CRT4750

Deconstruction and feminism

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2002

Claire Colebrook

12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton

Synopsis: The writings of Jacques Derrida and their relevance to issues in contemporary feminist theory. Topics include his earliest deconstructive concepts (the trace, writing, dissemination, the sign); his texts where he deals with the concept or metaphor of woman (woman as truth, woman as metaphor, sexual difference); the ways his work has been utilised and criticised in contemporary feminist and political theory (eg through the work of Gayatri Spivak, Vicki Kirby, Dianne Elam and others).

Assessment: One or two essays (9000 words total): 100%