Women's Rights Movements

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

From the right to vote to the right to decide, the fight for women's rights has transformed public and private life across the world. This fight, however, has not necessarily been unified, nor has it been without obstacles. In this course, we will explore how movements for women's rights have changed through recent history, and how has it impacted politics around the world. This course will introduce general theories for social movements and collective action while analyzing the most relevant moments of social movements for women's rights in history. Students will be invited to reflect on how traditional theories of social movements lack a gender-perspective, how some of the most important social movements have ignored women as rights subjects. This course looks at the experiences of women's social movements from a comparative perspective. We will delve into analysis of cases from North and Latin America, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.