Through the analysis of literature and film this seminar studies the multiple subjectivities and different cultural geographies that produce the category “women”. Our focus will be on the body, food and eating disorders, female authorship and agency, women’s work, friendship, and solidarity.

Readings by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Banana Yoshimoto, Sayaka Murata, Jeannette Winterson, Annie Ernaux, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Audre Lorde, Silvia Federici, Susan Bordo.

Films by Agnes Varda (The Gleaners and I), the Dardennes brothers (Rosetta), Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Xavi Sala (Guied’ani’s Navel), Celine Sciamma (Girlhood), Todd Haynes (Safe), Chantal Akerman.