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Usual instructor: Dr. Laurel Bollinger
Focused on the question "What is an American Self?", the course addresses both issues of race and gender. Relevant to women's studies are units on the development of the "New Woman" in fiction, and the development of women's poetic voices as a response to the emphasis on personae in the Modernist period. Although specific content may shift from year to year, the course will always include an approximately even balance of male and female writers, with consistent attention to the expression of gender as a literary concern.
This counts as the elective in the Women's Studies minor.