GWS 305

Dr. Adam Geary

Gender & Women’s Studies

Course Description:

1. In this course, we will engage major authors and concepts in feminist theory.  Our emphasis will be on the social experience and regulation of gender in its intersections with race, class, sexuality, economy, and nation.  The goal of the course is to “do theory” — rather than “knowing” or “mastering” it — so as to enable you to develop your own, critical relation to contemporary social relations and political movements. Thus, no attempt will be made to survey the entire field of feminist theory, even were such a survey possible in one semester (which it isn’t!).  Instead, I hope that you come away from the class with a “tool kit” of concepts, authors, problems, and statements to develop your own feminist theoretical and political analyses.
   

2. Readings by Audre Lorde, Kimberle Crenshaw, bell hooks, Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Andrea Smith, Dorothy Roberts, Laura Kipnis, Lisa Duggan, Judith Butler, and others.
   

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