GENDER AND GLOBALIZATION   [Archived Catalog]
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ANTH 1728 - GENDER AND GLOBALIZATION


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Gender is a key structuring principle of difference and inequality in society, while globalization is a condition characterized by time-space compression and ever-expanding connections across national boundaries. Globalization emerged out of such (and often violent) practices of contact as capitalism, colonialism, socialism, the Cold War, and neoliberalism. This course will explore the intersection of gender and globalization asking how gender shapes processes of globalization and how the role of gender is shifting as national/cultural regulatory systems are no longer able to maintain control over what is recognized as "normative" in the context of gender roles and gendered practices. This course will examine various facets of the interface between gender and globalization in such contexts as cross-border marriages, international adoption, sex and colonialism, gender and state violence, women in socialist welfare states, labor migration, the global sex industry, queer identities and activism, as well as gender and technology (especially, the intersection of gender inequality and the idea of technological enabled empowerment). The particular historical contexts in which we will discuss these themes include colonialism, the Cold War Era, post-socialism, and neoliberalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis


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