Open to all undergraduates. This course uses small group discussion and development of supportive group norms to enable students to explore selected topics in women's studies as they apply to their own lives and to contemporary social issues. The course work includes large and small group activities, theoretical presentations, regularly assigned readings, and written assignments. There is strong emphasis on developing analytic tools - taking a critical stance with respect to one's experience, to social issues, and to the assigned readings.
Small groups meet in different campus locations, to be determined within each group.
Check Times, Location, and Availability 110. In this class, we will examine contemporary ideas about gender, explore the many ways that men and women are feminists, and discuss the place of feminism in our own lives. Since this is a course on practical feminism, we will spend the bulk of our time discussing feminist practice - evaluating the potential of collective as well as individual action. While we will certainly critique feminist institutions and activists, we will focus our discussions on our own creative struggles to work out new possibilities for feminism. The relationship between feminism and differences among women - sexuality, race, class, etc.