Global Feminisms

WGS

71701

Global Feminisms

This course will explore key global debates in contemporary international feminism. Many if not most of the issues focused on by modern (second wave) Western feminism have run up against cultural, political and/or economic obstacles in the form of cultural barriers, opposing standpoints regarding colonialism and its aftermath, and other differences of philosophy and perspective. Are women’s rights a universal claim or a Western-inflected tool of cultural and political domination? How do feminists around the world view issues of religious fundamentalism, reproductive freedom, female genital cutting, sexual objectification of women, political participation for women, lesbian and gay rights, trafficking in women and girls, veiling for women and girls, and violence against women? We will examine these issues in an international frame, asking questions about universalism and economic globalization, and looking at the possibilities for, but also the barriers to, international feminist solidarity.

Offer as needed

Graduate School Graduate

No

030891