(I will be offering the following course next year.  It has just been
expanded by our department from a half to a full course.)

FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY (second year, full course)
Dr. Pamela Banting      <pbanting@uwovax.uwo.ca>
English Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA
(to be implemented 1992-93)

This course will introduce some of the issues important to the development
of feminist literary studies, among them questions relating to the race,
class and gender of authors and readers; subjectivity; voice; history;
canonicity; feminist poetics; fiction-theory; feminism and poststructuralist
thought; men in feminism; and writing the body.  Readings for the course
will include texts from the Canadian, American and French contexts.

Texts

Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard and Eleanor Wachtel, eds.  Language in Her
Eye: Writing and Gender: Views by Canadian Women Writing in English.
Toronto: Coach House P, 1990.

Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds. New French Feminisms: An
Anthology. Schocken 1981.

Elaine Showalter, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women,
Literature and Theory.  Pantheon, 1985.

Gloria Anzaldua, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and
Critical Perspectives by Women of Color.  Aunt Lute, 1990.

Alice Jardine and Paul Smith, eds. Men in Feminism.  Methuen, 1987.

Linda J. Nicholson, ed. Feminism/Postmodernism.  Routledge, 1990.

And a book, forthcoming any day, which I am considering:  D.H. Currie, ed.
Anatomy of Gender.  Oxford UP, 1992.

Readings of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, as required.
Readings from the Canadian feminist writing and theory journal Tessera.