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Gender in Global Context

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
MoWeFr 10a.m. – 10:50a.m.
University Hall Y02-2110 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
MoWeFr 10a.m. – 10:50a.m.
Location
University Hall Y02-2110
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This course is an introduction to studying women's lives and the gender systems that shape them across cultures and countries, as it examines a variety of global processes and approaches, including patriarchy, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Students will consider issues of gender and sexuality by looking at the ways in which people are connected in a network of global flows of capital, ideas, and activism. Topics include: work, poverty, images of the body, violence, faith, and feminism.

This course is closed for registration.

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