Feminist Interdisciplinary Histories and Methods

Rather than begin with an exploration of “the” feminist methodology in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, or an account of “the” history of feminism, this course will explore what counts as “history,” as “method,” and as “evidence” in feminist scholarship. Since its emergence as a distinct knowledge project within the academy, feminism has sought to raise questions about how we know what we know, who gets to speak and for whom, and what are legitimate objects of study and fields of inquiry. Our goal will not be to seek answers to these (and other) questions, but to trace some of the ways in which feminist scholars have sought to intervene in debates about both the what and how of knowledge production in its many (inter-trans-multi-)disciplinary forms.