Course description
With gender inequality pervasive across cultures worldwide, and gender-based violence intensified by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, how are individuals, groups, communities, and nations fighting for—and against—gender justice? How have struggles against gender injustice intersected and conflicted with struggles against racial, ethnic, economic, environmental, health, LGBTQIA+, and other forms of injustice? Focusing on case studies from Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this course draws on a range of sources to examine struggles against different forms of gender-based inequality and gender-based violence. Sources include novels, films, and television series such as The Handmaid's Tale and Before She Sleeps; memoirs such as Black Box: The Memoir that Sparked Japan's #MeToo Movement and Shamed: The Honour Killing that Shocked Britain by the Sister Who Fought for Justice; ethnographies such as Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa; and histories such as Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.
