Graduate Courses
Agency, Subjectivity, and Social Change
The course provides multi-disciplinary social science approaches to understanding the intersection of poverty, inequality and gender. The course will be an advanced reading seminar that explores various (but especially feminist) approaches to theorizing, measuring, experiencing how the global economy works and the relationship between capitalist development and gender and race/ethnic inequality and poverty. The course will also examine models, policies, and strategies used by activist to foster social change. Though the focus is global particular attention will be paid to the United States and the particular issues inequality race and gender.
Gender and Development
This course has five main objectives.
The first is to provide an analysis of the location of women in the processes of economic development; to understand what economic development is, the scales or levels at which it occurs, and the centrality of gender at every level.
The second is to examine theoretical and conceptual frameworks for that analysis.
The third is to reflect upon linkages between the global economy and the gendered macro and micro process of development and transitions from ‘government’ to ‘governance.’
The fourth is to understand the usefulness of a rights based approach to gender justice.
The fifth is to provide basis for research, practical action and policy formulation and for evaluating directions and strategies for social change from a gender perspective.
Gendered Borders/Changing Boundaries
The course provides a multi-disciplinary materialist approach to understanding the way that capitalist development has created/es gendered borders and changes/ed boundaries. The course examines the global economic system and the ways in which it has changed over time. This is an advanced reading seminar that explores various (but especially feminist) approaches to theorizing how the global economy works to deconstruct and unmask the neoliberal, market-driven policy agenda and examine national and global alternatives. It will focus on how the changing nature of production with global flows of capital and people, have a gender differentiated impact on the lives of women in different locations. Particular attention will be paid to macro economic policy, supply chains and labor rights, financialization, development policy and inclusive growth.
Poverty, Inequality and Gender
The course provides multi-disciplinary social science approaches to understanding the intersection of poverty, inequality and gender. The course will be an advanced reading seminar that explores various (but especially feminist) approaches to theorizing, measuring, experiencing how the global economy works and the relationship between capitalist development and gender and race/ethnic inequality and poverty. The course will also examine models, policies, and strategies used by activist to foster social change. Though the focus is global particular attention will be paid to the United States and the particular issues inequality race and gender.
The first is to provide an analysis of the location of women in the processes of economic development; to understand what economic development is, the scales or levels at which it occurs, and the centrality of gender at every level.
The second is to examine theoretical and conceptual frameworks for that analysis.
The third is to reflect upon linkages between the global economy and the gendered macro and micro process of development and transitions from ‘government’ to ‘governance.’
The fourth is to understand the usefulness of a rights based approach to gender justice.
The fifth is to provide basis for research, practical action and policy formulation and for evaluating directions and strategies for social change from a gender perspective.
Undergraduate Courses
Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Rights through the United Nations
The course aims to bridge feminist theory and praxis though readings, discussions and concrete experiences at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and dialogue with feminist activists from around the world. The priority theme of the 63rd meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will focus on social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women. The review theme will focus on women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development. The course will: examine global strategies related to social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure through feminist perspectives on women’s economic rights and development in general; explore the potentials and liabilities of the United Nations as a venue for feminist advocacy; and encourage the use of an intersectional lens to explore these themes.
Here is a video and an article about the 2018 edition of the course.