ANTH 8935 - Critical Discourses in Feminism

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

What are some of the ethical and political issues within contemporary feminist thought/praxis How do critical discourses locate oppression and resistance as diverse and contradictory How is gender as discourse and practice contingent on class, race, power, gender, and sexuality; culture, memory, identity, desire, and experience; borders, nation-nationalisms, institutionalizations, and religion; violences; inevitable and uneven subjectivities How might gendered counter-memory contravene the present This course is situated within anthropologies of gender, interrogating the processes of social organization, cultural decentering, reassertion, and resignification to enable complex understandings of postcolonial social relations and political labor.

Credits:

2.00 - 3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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