13112
Seminar
WiSe 21/22: Feminist Internationalisms and Global Women´s Movements
Sarah Katherine Bellows-Blakely
Comments
This course provides an introductory history to global feminist thought and political organizing since the late 19th century. It consists of three modules on histories of global feminisms and international women’s movements. The first module will both introduce students to and challenge liberal narratives tracing the origins of women's movements back to Western European revolutions in the 19th century, the suffragettes, and then to "second wave" feminism in the North Atlantic after the 1960s. In the second module, the course will invite students to think through how various women-focused movements around the world arose through intertwined and hierarchical structures such as colonialism and capitalism - structures that produced new understandings of who "women" were and how stable or unstable that category has been. This section will include case studies on colonial, national, and transnational women’s movements since the 19th century from East Africa to Eastern Europe and beyond. The third module will focus on the UN women's movement after 1945 and competing visions of socialist, capitalist, "Third World,” and Global South feminisms. It will challenge students to think about how and why "neoliberal” feminism rose to prominence in powerful spaces of international policymaking since the 1990s while understanding various challenges to it, including intersectional and post-colonial feminisms and alternative visions of gender-based justice. Rather than aiming for exhaustive coverage, the course will chart broad trends in feminist thought and activism since the late 19th century while encouraging students to think through the various fractures, cleavages, and ruptures that have characterized efforts for gender-based solidarity across time and space. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2021-10-22 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-11-05 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-11-12 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-11-19 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-11-26 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-12-03 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-12-10 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2021-12-17 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-01-07 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-01-14 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-01-21 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-02-04 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-02-11 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2022-02-18 14:00 - 16:00