Global Feminisms
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General
Prefix
GWS
Course Number
340
Course ID
00016352
Course Level
Undergraduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
Development of Global feminist movement(s), identifies challenges, and explores the impact of engaging a transnational perspective in understanding and addressing women's issues across cultures. Examines extent to which the empowerment of women is demonstrated through multiplicity of meaning women give to their actions and life experiences in a global context.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
Yes
MN Goal Designation(s)
08
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Acquire a thorough understanding of the principles underlying the global feminist movement(s); its diversity, its complexity, and its contested nature and meanings within the global context.
Outcome
Understand the similarities, difference, and seeming divide between western feminisms and transnational feminisms (first world and third world) and articulate the problematics of such relationships based on the politics of representation of women in different geographical areas of the world.
Outcome
Identify and articulate issues, concerns, and challenges that have constituted the global feminist agenda in the past three decades and infer what should be in the global feminist agenda for the 21st Century.
Outcome
Use the transnational feminist framework to critique the role of IMF, World Bank, and globalization of the world market in the development of gendered paradoxes of survival in the third world countries.
Dependencies
Programs
GWS340
is a
completion requirement
for: