Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This course will analyze and compare major feminist social and political theories, including those that have emerged from liberal, socialist and radical feminist traditions. The relationship among theories of sexism and political goals and practices will be discussed.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course will analyze and compare major feminist social and political theories, including those that have emerged from liberal, socialist and radical feminist traditions. The relationship among theories of sexism and political goals and practices will be discussed.

Feminist theories are descriptive, prescriptive, and speculative: they describe the worlds in which we live, prescribe how we might or must live otherwise, and imaginatively enact the other worlds we hope to create. This course is a rigorous examination of the ways feminists in North America and globally have worked across various intellectual, artistic, activist, and intimate contexts to understand the operations of power and explore the possibilities of freedom. We will begin with a series of framing questions and key texts that invite us to ask: what is feminist theory, who and what is the subject of feminism, and how might we practice feminist thinking and making in this seminar space? We will spend the rest of the term considering how feminists have differently approached the same matters of concern and interrogating the stakes of how we describe, build, and create feminist presents and futures. Topics will include: race/ethnicity and definitions of the human; gender and sexuality; reproduction, kinship, and family; marriage and property; labor and class; justice and abolition; health and disability; science and technology; environment, food, and the more-than-human.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: https://www.sfu.ca/gsws/graduate/courses/goals

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Materials

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