Titel:
Great American Girls' Books

Fakultät:
Geisteswissenschaften

Semester:
Winter 2017

VeranstalterIn:
Dr. Melissa Knox-Raab

Termin:
Mo., 10:00-12:00 Uhr

Ort:
R12 R04 B11

Studiengang:
Anglistik

Zielgruppe:

Kommentar:
What is an American girl, and how does she develop into an American woman? This course will explore some answers to these questions by examining American ideals for girls and ideologies about them in a range of influential classic American novels written for girls and published between the mid-19th century and the present. The ways in which American culture creates or endorses certain traits in girls, sometimes contradictory ones —from the cult of domesticity with its perfect housewives and submissive mothers to the relative independence of the pioneer woman, from the good girl of the 1950s to the individualistic girl of the 1960s and after, influenced by Second and Third-Wave feminism—the American girl has grown up in unexpected ways. Why she is who she is, how she differs from girls from other nations, is the topic to be investigated in this course.