GWS 290 FEELING STATES

Feeling States and States of Feeling: Affect, Power and Social Transformation  A psychosocial analysis of feelings, with emphasis on their sociological, psychological, aesthetic, and corporeal implications. The course draws on the fields of gender and women's studies, sociology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, art, poetry, history, and cultural studies. The course employs psychosocial methods to analyze the unacknowledged affective assumptions at work in cultural materials, as well as understanding their historical lineage and political implications. Students will analyze how feeling is produced and deployed culturally, and how it is linked to power, inequality, and privilege.