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2012-2013 College of Liberal Arts Catalog 
    
2012-2013 College of Liberal Arts Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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WGST 301 - History of Feminist Thought

4 credits
An interdisciplinary course that explores the development of feminist theories principally in the United States and Europe from Mary Wollstonecraft through “the Second Wave. The course examines 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 Friedan, 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. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester in alternate years. CLA-Writing Intensive



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