GWSS4107

How do we generate new knowledge about gender, sexuality, race, caste, disability, etc? How do we show evidence for the political claims we make, amid the messiness and complexity of the world? These questions point towards feminist research methods: the concrete techniques we use in GWSS to “collect data” about a topic. Collecting data can mean many things: interviewing, ethnography, autoethnography, archival research and oral histories, surveys, mapping, participatory research, literary or textual analysis, and/or a combination of all of these. Students in this class will practice designing and recording interviews, taking field notes, and other concrete research skills. We draw on transnational and decolonial feminist research, Black feminist studies, queer and trans studies, and science and technology studies to question how personal experience relates to political claims and vice versa.

A-F - A-F Grade Basis

No

Every Fall