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Gender Lecture Series Spring 24: What's So Wrong With Women Reading?
Friday, March 22, 2024 12pm to 1:30pm
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The School of Interdisciplinary Studies Gender Studies Program presents the Spring 2024 installment of the Gender Lecture Series, "What's So Wrong With Women Reading?" presented by Dr. Yung-Hsing Wu.
Patriarchy has a long history of mistrusting women readers — they are said to read poorly, to exhibit poor taste in their reading choices, to be too impressionable. What do we make of the fact that feminism has historically exhibited a similar ambivalence?
In this talk, Dr. Wu argues that reading was represented in second-wave feminist popular fiction as both a figure for transformation and a site of anxiety. The consciousness-raising novel that gave the women’s liberation movement a public face did so with a plot arc that disappears women’s reading lives. Ironically, the genre also prompted feminist concern that fiction might be precisely the reason that women readers’ politicization would go unrealized.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Yung-Hsing Wu is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she teaches feminist theory and print culture. She is the author of a forthcoming book from the University of Massachusetts Press called Closely and Consciously: Reading the U.S. Women’s Liberation Movement. She explains, “I spend too much time thinking about reading and identification, about which I have written in a variety of contexts, including what Gayatri Spivak has called the cult of Jane Eyre, what it feels like to be an ethnic academic token, and the impossible judgements Toni Morrison demands of her readers in her novels Sula and Beloved. This talk is one result of that thinking, which is at the core of Closely and Consciously.”
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- Kyle Lee
- 972-883-2817
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