Feminism is a social movement concerned with women's emancipation.
The movement, not unsurprisingly, has splintered and stumbled most over issues that are in myriad ways connected to race and class. We will make use of the recently available memoirs of early radical activists as well as a range of theoretical and some popular writing to pursue these questions. The following books can be purchased at The Regulator Bookstore on 9th Street in Durham. Requirements You are required to attend class fully prepared to discuss the day's readings. In your response you may decide to scrutinize a set of relations a particular writer draws, or begin to develop a counterargument to one advanced in the readings.