WGST
300.01
(Same as ENGL 352, INTL 300, and HMCS 394)
ADVANCED FEMINIST/QUEER THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Professor Sonita Sarker
T/TH 1:00-2:30 pm
OLD MAIN 009
Syllabus
THE COURSE:
There have been many -isms that have changed the way humans think.
Examples? (A)theism, Feminism, Marxism . . . Two that are still
being debated are “Postmodernism” and “Postcolonialism” in
their various forms in science, politics, economy, art, architecture,
literature and other cultural practices. This course will introduce
a few participants in those discussions, and we will make our own
sense of these -isms that have become philosophies in some circles
(not all)
of the world. The fundamental goal will be to understand the intersections
of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism with each other and with Feminism,
noting the convergences and divergences of each from the other. Texts
include writings by Buchi Emecheta, Linda Nicholson, Jacques Derrida,
bell hooks, Anthony Appiah, Helene Cixous, Michel Foucault, Deleuze
and Guattari, Trinh Minh-ha, Chandra Mohanty, Jacques Lacan, Leila
Sebbar, Rakesh Ratti, Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak, as well as
films and music for a transnational comparative study.
Contact us:
wgs@macalester.edu
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · 651-696-6318
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