This course focuses on significant feminist interventions to social theories within the distinct but interrelated spheres of the economic, political, social and sexual. You will be trained in the diversity of the field of feminist theory, including its debates, theoretical contributions and analytical tools. You will also receive knowledge and skills about gender analytically and contextually, and of how gender in various ways always is inflected by race, class and sexuality.

A critical reading of the field of gender studies (by way of transnational and postcolonial feminist theory, gay and lesbian/queer studies and poststructural feminist scholarship) will be at the core of the course, enabling you to acquire theoretical depth and methodological skills and to expand your competencies in four general domains: work, family, politics and culture. More specifically, the course will treat the following arenas of feminist debate:

•     theorising gender, feminism and social theory
•     engendering history and society
•     rethinking gender, sex and sexuality
•     globalisation and gender

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