Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 300qf - Seminar: Topics in the Study of Women and Gender-Writing Against Erasure: Abortion, Adoption and Queer Family-Making

Whether Shere Hite’s report on women’s sexual experiences, Alice Walker’s search for the unmarked grave of Zora Neale Hurston, or Ann Fessler’s social history of pre-Roe “maternity homes,” generations of feminist writers have made it their life’s work to unearth silenced and erased histories. This writing seminar uses the Smith archives, engages with Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulations” to address gaps in institutional knowledge, and conducts field interviews to contribute original work to the feminist project of truth-telling and the repair of the collective memory. Prerequisite: SWG 150. Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only. Enrollment limited to 12. (E)

[CE] JR/SR only