Ms. Celerier, Ms. Moon. Two 75-minute sessions. Two 75-minute periods. This course explores the politics of gender and visual representation in relation to colonial and postcolonial histories. Centrally, the class inquires into the status of the visual within wider systems of knowledge and power.
Primary materials used are texts, films, and reproductions.
Ms. Kane Two 75-minute periods. This course explores the inter-relation of gender and key spatial forms and practices such as the home, the city, the hotel, migration, shopping, community activism and walking at night. The course draws on feminist theoretical work from diverse fields such as geography, architecture, anthropology and urban studies not only to begin to map the gendered divisions of the social world but also to understand gender itself as a spatial practice. Two 75-minute periods. This course is an introduction to feminist environmentalism as a political movement and an emerging critical field.