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Powerful &/but wicked - Representing women between monstrification and empowerment

The course investigates the discursive construction of powerful women through language and cultural representation drawing connections between the Renaissance and contemporary popular culture in the UK. More specifically, we will focus on the ways in which the body occupies a critical position in such discourses, as it is monstrified and vilified in the attempt to control and limit female agency, but at the same time it can also turn into a site of struggle and a point of departure to develop new forms of embodiment and empowerment through its (re)appropriation.