Explores founding texts of contemporary feminist theory, asking questions about identity, knowledge, sexuality, and ethics. Such works have emerged in relation to a variety of theoretical discourses, such as Marxism, structuralism, cultural studies, and others. Examines the intellectual history of feminist theory and its resonance with more recent trends.
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Introduces historical, theoretical, behavioral, philosophical, scientific, multi- and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and its meanings, exploring its disciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and implications.
Learn more about this courseThis course provides for graduate students' intensive independent study of specific topics.
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This course focuses on queer of color contributions to intellectual and social struggles for liberation at the intersection of race, sexuality, class, and gender self-determination. We will examine the emergence of “queer of color” as an identity category and an analytic in the United States from the 1960s to the present with concentrated attention on the 1990s.
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Research methodologies and approaches relevant to Gender Studies are explored, and students apply them to a particular scholarly project.
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Interrogates debates concerning globalization and gender. Focuses on how gender shapes and is shaped by the flow of money, people, and culture that characterize “globalization.” How is gender influenced by geographic dislocations and re-routings? How are women and men situated as agents and subjects of global change?
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This course is designed to offer advanced graduate students an intensive exposure to the theories, practices, and processes of academic publishing and professionalism, with a specific focus on gender studies as a discipline. In general, the course offers students a practical structure for such professional activities as writing abstracts for conferences and grants, turning a seminar paper into a publishable article, approaching editors of journals and presses, writing job letters, compiling CV's and teaching portfolios, giving conference papers and job talks, and applying for grants, post-docs, and faculty positions.
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