GNDR 320 Women and Resistance: Current BIPOC Issues and Queer Spaces
Progress for women¿s rights has been made since the Women¿s Rights Movement and second wave of feminism such as the right to vote, challenging traditional gender roles, and access to education and healthcare. But despite modern changes and progress in the global geopolitical landscape, women remain in peril and continue to advocate for equality and equity. Specific topics explored in this course may include racism, sexism and misogynoir, objectification, imperialism, colonialism, erasures, and gender violence in BIPOC and queer women¿s spaces and communities. Focus will also include the connections between queer resistance and futurity.
Prerequisites
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective August 18, 2025 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Describe how women situate their perils and lived experiences as acts of resistance against oppressive structures and how they become reclamations of individual agency and power.
- Recognize the global vulnerability of women¿s rights.
- Apply different theories, concepts, pluralities, and positionalities to critically articulate and respond to how current modern women and gender perils are parallels of the past.
- Evaluate how multiple cultural and transnational spaces and social structures subjugate women and enforce gender-based displacement through colonialism, imperialism, militarism, sexism, misogyny, misogynoir, colorism, classism, and racism.
- Explore the complexities and pluralisms of queerness in cis-heteronormative spaces.
- Analyze different scholarship and media to speculatively reimagine an equitable transnational future for all women.