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Module C: Language and Values
Elective: Language and Gender

Texts:

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

John Tranter, Floor of Heaven

Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth

General links on Language and Gender

http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/lang/gender.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_gender

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies

Academic references: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/rsrc.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fJrlABsB6LcC&pg=PA155&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Suggested related matertial

Fiction

E M Forster, A Room with a View

Alice Walker, The Colour Purple

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Henry Handell Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

Bharati Mukerjee, Wife

Margaret Attwood, The Edible Wife

Leslie Cannold, The Book of Rachael

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Truman Capote, Breakfast At Tiffany's

Poetry

John Donne, Love Songs

Film

Albert Nobbs, dir. Rodrigo Garcia

The Kids are Alright, dir. Lisa Cholodenko

The Hours, dir. Stephen Daldry

Tootsie, dir. Sidney Pollack

Notes on a Scandal, dir. Richard Eyre

A Single Man, dir. Tom Ford

Precious, dir. Lee Daniels

Juno, dir. Jason Reitman

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, dir. Stephen Elliot

Transamerica, dir. Duncan Tucker

Plays

Caryl Churchill, Top Girls

Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party

John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

Alan Aykborne, Men on Women on Men

Tony Kushner, Angels in America

David Williamson, Dead White Males

Congeve, The Way of the World

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan

David Hare, The Hours

Graphic novels, comics

Wonder Woman