FEMINIST THEORY
Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rachel Aumiller
Info - 4 points
HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QUESTNS
This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and
sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which
these systems of power have operated. Beginning in the early modern period, the
course seeks to destabilize contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and instead
probe how race, sexuality, and gender have functioned as mechanisms of differentiation
embedded in historically contingent processes. Moving from “Caliban to Comstock,”
students will probe historical methods for investigating and critically evaluating claims
about the past. In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the
intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of
identity by marginalized groups. This semester, we will engage research by historians
of sexuality, gender, and capitalism to critically reflect on the relationship between
critical studies of the past and debates about reproductive justice, bodily autonomy, and
gay and lesbian rights in our contemporary moment.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Salonee Bhaman
Info - 4 points
GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP
GENDER&POWER TRANSNATL PERSP
This course considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist and queer movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered and sexual inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist and queer politics, and human rights. If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine the relationship between gender, sexuality, and powerful institutions like the state? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of nationalism and in the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender, sexuality, and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the academy, the home, religious institutions, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender and sexuality as lenses through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and subjectivities.
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonia Ahsan
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RSRCH I
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Instructor:
Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 1-4 points
THEORETICAL PARADIGMS
REFRAMING GENDER VIOLENCE GLOB
Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Scholarship:
Course focuses on the current theoretical debates of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students, with preference given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 4 points
GRAD STUDENT & FACULTY COLLOQ
FEMINIST PEDAGOGY
This is a course is oriented to graduate students who are thinking about issues in teaching in the near and distant future and want to explore forms of pedagogy. The course will ask what it means to teach “as a feminist” and will explore how to create a classroom receptive to feminist and queer methodologies and theories regardless of course theme/content. Topics include: participatory pedagogy, the role of political engagement, the gender dynamics of the classroom, modes of critical thought and disagreement. Discussions will be oriented around student interest. The course will meet 4-5 times per SEMESTER (dates TBD) and the final assignment is to develop and workshop a syllabus for a new gender/sexuality course in your field. Because this course is required for graduate students choosing to fulfill Option 2 for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies at IRWGS, priority will be given to graduate students completing the certificate.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
FEMINIST THEORIES OF REPRESNTN
FEMINIST THEORIES OF REPRESTN
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Povinelli
CULPA: 14
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- 4 points