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WGSS COURSES
WGSS 300.01
(same as ENGL 394.02)
Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies: Feminist Postcolonialism and Postmodernism
Professor Sonita Sarker
T/TH – 1:20-2:50 pm
OM 010
Syllabus
Readings for 10/7 - 10/14/08:
Appiah: "Is the 'Post' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post' in 'Postmodern?'"
hooks: "Postmodern Blackness"
Lotus: "Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History"
Foucault, Michel: "Lecture 1 and Lecture 2" pp. 78-92, 93-108
Ramazanoglu, Caroline: "Feminist Methodology"
Spivak: "Planetarity"
THE COURSE: 
This course is an in-depth study of some specific theories and methodologies on which contemporary feminist and queer thinkers have based their analysis, critique, and reconstruction of men's and women's roles. Some guiding questions are: What is a Nation? Who are its citizens? How do language and gender roles shape the ways we imagine our roles as men and women? Do sexuality or economy affect how we subscribe to or resist political ideologies? In previous offerings, the course has explored the intersection of Postcolonialism (gendered critiques of colonizing sociopolitical and economic structures) with Postmodernism (gendered critiques of language, sexuality, culture, and nation). The course will include film, photography, music, and the writings of Butler, Foucault, Chodorow, Kristeva, hooks, Spivak, and Trinh, among others. It offers ways to create links with local community and social-work organizations.
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