Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (341-0-20)
Topic
Women Uprising: Thinking with Transnational Femini
Instructors
Amanda Ziyi Fu
Meeting Info
Parkes Hall 212: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
In an age of climate disasters, detention and deportations, ever expanding settler colonization, and neo-imperialist warfare, what does mean to be a feminist? Can one act feminist without reckoning with questions of race, capital, and the nation-state? Is the "transnational civil society" an agent for real liberation, or merely the latest iteration of the White Savior self-imagination? To answer these questions, this course will trace diverse voices for women's liberation across the globe, from the beginning of modernity through the contemporary age. From independence fighters in colonial India to the 2022 "Woman Life Freedom" protests in Iran, from 20th-century communist and anarchists revolutionaries to queer activists in China today, from past pan-Africanist visionaries to indigenous activists resisting ongoing expropriation, we will encounter women resisting simultaneously forces of local patriarchy and Western intervention. We will see how ideas of social justice, struggles for political autonomy, and women's liberation intertwine and travel across borders, and we will explore how transnational solidarities grow and engender new revolutionary aspirations.
Teaching Method
Case studies, readings, class participation, discussion, research project
Evaluation Method
Attendance, case studies, class participation,readings, research project
Class Materials (Required)
In Canvas
Class Attributes
Global Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity