GWS 295-02 - Special Topic: The Mermaid Imaginary: Race, Gender, and the Global Waters

4 credits (Spring)

In this course, we will explore diverse cultural and spiritual traditions of gender formations and waters. Drawing on an interdiscplinary set of academic, literary, artistic texts, we will build an understanding of the “mermaid imaginary” - a rich conceptual space in which cultures have reconsidered their own forms of gender and agency. In the process of uncovering the global significance of mermaid traditions, we will encounter new ways of knowing and being and consider their transformative potential for our living on land.

Prerequisite: GWS 111 with grade of S, C, or better.
Note: Plu2-2 Option Available.
Instructor: Beauboeuf