Course Details

Course offered Spring 2024

HONORS 394 A: Feminism in the Borderlands (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)

HONORS 394 A: Feminism in the Borderlands (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)

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Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students

This undergraduate seminar examines the particular forms in which Chicana feminist theoretical practices in the art of solidarity are embodied, including theoretical texts, poetry, music, and other creative works. Seminar considers how Chicana feminist theory has transformed and been transformed by intellectual, poetic, and aesthetic traditions as it moves throughout the U.S. borderlands and beyond. Each seminar meeting consists of a brief lecture, discussion break-out groups, a mid-way break, and a viewing/listening to relevant film, media or audio texts or assignment workshop. It is linked to the 2021 Plurifeminisms Against Extractivism: Art/Law across Abiayala.