Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture

[formerly 'Women In Art']

Fall 2007

Prof. Joanna Inglot

Course description: This course will examine the ways in which gender and sexuality are understood in contemporary visual culture and it will survey a wide range of feminist approaches by women artists working in modern and contemporary art. We will explore social constructions of gender and sexualities, and their visible and invisible representation, with emphasis on ways that power is enacted in the realm of the visual. Students will also engage in the examination of current global feminist trends and new directions in the feminist culture since 1990s through the present, including the work of contemporary women artists from Africa, India, Asia and Eastern and Central Europe and various marginalized cultural centers in Western Europe and the United States. This course is cross-listed with WGSS. Course materials will be drawn from multiple disciplines including the social sciences, history, feminist theory, queer theory, cultural studies, and art history. Working across these fields of study, this course will enable students to draw upon multiple academic sources as they seek deepened understanding of the complexity of gender,