Undergraduate Course: Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 (HIAR10084)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course focuses on representations and perceptions of gender, sexuality and the body in medieval England and France. Seminars will address the following themes: motherhood and the maternal; gender and sexuality in celibate communities; monsters and the monstrous; masculinity and warfare; flesh vs. spirit; metaphorical vs. actual; fetish; fragmentation and the gaze. While we will explore multiple approaches to these issues, emphasis will be placed on interweaving the following three strands: the art object, historical context and theory. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyse artworks within specific theoretical discussions of the body, maternity, monstrosity, queer theory, post-colonialism, materiality, performance and the gaze.
- Explain signficant shifts in social, political and theological perceptions of gender.
- Exemplify specific approaches to gender through specific case studies.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and art historical contexts of various case studies.
- Explain significant developments in gender literature, theories and methodologies applicable to medieval studies from the 1980s until present.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Hope Doherty-Harrison
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Course secretary | Mr Nathan Ross-Hammond
Tel: (0131 6)51 5880
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