GWS 501

Drawing of a brain with the right hemisphere in black and white and the left hemisphere with multiple bright colors filled in.

Feminist Theories. 4 hours. Heading link

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