FG200 Feminist Theory

Feminism aims to seek justice for people and communities that are systematically and systemically marginalized based on their gender, race, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Along these lines, the many existing feminist theories—such as Black feminism, Transnational feminism, Xicanisma, Marxist feminism, Ecofeminism, and so on—attempt to theorize the impetuses for and implications of power and dominance particular to specific communities across time periods and geographical locations. Further, feminist theories are interdisciplinary in that they have been developed by intellectuals from a variety of academic disciplines including, but not limited to, sociology, psychology, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and economics. Additionally, feminist theorizing also depends on intellectual collaboration outside of the academy.