2. WHAT IS FEMINISM?
Feminism is always in a plural form.
Feminism as a theoretical framework, as a
methodology, as a political stance and/or as a
lifestyle.
This course only asks you to use feminism as a
theoretical framework to analyze literary texts and
social issues even though you don’t adopt feminism
as your political stance or lifestyle.
3. WHAT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF FEMINISM
SHARE?
Concern for those who are oppressed
Power relationships
Social justice and social transformation
Taking women’s experiences into the forefront
4. FEMINISM
Feminism is not only about gender even though
gender may be in the forefront. Since women’s
experiences are never entirely decided by their
gender, feminism is also concerned with the issues
of race, class, able body, sexuality, nationality,
religion, and other identity categories.
This class focuses on multiracial feminism and the
experiences of women of color.
Multiracial feminism is also plural, such as Asian
American feminism, Chicana feminism, Indigenous
feminism, Black feminism, etc.
5. PATRIARCHY
How is patriarchy different from individual men?
Patriarchy is a system that privileges men over
women where both men and women participate in it.
6. WGSST 2215 APPROACH TO LITERATURE
Read literature through feminist lenses.
Not so much about aesthetics itself or distinction
between “good” and “bad” literature.
7. WGSST 2215 APPROACH TO LITERATURE
This course uses women of color writing as a site
to explore the issues of power relationships (e.g.
capitalism, white supremacy, heteronormativity,
heteropatriarchy, settler colonialism), multiple
oppressions women experience, women’s
resistance and agency, social justice, alternative
narrative styles vis-à-vis alternative realities and
epistemologies, linkage between literature and
our daily life, etc.
