Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

Does oppression and liberation look the same everywhere? What does the construction of gender look like around the world and which intersections matter across diverse geographies? What does feminism look like in a transnational context? What can we learn from feminist and gendered struggles elsewhere? WGSS 262 is an introduction to studying gendered lives and feminist movements in a transnational context. We examine global processes, including colonialism, present-day labor struggles such as those surrounding sweatshops, transnational cultural production in films and autobiography, and critical responses to globalized capitalism and development. This class considers gender and sexuality in transnational perspective so we’ll look not only at case studies of minoritized groups in other nations, but at how we are all connected in a network of global flows of capital, ideas, and activism. Our goal is to develop a transnational, cross-cultural lens for understanding gendered, raced, and sexualized phenomena. As this is a writing course, we will work on the craft of writing, including building skills of summary, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, peer response, and self-reflection into various kinds of writing assignments while we explore course content.

Student Outcomes

 Students will identify relations between the Global North and South (and the limits of labels)  Students will understand how colonialism and neoliberal globalization affect people of varied genders and sexualities differently in different geographical and political contexts  Students will start to see the connections between humans, nature, culture, and capital through a framework that highlights differences of gender, race, class, caste, religion, sexuality, ability, and nationality

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