GLOBAL FEMINISMS: A WORLD AND CENTURY OF WOMEN'S ACTIVISM

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This course explores real and diverse circumstances where feminisms have emerged. Over the semester, we examine feminist movements and their respective contexts; feminists’ distinct directions of thought and action; individuals, groups and organizations that have participated in defining feminism; and finally, the connectivity that makes transnational feminist work possible. The course is grounded in sites of 'agonizing and organizing,' as well as in those feminist narratives that search for cohesion even where there is tension. Finally, throughout the course, we embrace and explore complexities of unresolved issues: none more basic than the still controversial claim that women's rights are human rights.