{"id":11031,"date":"2025-06-03T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11031"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:52:59","slug":"feminist-and-cross-cultural-readings","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/summer-2023\/feminist-and-cross-cultural-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Arts and Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-7b06dec6\">\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b1648cf9 gb-headline-text\"><em>Feminist and Cross-Cultural Readings of<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Women\u2019s Arts and Literature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#iman-al-ghafari-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iman Al-Ghafari<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How do women\u2019s arts and literature convey new meanings of body, identity, morality, and sexuality? This culturally diverse course provides an insight into feminist, lesbian, and queer theories and a comprehensive analysis of the achievements of female artists and writers from various races and cultures. Women\u2019s poems, songs, films, interviews, photographs, memoirs, documentaries, short stories, and fine arts will be analyzed from a feminist, lesbian, and cross-cultural perspective that exposes the dynamics of power relations in different cultures. Diverse disciplines, such as the visual, literary, and performing arts, are employed to enable the participants to explore the concept of the gaze both as readers and as viewers and to recognize the limitations of modernist and post-modernist modes of looking, writing, and doing in intercultural contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course is divided into fifteen lectures that integrate many themes and engage with various theoretical and cultural debates about the female body, pleasure, desire, girlhood, womanhood, motherhood, housework, nudity, femininity, sexuality, beauty, home, exile, gender norms, and lesbian love. It encompasses a wide selection of works by African, American, Arab, English, French, Indian, Irish, Mexican, Swedish, Portuguese, and Turkish female poets, writers, and artists. References are made to Audre Lorde\u2019s \u2018erotic as power,\u2019 Adrienne Rich\u2019s \u2018lesbian continuum,\u2019 Julia Kristeva\u2019s \u2018semiotics,\u2019 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous\u2019 \u2018\u00e9criture f\u00e9minine,\u2019 Luce Irigaray\u2019s \u2018female jouissance,\u2019 Judith Butler\u2019s \u2018gender performativity,\u2019 and Rosi Braidotti\u2019s \u2018nomadic subject.\u2019 The interdisciplinary approach of the course will enable participants to break down the barriers between disciplines and cultures and to gain a broad understanding of female creativity and the resistance against patriarchal hegemony.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div 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