PARW 7609 - Womanist-Feminist Worldviews

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

This class for all M.A. and Ph.D. students examines a diversity of womanist, feminist, mujerista, and postcolonial worldviews, theories, and activism in the United States and internationally. It reviews contemporary international dialogues and postcolonial discourses, along with modern and historic womanist-feminist controversies. Topics covered include the following: an examination of the intersectionality of gender, race, class, and sexual identity proposed by African-American and Latina feminists; feminism, gender, and activism among local/global/ Diasporic feminists of Africa, Asia, North and South America, the Middle East, and Europe; dominant and non-dominant womanist-feminist discourses on spirituality, religion, and gender; local and global feminist analyses of gender, violence, and war; the social construction of the self in a variety of social and cultural settings; and a cross-cultural examination of the experience and institution of motherhood.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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