Jul 07, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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POLS 4780 - Feminist Political Theories and Movements
Explores feminist work as both a vital critical perspective and a source of alternative and transformative visions. Examine mechanisms and manifestations of patriarchy as they play out across fields of struggle–cultural, social, economic, as well as traditional political spaces. The relationship between patriarchal forms of oppression and other practices of domination–race, sexuality, class, or ethnicity based critically analyzed. Normative visions generated from feminist perspectives explored as alternatives to patriarchal orderings.
Requisites: POLS 2700 and WGSS 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to critically assess feminist alternatives and commitments to non-domination.
- Students will be able to identify a range of understandings of oppression.
- Students will have an understanding of intersectionality.
- Students will have an understanding of the meanings of patriarchy and be able to identify these understandings with a range of traditions in feminist work and contemporary practices.
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