FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr K E Jones

Dr K E Jones
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Module Staff

Dr K Jones

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Module description

What does it mean to write as a woman? What does it mean to write as a particular woman in a specific place, at a specific time? What, if anything, does the term 'women's writing' actually mean, and do we still need it? This module introduces students to some of the most important approaches to French feminist theory and literary studies since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi?me sexe in 1949. It then goes on to consider four novels by women writers publishing between the 1970s and the present, asking to what extent they can be read in terms of feminist theory, and how their representation of the social, cultural and artistic position of being a woman and a writer changes with the times.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS FR2202

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1-hour lecture, 1-hour seminar and 1 surgery hour.