Feminist Theory

Catalog description

This course surveys several feminist frameworks for thinking about gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, and oppression, including a consideration of the ways in which gender has left its mark on literary history and culture. Readings may include poetry, short fiction, speeches, and critical essays in American feminist theory. We will start with key figures in the nineteenth century and work our way through the twentieth century. This seminar will give students speculative instruments to help to see more in a reading, event or pattern than they would see without the lens of feminist theory.