Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This is an advanced level course on the broad confrontation between feminist and `postmodern' theory and politics. In the light of the postmodern decentering of the subject, the problematisation of the status of the author, and the critique of the humanist and rationalist subject, feminist theory has had to adjust and even transform its concerns. This course will focus on a number of sites of tension and controversy in this confrontation, a series of key debates and sites of insecurity in feminism and between feminists. Here, among other things, we will explore the impact of deconstruction, queer theory and the debates between generations of feminists on the ways in which feminist theory sees itself.
Assessment Written (6000 words or 9000 words if taken as a 12-point subject): 100%