Crosslisting Courses with WGSS
Feminisms Today Speaker Series
Honor Theses/Senior Projects
Intersections Newsletter
Opportunities for Students
Links
FAQ
|
 |
WGSS COURSES
WGSS 220.01
Icons, Ideas, Instruments: Feminist Reconstructions - Socialism (Same as ENGL 294.02)
Professor Sonita Sarker
TR 9:40 - 11:10 AM
MAIN 009
Syllabus
Readings for 10/7 - 10/14/08:
Althusser: "Ideology interpellates individuals as subjects"
de Beauvoir: Reading
Gramsci: "America"
Head: Chapters 2 and 3
Luxembourg: "The Junius Pamphlet "
Woolf: "Chapter 3"
THE COURSE:
Karl Marx is an icon. Socialism is an idea. A labor union is an instrument. How have feminisms interpreted such figures, concepts, and tools to propose new ways of thinking and acting? This course studies how various feminisms have been informed by and have responded to both prominent and marginalized 20th century thinkers and movements. It focuses on icons such as Antonio Gramsci, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Arundhati Roy, and Paolo Freire, among others. It analyses the implications of ideas such as hegemony, anarchism, racialism, gender-transgression, colonialism, and pedagogy, to name a few. It evaluates the past, current, and future force of political instruments such as the nation-state, civil society, armed repression and revolt, and cultural instruments such as memoirs, pamphlets, novels, films, and art.
| |
