In this course we'll look at the ways in which female makers have explored the building and dismantling of self as well as the ways in which culture has read and defined the female subject as transgressive. What does it mean for a writer, a piece of writing, a formal strategy, a particular subject or point of view to be "transgressive"? How does transgression get defined and who defines it? How does it change across time and culture? How have writers and other makers explored the transgressing of social definitions and aesthetic boundaries? And how can we make use of some of these strategies to disrupt and stretch our own aesthetic practices? Throughout the semester we'll read the work of writers who have used language to resist what was expected of them (both as women and as writers) and examine how these writers have created art that disrupts prevailing social and aesthetic boundaries/definitions - and in doing so have created spaces in which new ideas about gender, art, and language can emerge.

Visit Workday to view this information.