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WMST 297: Radical Feminist & Queer Love

WMST 297: Radical Feminist & Queer Love. Tuesday-2:30-5:20 pm, WMST Conference Room, 4 th floor CBC-B Taught by Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, UNLV Women’s Studies, anita.revilla@unlv.edu

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WMST 297: Radical Feminist & Queer Love

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  1. WMST 297:Radical Feminist & Queer Love • Tuesday-2:30-5:20 pm, WMST Conference Room, 4th floor CBC-B • Taught by Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, UNLV Women’s Studies, anita.revilla@unlv.edu • Examines the socially constructed concept of "love" from afeminist and queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and sexually fluid) perspective. Texts by radical feminist,queer, and race scholars take a theoretical look at the way that"love" functions in our individual and collective lives. Explores the ways that contemporary poets and writers construct and challenge the concept of love and relationships through feminist and queer prose. Other themes of the class include the social construction of citizenship, sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation and how that intersects with individual/collective notions of love.

  2. Readings will be selected from the text below: • Emma Perez, Gulf Dreams • bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions • bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love • Antonia Darder, Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy Of Love • Barbara Ehrenreich, Re-Making Love: The Feminization Of Sex • Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues • Chris Beam, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers • Daniel Enrique Pérez, Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture • Ruth Whitney, Feminism & Love: Transforming Ourselves & Our World • Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures • Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

  3. WMST 477/677Critical Race Feminism • Wednesday, 1-3:45 pm, WMST Conference Room, 4th floor CBC-B • Taught by Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, UNLV Women’s Studies, anita.revilla@unlv.edu • Overview of the intellectual traditions of feminist theories put forward by women of color, and introduction to the field of critical race theory. Topics to be discussed include race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, language, immigration, and labor. Using lectures, class discussions/presentations, films, and writing assignments, we will explore the experiences and perspectives of feminist women of color.

  4. Reading Selected from the text below… • Wing, Adrien. (Ed.) (2003). Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. NY: New York University Press. • hooks, bell. (2004). The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. NY: Washington Square Press. • Anzaldua, Gloria. (1987) Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Press. • Anzaldúa, Gloria & Keating, AnaLouise (Eds.) this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. • Anzaldua & Moraga, (Eds.) This Bridge Called My Back. • Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.

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