Section Info: GNDST-221QF-01

Course Title: Feminist and Queer Theory: 'Feminist and Queer Theory'
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
Description: We will read a number of key feminist texts that theorize sexual difference, and challenge the oppression of women. We will then address queer theory, an offshoot and expansion of feminist theory, and study how it is both embedded in, and redefines, the feminist paradigms. This redefinition occurs roughly at the same time (1980s/90s) when race emerges as one of feminism's prominent blind spots. The postcolonial critique of feminism is a fourth vector we will examine, as well as anti-racist and postcolonial intersections with queerness. We will also study trans-theory and its challenge to the queer paradigm.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Sarah Stefana Smith             sarahstefanasmith@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Seminar   Tuesday and Thursday   10:30AM - 11:45AM   SHTK - Shattuck Hall   319   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: GNDST-101. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
POLIT-THRY   POLIT-THRY: Politics - Theory subfield   This course has been approved to count towards the Theory subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses).  
EOS-4   EOS-4: Global and Cultural Intersections   This course has been approved to count towards the EOS minor in Area 4: Global and Cultural Intersections  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought major   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 18     Available: 0     Waitlist: 1
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.