GWSS 590 A: Special Topics

DECOLONIAL FEMINIST THEORY THIS COURSE EXAMINES CENTRAL THEMES AND QUESTIONS IN FEMINIST DECOLONIA THEORY AND POLITICS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND OCCUPATION (BOTH HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY) TO RACIAL, GENDER AND SEXUAL HIERARCHIES? HOW HAVE STRUGGLES FOR GENDER, RACIAL, INDIGENOUS, CASTE, AND SEXUAL JUSTICE CHALLENGED THESE HIERARCHIES? WHAT ARE DECOLONIAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO METHODOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PEDAGOGY? WHAT ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF STATE, FAMILY AND ECONOMICS HAVE EMERGED IN DECOLONIAL STRUGGLES? THROUGHOUT THE COURSE, WE WILL EXAMINE THE INTERPLAY OF GENDER, RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY, AND NATIONALITY IN RELATION TO THESE QUESTIONS.