https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5542?type=COREFeminist theory and practice have changed tremendously since the days of first and second wave feminism - as evidenced by the emergence of the term "Gender Studies" itself (from what had often originally been "Women's Studies"). In this course, we will explore some of the ways in which feminist thinking has, since roughly the early 1990s, grown, changed, fractured, and striven for unity in response to challenges to universal concepts of "woman", shifting understandings of gender and sexual difference, new thinking about power and agency, and sweeping reconceptualizations of the relationships between gender, bodies, and the borders of the human. Through close reading and in-depth discussion of key texts, we will trace these turns and their implications for how we see feminism as both academic discipline and political practice.