This course offers a historical genealogy and analysis of contemporary public feminisms. From the longstanding socialist tradition of International Women's Day to the 1970 Women's Strike, "Global Women's Strike" and the recent feminist strikes across the globe, feminist movements have pushed the "personal"-the intimate sphere of the body and sexuality-into the public. This course uses antiracist and materialist feminist theories to focus on social movements and art as they manifest in the space of the street and on the pathways of the internet, igniting with popularity as they force feminist issues into public life. This course will include investigation of the following feminist movements and theories, and more: antiviolence, abolition, and women of color feminisms; materialist feminism; anticolonial feminism and the politics of the hijab; Black feminist genealogies of antislavery, the Labor Movement, Civil Rights, and Black Power; the feminist "sex wars;" queer/feminist organizing in the 1980s and 90s; transfeminisms; and reproductive justice. This course will also feature a contemporary look at #MeToo, #SayHerName, the Women's March, and the current sex workers' movement, including the debate over FOSTA/SESTA and related state regulation of sex work.

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