WS 311A - Global Women’s Issues: Gender, Activism and Social Justice

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Merrimack College

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Description:

Some of the areas we will investigate are the effects of Globalization on women, UN resolutions that define women’s rights as human rights. We will explore how war, international trade agreements, global sweatshops, the international sex trade and new technologies like genetic engineering affect the lives of women across the globe. We will also look at how women are mobilizing internationally to create change in the local national and international landscapes. We will read narratives of Indigenous women from around the world. Some areas we will focus on are women in the Middle East, Mexico, Asia, South America and North America. We will ask how women are empowering themselves and others to fight for human rights and social justice. Three hours a week. class, ethnicity, sexuality, nation and age in advertising, movies, music, magazines, television and more. We will address issues of social inequality in the media and explore alternative media, media literacy, and media democracy. We will examine production techniques and how different audiences read the media. Finally, we will experiment with creating our own media representations of gender. Three hours a week.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.merrimack.edu

Phone Number:

(978) 837-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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