Course Info: CSI-0246
| Course | CSI-0246 Transnational Feminisms |
| Long Title | Transnational Feminisms |
| Term | 2024F |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 105 on T,TH from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Jina Fast |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 13 |
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| Additional Info | The content of this course deals with issues of race and power Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course critically engages a range of transnational feminist
theories, movements, and praxis to analyze structures of power
shaping people's lives in global and local contexts. By focusing
on African, Asian, South American, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern
feminisms, this course seeks to decenter a body of feminist
scholarship that often assumes shared visions of gender equality.
Such studies conceptualize gender issues and concerns through a
Eurocentric/colonial viewpoint by overlooking differences among
people with respect to race, class, sexuality/sexual orientation,
and nationality. Course readings explore the ethics of
cross-cultural knowledge production, activism, warfare,
commodification of women and queer peoples' bodies, sexualities,
and local resources. The main goals of the course are to expose
students to a broad range of feminist thought and action and
locate transnational feminist theories in relation to colonial
and post-colonial narratives. It urges students to examine their
own positions within global systems that connect the (often
uneven) exchange of persons, capital, and ways of knowing. Keywords:Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Postcolonial feminisms, African/a Philosophy |