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Priti Ramamurthy
WOMEN 590
Seattle Campus
Offered by visitors or resident faculty as a one-time in-depth study of special interest.
Class description
The focus of this course is on understanding feminist engagements with international political economy. Theoretical discussions will include feminist analyses and critiques of capitalism as a global system, of international development, and of globalization. Recent feminist theories such as Third World Feminism, Transnational Feminism, and Critical Development Studies will be considered. Assignments will include reading empirical trends and ethnographies that adopt particular theoretical frames. The final essay will be on the circuits theories have traveled and how they are deployed by feminists in one national context or in understanding one international social issue.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
Courses in feminist theory and international studies.
Class assignments and grading
The requirements for the seminar include attendance at all lectures, and reading and discussing the articles/books required.
Students will be evaluated on the basis of seminar participation, involvement in the lecture series, short response papers, and an end of quarter term paper. The paper must adopt a gendered frame to questions of transnationalism, nationalism, ethnicity.
