Listed in: Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-300
Amrita Basu (Section 01)
This seminar will explore the influence of gender studies and of feminism on our research questions, methods and the way we situate ourselves in relationship to our scholarship. For example, how can we employ ethnography, textual analysis, empirical data and archival sources in studying the complex ties between the local and the global, and the national and the transnational? Which ideas and methods are best suited to analyzing the varied forms of women’s resistance across ideological, class, racial and national differences? Our major goal will be to foster students' critical skills as inter-disciplinary, cross cultural writers and researchers. This course counts as a proseminar designed for juniors and seniors in SWAGS.
Requisite: SWAG 100 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 20 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Basu.
If Overenrolled: Priority to SWAGS majors
Cost: $35 ?
Section 01
W 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM CLAR 100
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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Doing Feminist Research in Political and Social Science | MPS 2010 | Brooke Ackerly & Jacqui True | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader | Paradigm 2013 | Alison Jaggar | 2nd Edition | Amherst Books | TBD | |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Random House 2014 | Katherine Boo | Paperback edition | Amherst Books | TBD | |
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City | Picador 2015 | Alice Goffman | Purchase this book and read before first class on 9/7 | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.