HU 3500: Topics in Feminist and Queer Theory

This seminar explores canonical and contemporary feminist and queer theory texts, contexts and debates that engage with ideas about sex, gender, sexuality, sexual desire, and queerness. By focusing on a specific lineage within feminist and queer theory, it will interrogate such concepts and ideas as the body and embodiment, marriage and family, reproduction, power and equality, border and boundary crossing, feminist activism, and other key topics in the field. Importantly, it will also center sources and discussions that address theoretical intersections with race, class, dis/ability, religion, and other identity categories. This course may be repeated for different topics.