We will thematize the questions of what constitutes feminist perspectives and processes and how to make class curricula more thoroughly and rigorously multicultural. Authors to be studied include bell hooks, Adrienne Rich, Jane Tompkins, et al. Each participant will be required to compose a detailed syllabus of a class she might teach as a graduate instructor and to present the syllabus to the group. The Women's Studies Colloquium series is designed to encourage feminist scholarship and support the work of feminist scholars both across disciplinary boundaries and within disciplines, and to develop an intellectual community. Invited faculty and graduate students speak on a wide variety of topics from numerous feminist and theoretical perspectives.
Attendance is mandatory.
Your grade will be based on thoughtful questions and discussion following the speaker's presentation. It is your responsibility to sign the weekly class roll. The colloquia are free and open to the public. This course will examine the writings of the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement, in the context of recent studies of postwar U.S. culture, the civil rights and anti-war movements in particular, and second wave feminist organizing internationally. We will consider as well the ways in which the texts of the Women's Liberation Movement were shaped by formal choices and, in turn, shaped the structures of argument as well as analyses within feminisms for the next three decades.