ARENAS FOR FEMINIST THOUGHT: TOUCHY SUBJECTS, UNSETTLED MATTERS AND FEMINIST RESPONSE-ABILITY      3 Credit Hours

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A multi-layered inquiry into the substantial discursive project initially undertaken by feminists to break the hold of dominant theory and begin to articulate theory from new standpoints expressed in new language. This course opens an arena within which to study real engagements of thinkers, theorists, their thoughts, theories, arguments, critical appraisals, etc. as they have emerged, developed and contended. The course coheres in a sense of feminist thinkers as profoundly responsive to their contexts, situated in times, places and atmospheres powerfully infused with settled and unsettled meanings.