POL380H1F L0101

Topics in International Politics

Gender and Intersectionality in Global Politics

Themes

This course will consider issues of gender and politics from the standpoint of ‘intersections’ with race and class. Intersectional feminism has emerged as a highly influential approach in Political Science and other social science disciplines, and in policy formulation from the global to the local. Specific United Nations world conferences and declarations addressing human rights, gender, race and Indigeneity will be addressed, as well as examples from Canada, the US, the UK and the global south. The intersection of social movements with current issues in Political Science internationally will be a central theme of the course. Issues to be addressed include gender, race, class, Indigeneity, climate justice and highly contested elections.

Texts

Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Birge, Intersectionality; and Helma Lutz, et al., eds., Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept of Gender Studies.

Prerequisites

POL208H1 or POL208Y1 or POL209H5 or POLB80H3