Spring 2023 Women's Studies UN3915 section 001

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP

GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL

Call Number 13671
Day & Time
Location
T 10:10am-12:00pm
754 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Sonia Ahsan
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: Instructor approval required Considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist politics, and human rights. If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine both men’s and women’s positions as as workers and political subjects? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the home, religious institutions, refugee camps, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. We will use specific sociological and anthropological case studies, to look at how various regimes of power operate to constrain individuals as well as give them new spaces for agency. This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender as a lens through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and identities.
Web Site Vergil
Department Women's and Gender Studies
Enrollment 16 students (20 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, March 28, 2024
Subject Women's Studies
Number UN3915
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Campus Morningside
Note Pref. to WGSS students; SP23 Descrip: tinyurl.com/bdcsfeaa
Section key 20231WMST3915W001