Taught By:
Jane Simonsen
Professor, History and Gender Studies
Augustana Colllege
Course Description:
Course Description This course provides an introduction to and overview of concerns, questions, assumptions, debates, and silences in feminist theories, with a focus on the modern/postmodern era. We will not attempt to “cover” all feminist theories, which are diverse and evolving. Instead, we will consider the approaches that various feminist thinkers past and present have used to explain and to question the normative gender order. Because theory has never existed in a vacuum, we will think about how various feminist theories apply to historical and contemporary issues.
