Academic Catalog

GWS511 MAKING OF FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE

Course Code: 8100511
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Gender&women Studies
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

This course concentrates mainly on theory and methodology specific to feminist knowledge. The purpose of the course is first to question various images, representations, ideas and presumptions of the traditional theories developed about women, second, to engage with questions of the procedures for evaluating scientific knowledge, incorporating the discussions on the feminist positions of methodology in social sciences.