C Chicana and Latina Feminisms

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Term hours: 54 lecture. This course utilizes Chicana/x and Latina/x feminist scholarship to examine topics and issues that include race and gender politics, sexuality, immigration, mother/parenthood, the family, health, spirituality, art, cultural production, and activism with an emphasis on the 1960s to the present. Students are introduced to the origins, early issues, ongoing movements, and causes of Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms; the founding of Chicana and Latina Studies as an academic field; fundamental theories and major debates within the field; and tools and strategies Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms offer those interested in self-determination and liberation. (UC/CSU, AA GE, CalGETC).