Feminist Theory

Description:

Through interdisciplinary and intersectional frameworks, this course will explore concepts and ideologies that articulate and define principles of feminism. We will read and view texts that challenge the centrality of gender in feminist analyses through intersections of race, class, nationality, sexuality, and empire. We will also reconstitute the political agenda of feminism as we apply a global perspective on women's lives and blur the lines between theory and practice, academia and policy, grassroots organizing and public media.

Course Goals and Learning Outcomes:

This course will parallel departmental goals and objectives in that students will:

1. integrate diverse studies through an interdisciplinary framework – such as connecting sciences with philosophy or creative arts with public policy.

2. dismantle the intersecting ideologies of racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, imperialism, etc.

3. conceptualize feminist social justice beyond gender equity and toward community and human dignity.

4. fully participate in the teaching process as active learners, peer educators, and public scholars.