FGSS 1117

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FGSS 1117
FWS: Feminist Praxis, Representation, and Migration

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

How are migrants and refugees typically depicted in film and news media accounts of their lives and journeys? How can an intersectional feminist analysis of gender, sexuality, race, and class help us to see this media from a more holistic perspective? Course texts bring together intersectional feminist theories of power. In this class you will read and discuss texts by feminist theorists, activist-scholars, critical media scholars, and journalists such as Sarah Ahmed, bell hooks, Edward Said, and Angela Davis. Students will put feminist theory into practice (praxis) through direct engagement assignments in collaboration with local immigrant rights organizations. Through course assignments, students will develop tools to critically analyze the media they consume, and also to intervene into racist and sexist media representations through their writing.

When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18857 FGSS 1117   SEM 101

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    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Nesvaderani, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.