GSFS 404 Politics of Identity

3 credits · Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St · Faculty of Arts · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subject…

Prerequisites

GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course

Prerequisite courses: GSFS 200, GSFS 250

Restrictions

Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity. Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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