TOPICS IN FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY

GEN&WS 444

Explores feminist theories from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives. Beginning with early feminist writings, to the significance of the Second Wave, examines consciousness raising, political pamphlets, personal manifestos, and the feminist ideology of the "personal is political." Explores work from Black feminist thought, queer theory, theory from disability studies, fat studies, ecofeminism, and transnational and global feminisms. Identifies and addresses crucial areas of contestation that punctuate the dynamic relationships among texts from past and present-the arrivals, departures, and returns-in feminist theory. Listens to voices that align and voices that dissent. Engages with the work of writers and thinkers from the past and bringing these ideas to our current cultural configurations and conceptualizations of feminism(s) and feminist movement(s).

GEN&WS 449

Investigation of specific theorists, themes, problems, or eras in feminist social and cultural theory. Course topic differs each semester. Course may be repeated with different topics.

GEN&WS 930

Research seminar on feminist theory.

GEN&WS 441

Contemporary theoretical positions and debates about feminisms in the humanities and social sciences.

GEN&WS/POLISCI 933

Focuses on how specific schools of feminist thought redefine the political, spanning historical and contemporary feminist political theory.