POS5116 Feminist Political Thought
This course will examine recent developments in feminist political thought through an analysis of both primary and secondary sources in the feminist theory tradition. Issues to becovered are: the state of the category 147woman,148 the social construction of gender, the politics of the body and gender, essentialism, identity politics, movement activity, the intersection of race, class and gender, theories of the 147self148, nature and the environment.