WGST 301 - Understanding Feminist Theory

3 Credits
3 lecture hours.

In this course students focus on the diverse theories that inform feminism as a social and political ideology. Central to contemporary feminist theories is the understanding of gender as a pervasive social construction that reflects and determines differentials of power and opportunity in society. Feminist theories establish gender as a focal point in a complex matrix with class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual orientation as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis. Feminist theories thus allow specific perspectives into manifestations of cultures globally.