GWS183 PO - Transnational Feminist Theories

When Offered: Fall 2022.
Instructor(s): E. Hernández-Medina
Credit: 1

Globalization has been defined as the increasing interconnectedness among nations and peoples in all fields around the globe. The process has had multiple 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 contexts. 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, decolonial, transnational, queer, and feminist disciplinary approaches to talk to each other, in order to study how knowledge about sex, gender and sexuality is produced and disseminated transnationally.

Prerequisite: GWS 026 PO .