Spring 2013

Feminist Theory

Faculty

Krupa Shandilya (Section 01)

Description

In this course we will investigate contemporary feminist thought from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We will focus on key issues in feminist theory, such as the sex/gender debate, sexual desire and the body, the political economy of gender, the creation of the "queer" as subject, and the construction of masculinity, among others. This course aims also to think through the ways in which these concerns intersect with issues of race, class, the environment and the nation. Texts include feminist philosopher Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, anthropologist Kamala Visweswaran's Fictions of Feminist Ethnography, and feminist economist Bina Agarwal's The Structure of Patriarchy.

Spring semester. Professor Shandilya.

WAGS 200 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM JOCH 202
Th 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM JOCH 202

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022