Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 391C - S-Feminist Childhood Studies

This course will draw on interdisciplinary scholarship to examine childhood from a feminist perspective. We will examine how the meanings, definition, and value associated with childhood have changed over time, as well as the contentious political valences surrounding the figure of the child and childhood. We will also explore how feminists and queer studies scholars have theorized power, children, and the family, the entanglements of care and coercion in childrearing, and the gendered and sexed socialization of children. Furthermore, we will study how feminists and queer theorists have envisioned alternative practices of raising children beyond normative gender and sexuality.