Course Info: CSI-0326

For decades now feminists have insisted on the importance of thinking about science, nature, and embodiment to understanding the worlds in which we live and to imagining other worlds. In this course we use "feminism's sciences" to refer to the sciences feminists have critiqued, revised, reinterpreted, and reclaimed as well as to those feminist knowledge-making projects that have been excluded from the definition of science. The class draws wide parameters of feminist sciences to include epistemological, methodological, conceptual, metaphysical, and other critical-creative insights of a wide range of feminist theories and projects. We read about feminist concerns with knowledge, power, and embodiments to explore possibilities for a contemporary queer feminist materialist science studies. This class is reading and research intensive. We explored rich debates in feminist theories of science and materiality over the last several decades and today. Students practiced interdisciplinary research as well as developing both written and oral communication skills. Feminism’s Sciences was a reading-intensive seminar where students engaged critical theory in weekly reading responses and rigorous class participation, including discussions and in-class assignments. In addition, each student worked with a small group on a presentation mid-semester and completed a final independent research-based project.