WGS 3100 - Feminist Theories in Action

Credits: 4

This course is designed to broaden and to deepen students’ knowledge and understanding of feminist theories and their application with a focus on the intersections between gender-based oppression and struggles as well as other forms of oppression and struggles for justice and equality. Students will master the vocabulary to discuss major concepts, themes, and debates in feminist scholarship and explore the relationship between theorizing about gender and other inequalities and struggles for social justice and the strategies used to promote social change. Students will also examine differences, tensions, and conflicts among feminist and feminist theories, as we focus on understanding movements that highlight intersections between gender-based oppression and struggles and other forms of oppression and movements for justice and equality. Students will then apply the theories they learn to a semester-long praxis project, engaging with the campus community and beyond.

Fulfills: SOSC, D in LS Core.
Note: Not required for the Women’s and Gender Studies Major.