This course is designed as an introduction to the new feminist scholarship on women. This is an interdisciplinary course which acquaints students with key concepts and theoretical frameworks to analyze women s condition. We explore how women s status has changed over time, but we concentrate on the situation of contemporary American women.
Students also examine how capitalism, racism, imperialism, and heterosexism affect women s lives.
The course not only provides students with an analysis of women s oppression, but suggests strategies for ending sexual inequality.