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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on struggles in various parts of the world to have women's rights recognized as human rights in international law and policy. It examines the use of women's human rights claims and instruments by different social movements, and explores feminist debates over, and critiques of, the concept and use of women's human rights.
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3.00 Credits
This courses addresses the meaning and making of "development" in the global South in the post World War II period. It provides an historical understanding of the sub-field of Gender and Development (GAD) and the emergent field of sexuality and development, along with related fields of environmental rights, indigenous rights, and anti-racism advocacy and activism. It addresses how women's and sexual rights movements have organized to influence the agendas of institutions of global governance, and examines how activists have worked to incorporate broader notions of development and human rights into global and national agendas, including through anti-development protest and through sexual and economic justice movements.
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3.00 Credits
Through an examination of feminist and queer analyses of globalization, this course will help students come to complex understandings of how not only economies, polities, and cultures are being restructured, but also how identities, relations, and daily lives are being altered by processes of globalization. It will also focus on resistances to globalization and the impact of globalization on those resistances.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on how international violence (militarization, war, genocide) rests upon gender, race, class, sexuality, and national power relations and representations. It also considers feminist forms of resistance to international violence, and how constructions of security enable the perpetration of violence from the domestic to the international.
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3.00 Credits
This course draws on feminist theory to explore how gender shapes migration and citizenship. Population movements worldwide are intricately connected to existing gender, labor, sexual, and family relations. Students will read a wide array of feminist analyses of migration from political science, sociology, and geography to anthropology, history, and literary/cultural studies, to explore the ways gender organizes immigration. Students will also study discourse and (post)colonial theories to enhance existing structural analyses and to analyze the ways in which narratives of modernity, nationhood, and the West have paved the way for the construction of migrant subjectivities and communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course will enable students to compare and contrast the development, foci, and interactions of national feminisms in particular world regions. Although the region of the world under study can vary, this course will most often focus on countries in the North American region (Mexico, Canada, and the US), with comparative examples from other regions. The course will examine how national and regional contexts shape feminist movements and how feminist movements shape national and regional politics.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses feminist and women's transnational forms of organizing in various regions, including in the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and/or the European Union. It addresses how and why women have chosen to organize across national/geopolitical borders; the emergence of "women of color," global South, and anti-globalization networks; and women's transnational responses to various forms of inequality and injustice. The course necessarily interrogates the meaning of "transnationality," as well as notions of borders, identities, citizenship, and human rights in an increasingly globalized world. Specific regions to be included depend upon the instructor's area of expertise.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the work of feminist political theorists who have critiqued the injustice of global frameworks and have re-imagined justice in a global frame. It will particularly consider feminist critiques of global feminism as a source of global injustice and the implications of this for thinking about feminism and global justice.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course allows WGSS majors and minors to engage in supervised experiences in community organizations, actively working on issues of gender and social justice. Students must identify a community organization with which they wish to work, secure an on-site supervisor, and propose the internship to the WGSS Undergraduate Director. Approval of the WGSS Undergraduate Director is necessary before enrolling in this course.
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3.00 Credits
Economic analysis of women's labor force participation, gender related earning and occupational differential, joint labor supply, impact of marriage and divorce, fertility and child care.
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