Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER ***** This course explores how international and domestic policies and economic processes shape women's lives, and will examine the implications of power relations within the home, within nations, and between nations, for women's lives in different parts of the world and at different points in history. It looks at similarities and differences in women's experiences across different contexts with such global processes as the sexual division of labor, colonialism, capitalism, domestic service, and slavery. Throughout the course, particular attention is paid to how women, as individuals and in organized groups, have sought to resist oppressive global processes. Films, literature, and scholarly works will be used to explore the subject. ***** Also offered as POLI 250.