GWST 3020 - Black Feminisms

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
A survey of historical and contemporary black feminist traditions. Core themes could include the intersections of race and gender with class, sexuality, generation, and place; black feminist thought and its relationship to womanism and other feminisms; outsider-within positionality of black women; black feminist epistemologies; mediated representations of black women’s identities; black lesbian feminism; commodification of black women’s bodies; black women’s global resistance to racism and sexism.