SOCI 307 - Visualizing Feminist Sociology

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This course uses an intersectional feminist lens to explore key analytical questions in visual sociology. We focus on the methods, theories, and pedagogies that inform feminist approaches to visual archives and visual literacy. How have people made and circulated visual materials historically to document, shape, and contest everyday life and social relationships? How has social life and the study of the social world been transformed by technological innovation over time, and what new ways of seeing, knowing, and not knowing have emerged, or are called for, in response? We consider material objects, including everyday snapshots, photojournalism, documentary film, signs, and museum and library collections.

Together we interrogate questions of intent and perception, viewing, marketing, funding, circulation and sharing practices, and debates around these practices. Light Carruyo.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: CLS