Spring 2017

Feminist Theory

Listed in: Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-200

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.

Open to first-year students who have taken SWAG 100 and upper-class students. Spring semester. Professor Shandilya.

SWAG 200 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM MORG 110
Th 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM MORG 110

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Feminist Theory Reader McGraw-Hill 2013 McCann & Kim Amherst Books TBD
2. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Mariner Books 2013 Alison Bechdel Amherst Books TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024