Course Description:
This course will survey and analyze the particularities and intersections of multiple forms of oppression and privilege, specifically gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and their implications for the development of feminist theory. We will discuss feminist analyses of theories, issues and paradigms relevant to oppression and privilege, including concepts of identity, subjectivity, positionality, collusion and resistance.The focus of the course will be on how the social processes of privilege and oppression have been internalized and expressed in the life experiences of women and how the diversity and commonality of our social histories have shaped our voices.

Required Texts:
- Bartky, Sandra (1990). Femininity and Domination. NY: Routledge, Chapman & Hall.
- Memmi, Albert (1957/1991). The colonizer and the colonized. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Miller, Jean B. (1986).(2nd.ed.). Toward new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon Press.
- WS 607 Reader (Packet of photocopied articles).

Topics:

Necessity of asking unanswerable questions
Oppression and privilege as social processes                             
Internalization of social processes
Feminization as Oppression                                                                           
Body, Beauty and Identity                                                              
Body, Pain, and Identity 
Memory, Truth, and Identity
Language: Oppression and Privilege                                        
Love and Power
Sexuality and Power                                                                                                
Locations and boundaries of resistance                                      

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