WMST621

Feminist Theories and Women's Movements: Genealogies

Prerequisite: WMST400; or permission of ARHU-Women's Studies department. Examines theories to explain the matrix of domination from the nineteenth century to the present. Students learn the key debates that produceed new insights and shifted the ground of subsequent feminist theorizing within multi-racial feminisms. Examines those debates within global perspectives. Examines how dominant theoretical frameworks have been developed at specific historical moments.