GWS 501

Feminist Theories. 4 hours.
Course Description
Significant trends in the analysis of gender and sexuality, and the intersection of those trends with analyses of power, difference, and equality. Historical and contemporary, national and non-U.S. based critiques of identity, agency, representation.
Past Texts
Fatima El-Tayeb, European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Post-national Europe
Jian Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
Imani Perry, Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Sami Schalk, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction