WGSS 488G Senior Seminar; Transnational Feminisms

The transnational turn in studies of gender and sexuality has decenter ed Euro-America as the center of feminist knowledge production. This course assembles texts and media from different regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. However, it does not seek to reproduce a series of case studies from elsewhere because transnational and international are not interchangeable terms. Instead, the class addresses how gender and sexuality are central to any study of geopolitics and the international division of labor. They are also central to how borders of nation statesdrawn, policed and how empires keep perpetuating themselves in newer forms. In doing so, the course will attend to the encounters between studies of settler colonialism, women of color feminisms, Black feministthought with transnational feminisms. The readings will be a mixof foundational texts in transnational feminisms as well as contemporaryliterature, films and new media in this expanding body of scholarship.