Introduction to Feminisms

This course may be used to satisfy one of four electives required within the Communication major. Fulfills Women Writer's requirement for ENGL/LSOE majors. This introductory course offers both an overview and a foundation for understanding the various movements that make up what has come to be called the feminist movement in the U.S. Because systems of privilege and disadvantage shape women's and men's identities and social positions in multiple and unique ways, Introduction to Feminisms analyzes gender from an interdisciplinary approach and applies numerous academic disciplinary methods to the study of gender, including history, literature, psychology, and sociology, and explores women's and men's experiences within various cultural contexts, including socioeconomic class, race, and ethnicity, religion and spirituality, nations of citizenship, origin, and generation.