WMST 111: History of Feminist Thought (4)
An interdisciplinary course that explores the development of feminist theories principally in the U.S. and Europe from Mary Wollstonecraft through “the Second Wave.” The course will examine the work of such theorists as Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Church Terrell, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Freidan, as well as feminism’s evolving conversations with liberalism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis and its dialogues with the anti- slavery/civil rights movements and the gay/lesbian rights movements. Prerequisite: WMST12. Signature required for registration. Offered alternate years in the fall semester.