Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

WGST 501 - FEMINIST DEBATES

Long Title: FEMINIST DEBATES
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course identifies and traces three streams of thought by debates about major issues in women's studies. While the content of these streams will vary, the course will always be attentive to the historical and theoretical context of the debates in question and to the intersection of these debates with others. Topics might include: public and private spheres; the relation between the local and the global links between gender and sexuality; the problem of identity; the relation between activist and academic feminism.