WGS.700

Feminist and Queer Theories

3-0-9 units · Graduate

An interdisciplinary seminar aiming to familiarize students with the core texts and key debates that have shaped feminist and queer theories. Syllabi vary depending on instructors.

Spring 2017 · Changing Life: Reading the Intersections of Gender, Race, Biology, and Literature

Topics

Project 1 : What does it cost to establish knowledge in a certain place at a certain time for a certain people?
Project 2 : Science and literature exploring life on the near-future earth
Project 3 : Genomic citizens and misfits in a digital age
Project 4 : Plans for practice

Readings

Gross, Alan G. Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies . Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780809326969.
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Hiltner, Ken. Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader . Routhledge, 2014. ISBN: 9780415508605.
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Buy at MIT Press Hackett, Edward J., Olga Amsterdamska, et al. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies . The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780262083645. ↗
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Wyer, Mary, Mary Barbercheck, et al. Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies . Routledge, 2013. ISBN:9780415521109.
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Recommended as a source for the process side of the course:
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Taylor, Peter J., and Jeremy Szteiter. Taking Yourself Seriously: Processes of Research and Engagement . (PDF) The Pumping Station, 2012. ISBN: 9780984921607. ↗
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Must apply to the Graduate Consortium in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality G (Fall, Spring) 3-0-9 units

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2017
MIT OCW calendar ↗
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.