The feminist theory and criticism of literature from its inception identified the project of feminist writing as the rewriting of the body. The basic premise of this approach was that the body was the direct site for the control and supervision of the cultural order and that writing about the body  (in the range of criticism that would reveal and trace the ways of control embedded in the body and disguise themselves as natural, and until it became a site of protest and refusal)  will suggest the possibility of extricating the female destiny sealed in the body /as a body from its subordinate positions within the order, and write to it as well as to the 'order' new possibilities.

During the course we will read theoretical texts dealing with the issue of the female body from different perspectives. In the light of these texts we will think about the manner of poetic representation of the female body in the literature of women from Israel and the world.

Students are required to participate in all the class meetings; to read all course materials as they are detailed in the syllabus; to write a final.

The final grade will be determined by the grade of the final paper.