WGSS 8001 - Feminist Theories

3 Credit Hours
Description
Students will be exposed to feminist intersectional approaches to gender, race, class and sexuality. This course serves as an introduction to the spectrum of feminist theories and their intellectual contexts. Students will be exposed to theoretical projects such as liberalism/neoliberalism, marxism, post-structuralism/post-modernism, psychoanalytic theory, and post-colonial studies. Engagements and critiques of these theories may include but are not limited to womanism, black feminist thought, queer theory, ecofeminism, transnational feminism, marxist/socialist feminism, and psychoanalytic feminism.