GWSS 590 A: Special Topics

Petty fights. Bad blood. Dyke drama. Ideological warfare. Political impasses. This class explores how conflict has always bee central to feminist thinking, and to the disciplinary formations of feminism with the academy. We examine how fights – interpersonal, ideological, and the lines that blur the two – are often the mechanisms through which feminism’s political imaginations are configured. We pay particular attention to how feminist fights across the 20th and 21st centuries are laced with (over)determinations of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation that produce endlessly more fights.