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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines feminist research practices, focusing on methodological and epistemological questions in the field of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. It focuses on a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary feminist research methods with an emphasis on qualitative research methods. Topics to be addressed include: modernist and postmodernist feminist epistomologies and methodologies, positionality, feminist fieldwork, and researching "difference," inequality, and structures and ideologies of power.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines complementary stories of Native American women from different cultures and areas of the US. It focuses particularly on how Native American women create experimental narratives grounded in their cultures' oral traditions and place them in conversation with current feminist, womanist, postcolonial, and postmodern theories.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the multiple ways that ethnic women, usually facing the double oppression of racism and misogyny, create literature and theory expressing this common experience and revealing the contrasts among their different ethnic communities in the U.S. Ethnic women's literature will be examined through the lens of sex and gender and experimental narrative.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to use fiction to interrogate the label "third world," especially as it applies to the economic, historical, and cultural conditions of women in threatened African, Aboriginal Australian, Appalachian, and other communities. We will study the hybrid nature of fictional works and read them through contemporary womanist/feminist theoretical approaches.
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3.00 Credits
The fiction of African women reveals hybrid oral and literate aesthetics and differences in the traditional, colonial, and neo-colonial political, historical, and cultural experiences of authors from different African nations. This course examines the way literature produced by African women raises pertinent questions about polygamy, nationalism vs. feminism/womanism, female genital mutilation, political power, childbearing and rearing, guerrilla warfare, and HIV/AIDS.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes feminist theories of intersectional identity constructions based on gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality. It examines how the production of the very categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation are implicated in sustaining power relations.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores contemporary issues in feminist theory. Topics vary according to instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar provides a survey of transnational feminist theorizing, focusing on its development from multiple sources and contestations over its meanings. It will engage students in the problematics of cross-border theorizing about gender, race, class, and sexuality in national, regional and global contexts, and addresses the potentialities of cross-border solidarities for social justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the development of women's movements and feminist thought in the Americas, including in Latin America and North America. It addresses Latina feminisms in North America, Latin American feminisms, and transnational forms of political and social organizing.
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3.00 Credits
Using Movement documents, historical accounts, feminist theory, fiction and poetry, and feature and documentary film, this course examines the so-called Second Wave of feminism in the U.S. (1963-1982).
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