Gender Studies 221TR - Feminist and Queer Theory: 'Feminist Transnationalities'
Feminist Transnationalities
Fall
2024
01
4.00
Sandra Russell
TTH 10:30AM-11:45AM
Mount Holyoke College
125314
Shattuck Hall 107
russell@mtholyoke.edu
This course explores recent histories, contexts, debates, and representations of feminist thought and movement across national, political, and cultural domains. Through engagement with narrative, ethnographic, and artistic sources, we consider how coalitions and solidarities have been built, in resistance to gendered and racialized oppressions, that not only challenge dominant feminist discourses but also reimagine possibilities for antiracist and anticolonial worldmaking. Topics include Black feminist internationalism, Marxist and socialist feminisms, migration and the politics of borders, trans inclusivity, as well as critiques of binaries such as west/east, local/global, and victim/agent.
Prereq: GNDST-101.