GWS 395-01 - Advanced Speical Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Emotion

4 credits (Spring)

Scholars across disciplines have shown growing interest in the role of affect (or emotion)in shaping social and political life. This class surveys recent work in the “affective turn” of gender and sexuality studies, but is also traces a longer history of critical thinking about relationships between power and feeling, drawing from activist and popular writings, literature, and film. Students will consider how affect has informed work on a variety of issues, both devastating and more mundane, including slavery, AIDS, activist
burnout, and trigger warnings.

Prerequisite: GWS 249.
Instructor: Lewis