Spring 2025 First-Year Seminar BC1772 section 001

Transnational Feminism

TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM

Call Number 00324
Day & Time
Location
MW 5:40pm-6:55pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Elsa Stephan
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

What does it mean to be a feminist in a global context? In this course, we will examine the link between feminist activism and social policies from the eighteenth-century to the postMeToo era in several countries such as the UK, Iceland, Argentina, and France. How does activism influence law making and how do social policies influence feminism? How does activism differ from one country to another? What do these differences reveal about our own culture? We will focus on issues such as the history of women’s suffrage, the fight for political representation, access to child care and education, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, parental leave policies, and gender-based violence. We will examine these matters through novels, scholarly works, newspaper articles, political pamphlets as well as comics and street art.

 

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (16 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Subject First-Year Seminar
Number BC1772
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Note Barnard 1st Year Students Only
Section key 20251FYSB1772X001