Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 300js - Seminar: Topics in the Study of Women and Gender-Justice and Security
Sem:T-Gender,Justice,Security
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Ana Del Conde
TH 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
SWG-300js-01-202503
Seelye 310
adelconde@smith.edu
This course explores understandings of security and justice from a feminist perspective. It draws upon a trans-disciplinary range of social theories and materials from both the US and international contexts (mostly in the Global South) to critically explore how traditional practices of security authorize and protect specific interests while destabilizing and rendering vulnerable other populations. The course centers grassroots practices of security, peace and justice that challenge prevailing militarized and securitized assumptions and practices. At the heart of this course is a commitment to questioning our conceptions of how security works around the intersections of power and oppression (i.e., gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.). Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor permission required.
[CE] JR/SR only