Rethinking Female Aggression The New School for General Studies, Bachelor’s Program. Advanced level course Description: What is female aggression? In response to traditional aggression research that argues that female aggression is nonexistent and scientific as well as popular representations that pathologize aggressive women, feminist scholarship has produced a rich body of scholarship on women and aggression, which foregrounds the positive aspects of female aggression. We review feminist aggression research (Bjoerkqvist/Francek/Lindfors) and feminist psychoanalyses (Benjamin/Fast/Chodorow), as well as newer feminist scholarship on women aggression, rooted in postmodern and interactionist theory (Grossmass, Leeb). We also analyze representations of aggressive women in film (including Le Dernier Tango a Paris/Thelma and Louise/She Devil) and feminist scholarship about the representation of aggressive women in popular culture (including Hart). How do these works define and explain female aggression? What is the theoretical basis upon which they base their arguments? Do they consider cultural, class, racial, and sexual aspects of female aggression? Do their arguments enhance or impede our understanding of women and aggression? REQUIREMENTS SYLLABUS BACK HOMERequirement%20Aggr..htmlSyllabus%20Aggr.%20.htmlTeaching.htmlHome.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3