All Courses
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FG214 Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin
Through various intersectional, feminist and multidisciplinary critical perspectives—such as Black, Transnational, and LGBTQ—this course examines how the identities of Black, Jewish, Turkish, and LGBTQI communities, as well as (im)migrants, refugees, victims of Neo-Nazi terrorism and police brutality, and other marginalized people are constructed in Germany, focusing especially on Berlin—particularly how these constructions are dependent on racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression. Additionally, it examines how these people and communities resist, reject, revise, and reproduce these narratives as they construct their subjectivities.
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FG211 Where My Girls At?: Gender & Sexuality in Hip Hop
Feminist intellectuals have long-studied hip hop’s theories and politics, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Beyond simply locating oppression within hip hop culture—music, art, fashion, dance, film, and other elements—these intellectuals have examined the impetuses for and implications of these problematics. Additionally, they recognize hip hop’s resistive and generative qualities, especially how it has challenged the denigration of marginalized communities for over 40 years. This course examines this contention and contradiction, especially considering how these problems have been revised, resisted, rejected and reproduced within and outside of hip hop culture.
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FG200 Feminist Theory
Feminism aims to develop theories that interrogate the impetuses for and implications of power and dominance, especially that which results in oppression based on the inextricably linked lines of sexuality, race, gender, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers across time periods and geographical locations. Simultaneously, it is committed to developing critical practices designed to eradicate oppression, as well as to examine how various communities understand and resist, reject, and/or reproduce it. This course examines myriad feminist theories, including Black feminism, Transnational feminism, Xicanisma, Marxist feminism, and Ecofeminism, for example, which entails studying multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary work developed in sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, and economics, among other fields, as well as work developed outside of the academy.
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FG316 Critical Race Feminism
Critical Race Feminism (CRF) originates from Critical Race Theory (CRT), which interrogates race and racism in relation to law and politics. CRF builds on CRT by focusing on the realities of women of color, especially regarding racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression. This course explores the major themes in CRF, including, but not limited to, work, parenting, sexual harassment, domestic violence, female genital cutting, and immigration.
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FG110 Introduction to Feminist and Gender Studies
FG110 Introduction to Feminist & Gender Studies introduces students to Feminist & Gender Studies, a multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary discipline that arose in the 1960s and 1970s due to the efforts of those committed to the student, civil rights, and women’s movements. Hence, our intellectual pursuits focus on theories that interrogate the impetuses for and implications of power and dominance, especially that which is dependent on normative assumptions about sexuality, race, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. We also study the ways people understand and resist, reject, and reproduce said assumptions, as well as critical practices designed to eradicate oppression. Along these lines, we study and undertake intellectual work developed in academic disciplines including, but not limited to, sociology, psychology, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and economics, but we also remain committed to intellectual collaboration outside of the academy.