FEMINIST POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how contemporary feminist theorists understand "politics" including the meaning of political oppression and political resistance. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the key tensions and contradictions that undergird how contemporary feminist theorists understand political oppression and political resistance. Audience: Graduate 3. Critically interrogate how these understandings shape and are shaped by racism, patriarchy, classism, and other hierarchies of power. Audience: Graduate 4. Apply feminist political theorizing to their own, independent intellectual projects. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how contemporary feminist theorists understand "politics" including the meaning of political oppression and political resistance. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the key tensions and contradictions that undergird how contemporary feminist theorists understand political oppression and political resistance. Audience: Graduate 3. Critically interrogate how these understandings shape and are shaped by racism, patriarchy, classism, and other hierarchies of power. Audience: Graduate 4. Apply feminist political theorizing to their own, independent intellectual projects. Audience: Graduate