WSTD 3650 - Global Feminisms

Goals: This course has two goals: (1) to explore how economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization shape women’s lived experience and women’s concerns around the world; and (2) to understand how feminist ideas circulate globally, and how they engage local women’s concerns for social justice, human rights and equality through institutional practice as well as through revolutionary imaginaries.

Content: An exploration of the relationships between women, feminism, and globalization to discover and understand how economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization affect women and men differently in different places, and help to constitute gender difference. Additionally, this course will explore how women’s issues and activism around the world develop in the context of globalization.

Taught: Alternate years.

Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent or GLOB 1910, or permission of instructor.

Credits: 4 credits