WGS
Courses
WGST
400.01
SENIOR SEMINAR: LINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE
--W-- 7:00-10:00
MAIN 001
Professor Sarker
SYLLABUS/READINGS
THE COURSE:
The questions that have been haunting you through many courses
will be addressed directly in this one: what are the links between
theory and practice? Where and how do they become linked? Do
they affect each other? How does all this relate to my life and how
will it help in my post-college experience? We’ll read economic,
political, cultural, and literary theories and practices—socialism,
capitalism, democracy, nationalisms, grassroots movements,
diaspora, (sur)realism, among others. We’ll study how theory and
practice define each other in the works of writers such as Rosa
Luxemburg, Jean Rhys, Nella Larsen, Gayatri Spivak, Joanna
Kadi, Catherine Eschle, Paula Moya, and Nancy Naples, to name a
few. Your own experiences in academia, organizational work, and
imagined professions will be part of our study. An affiliation,
membership, experience in a group of students, workers, or other
colleagues, while taking this course, is highly encouraged.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Alvarez, Julia. Yo!
Chesler, Phyllis. Letters to a Young Feminist.
Levine-Rasky, Cynthia, editor. Working Through Whiteness:
International Perspectives.
Ramazanoglu, Caroline and Janet Holland, eds. Feminist
Methodology: Challenges and Choices
