Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0221 - What is Feminist Aesthetics?

What links aesthetics to gender and sexuality, along with other intersecting differences? Course in philosophy, feminist studies, and art theory examines notions such as disinterested attention, queering, and aesthetic experience, and invites students to ask what broadened aesthetic perspectives on things like information flows, food, humor, activism, everyday objects, agency, the erotic, and the state might look like. Discussion of feminist art practices alongside theoretical texts (from Hume, Kant & Adorno to contemporary interlocutors).

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend 7-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.