GWSS 390 C: Intermediate Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

FEMINIST SOCIAL REPRODUCTION THEORY AND RADICAL POLITICS OF CARE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION THEORY WORKS TO EXCAVATE FORMS OF UNWAGED LABOR THAT ARE REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN WAGED LABOR. THIS COURSE WORKS TO TRACE THE WAYS IN FORMS OF LABOR HAVE BEEN CONCEPTUALIZED BY READING MAJOR WORKS OF THEORISTS SUCH AS TITHI BATTARCHARYA AND SILVIA FEDERICI, PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WAYS IN WHICH SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IS IN CONVERSATION WITH CRITIQUES OF NEOCOLONIALISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE "CRISIS OF CARE." THE COURSE WILL THEN TURN TO RADICAL QUEER THINKERS WHO ARE CONCEPTUALIZING THE CURRENT PRODUCTION OF "ESSENTIAL WORKERS" BY THE STATE AS EMERGING ALONGSIDE EVER-GROWING MUTUAL AID PROJECTS AND THE RECONCEPTUALIZING OF CARE WORK.