GWS183 PO - Transnational Feminist Theories

When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2016.
Instructor(s): A. Apgar
Credit: 1

Globalization has had multifarious cultural, economic and political effects on conceptualizations of “sexuality” and its relationship to gender across the world. In this class, we will learn how to situate cultural, and historical understandings of gender and sexuality in their geopolitical specificity. We will examine concepts of identity, sexual practices and queerness in relation to notions of the local-global, nationhood, the transnational, diaspora, borders, margins, and urban-rural. We will bring postcolonial, transnational, queer, and feminist disciplinary approaches to bear upon one another, in order to study how knowledge about sex, gender and sexuality is produced and disseminated transnationally.

Prerequisite: GWS 026 PO .