WSDB 398 – Feminism and Disability: Intersections and Critical Encounters

300-Level reserve course taught at The Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI) at Concordia University (Winter 2024).

Course Description: This course explores how feminist theory has informed and transformed disability theory as well as how disability theory challenges and enhances feminist thought. We will track the contribution of feminist insights to the development of disability theory beginning with early interventions (Wendell, Crow, Thomas) to contemporary queer and trans feminisms (Kafer, Clare, Baril, Belinsky), post-structural Foucauldian, Deleuzian and Butlerian contributions (Tremain, Shildrick, Campbell), and intersectional feminist approaches which culminate in the recent Disability Justice paradigm (Erevelles, Puar, Schalk, Piepzna-Samarasinha, Sins Invalid Collective, Mingus).

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