6 Credits | Prof. Alvin WONG
This course provides an introduction to the history, ideologies, activism, and cultural productions related to feminism in both the North American contexts and globally. We will begin the course with classic feminist political statements by suffragists and feminist philosophers like Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Truth, and de Beauvoir while paying specific attention to the often neglected contribution by Black feminists. Conceptually, this course explores the multiple trajectories of feminism as they are mutually constituted by race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability and within the contexts of colonialism, imperialism, globalization, and empire. The later part of this course turns to questions and topics such as postmodernism, lesbianism, immigration, slavery and its afterlife, science, ecology, Asian feminism, #MeToo, and transnationalism. Through experimental and interactive learnings and assignments such as feminist blogging and manifesto, this course aims to build on existing vocabulary and debate in feminism, apply and complicate these questions in our daily lives, and imagine different feminist futures.
Assessment: 100% coursework.