GWS 343 - Queer Ecologies

3 Credits

Queer Ecologies explores queer, feminist, environmentalist cultural theories that illuminate and interrogate historical and current intersections between sexualities, politics, and environments. This course asks, what do queer and feminist theories of gender, identity, power, and desire contribute to environmentalism, and likewise, how might environmentalist theories of nature and environment enrich queer and gender theory, politics, and activism?
Prerequisites: Any GWS course or HIS 209, HIS 260, SOC 234, SOC 236, SOC 240, SOC 242