Department of Gender Studies
Gender, patriarchy, modernity, global capitalism -these are all transnational in scope (that is, they cross national borders). However, our faculty see the importance of understanding how these transnational processes are always “indigenized” (adapted in specific and unique ways to local conditions and gendered). We explore research and theoretical frameworks to understand the ways in which certain ideas or identities “travel,” and how they are embedded in local political, cultural and social negotiations of power. Through this lens, we try to create theoretical frameworks that are non-totalizing or universalist. Various faculty members’ research and numerous courses examine how feminism has functioned as a transnational discourse in various historical eras and intersected with other social phenomena like the labor movement or colonialism. This topic includes research on the history of the women’s movement internationally.
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