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This course examines the essentially political ways in which class, race, and gender relate to one another in the context of social division of labor, resources, and representation. It intends to show how reflection and transformative practice can best change the instances of social injustice through introducing new divisions within the existing imposed divisions in a manner that will make ineffective and inoperative the latter. With the help of the analytic of the central modern notion of class and class relations, we will revisit the relations of gender and race in concrete situations. The course is twofold, practical and theoretical within the framework of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In one fold, students will have the chance to engage in some kind of practical-social activity out in an actual community with people who are committed to all sorts of social work. This can span from LGBTQ or immigrant workers to addiction among women. In the other fold, we will undertake theoretical reflections on various aspects of these activities. We will read texts mainly in feminist and Marxist traditions. How these two folds relate to one another will be one key question of the whole course.