Course Description
Course Description: Young people are challenging roles and identities like never before, opening up new possibilities to discuss gender and feminism in the classroom. This course will examine these new possibilities and their challenges, looking at teaching experiences and exploring new practices in the concepts, theories and debates in feminism and LGBTQ+ movements from the late twentieth century to the present.
Audience: Social Studies, English, History and Humanities educators with a Bachelors Degree, Graduate Politics and Philosophy interests.
Session Information
In order to ensure full participation, the group will choose the 8 dates together.
Instructors
Dr. Eric Jacobson
Dr. Eric Jacobson
I am the Director of the Vermont Center for Social Research. I am a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies. I taught for many years in London, visiting professor at Middlebury College. I am originally from New York, studied in Vermont, and returned to Vermont after 20 years in Europe. I received a PhD from the Free University of Berlin with an expertise in 19th and 20th century German-Jewish philosophy and culture, critical theory, philosophy of race, religion, holocaust and fascism.
Additional Content Area
Course Goals:
• We will study how the politics of gender and sexuality develop in relation to transnational movements for racial and class liberation, asking what lessons historical movements for transnational solidarity have for us today.
• We will read, analyze and discuss a series of key feminist and queer texts engaging concepts such as consciousness, solidarity, intersectionality, labor and performativity.
• We will also look at tensions and controversies around gender and sexuality, and what lessons feminist and queer organizing have for moving beyond a politics of exclusion to a politics of liberation.