Women's Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music

G302 — Fall 2024

Instructor
Solimar Otero
Location
LIND 4
Days and Times
TR 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Course Description

This combined undergraduate and graduate course explores women's folklore. We engage with a range of cultures, locations, and practices that emphasize the central yet constructed nature of gender and sexuality. Topics include but are not limited to artistic creation, migration, trauma, family relations, the body, spirituality, and social movements. Course materials include fairytales, rituals, film, literature, visual art, and performance. Women¿s expressive culture from Kenya, Senegal, Japan, Cuba, the United States, Ancient Greece, France, (among other transnational cultural contexts), will be engaged with in this class.