Humanities and Philosophy Courses with Marian Staats

Humanities 142: Women and Creativity

This course is an interdisciplinary and multicultural survey exploring the creative endeavors of women in literature, film, art, and feminist philosophy. We will investigate the various meanings, processes and powers of women's creativity, looking specifically at how women have creatively resisted oppressive social circumstances to play vital roles in the shaping of our culture and asking how women's fictional narratives, films, visual art, and scholarship contribute to the shaping of our experiences, our desire, and our sense of ourselves as sexed and gendered subjects. The course will offer an historical overview of women's creativity, including such writers, filmmakers, and artists as Harriet Jacobs, Kate Chopin, Virginia Wolf, Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Cho, Marjane Satrapi, The Guerrilla Girls, Kara Walker, Dorothy Allison, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Students will actively participate in the creation of this class by selecting some of the course materials and developing their own creative projects.

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