This course is designed to examine race, class, and gender as central categories in an analysis of social and economic inequalities. The emphasis, throughout the course, will be on understanding how these systems of oppression operate as an interactive and intersecting matrix of domination. In the end, students will have examined the complexity of multiple identities and oppressions in the context of broader social institutions and social change efforts. This course will cover a range of late twentieth century feminist theories, focusing particularly on work with a direct bearing on literary theory. This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community.
Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women s issues.
Times and meeting dates to be determined by instructor and student for variable credit hours. For graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Times and meeting dates to be determined by instructor and student for variable credit hours. This course is an evaluation of recent literature, research methods, and scholarship on women from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing particularly on the Humanities. This course disputes that assumption by focusing on black women's intellectual traditions.