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WGSS COURSES
WGSS 100.01(same as AMST 100.01)
Race, Class, and Sexuality in U.S. Feminisms
Visiting Instructor Rachel Raimist
TR 3:00-4:30 pm
OLRI 241
Syllabus
THE COURSE:
This course frames key issues, questions, and debates in feminist theory across disciplines. Through analytical reading, writing, and discussion this course engages feminist scholarship to discuss history, identity, ability, colonialism, and nationalism. Central to the course will be a focus on the social construction of identity, and the many ways in which gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, and nationality work to constitute experience. We will analyze sites of power, privilege, resistance, agency, and organizing in feminist work for social justice to develop understandings of gender as a tool to organize society based on difference and power. We will read scholarly texts, articles, view film and television programs, analyze media messages, and explore websites and popular culture to understand key ideas in U.S. feminisms. *First day attendance required.*
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