GWSS 590 A: Special Topics

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