Seminar in Feminist Theory

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This course explores the diverse ways that feminist theorists conceptualize gender in society, systems of inequality and the category of "women" itself. Students will gain an understanding of evolving ideas and debates in feminist theory, relate those feminist practice, and develop their own theoretical and analytical writing abilities. The course will address the social construction of gender, the relation between feminist theory and activism, and how feminist have responded to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary feminist thinking, as well as in classic feminist texts.