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May 20, 2026
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WGSS 4100 - Global Feminisms
This course explores women’s and feminist movements in the Global South. Students learn the basic elements of transnational, postcolonial, and decolonial feminist theory and practice, and consider how these may provide a response to, critique of, and alternative to American and Western European feminist discourses. The course explores the origins of feminisms across the globe, highlighting the connection of women’s movements to nationalist/independence movements, revolutionary movements, and state-based feminism in socialist countries. Students examine issues that are important to women and feminists in various contexts in the Global South, and consider how these issues are addressed by both local activist movements and transnational organizations.
Requisites: WGSS 3500
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Term(s) Typically Offered:
- Athens: Spring Semester, Every Year
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to discuss the complexity of the term “feminism” when used in a global context.
- Students will be able to outline the development of women’s/feminist movements in a global context from the late 1800s to the present.
- Students will be able to explain the relationship between feminisms in diverse geographic contexts, including the ways that feminisms from the Global South are contributing to and challenging feminist ideas in the Global North.
- Students will be able to explain the importance of colonial relationships and independence movements in understanding contemporary women’s issues and organizing around gender and sexuality.
- Students will be able to identify particular issues confronting women and the LGBTQ community in the Global South and identify the benefits and drawbacks of organizing at different scales to confront these issues.
- Students will be able to explain how economic, social, and political context affects organizing and activism around gender and sexuality in the Global South.
- Students will be able to reflect on and examine how they have constructed knowledge of women, gender, sexuality, and feminism in contexts outside their home country.
- Students will be able to identify ways that learning about gender and sexuality in a global context may inform their actions as global citizens, and identify supportive actions that recognize the feelings of cultural group in the Global South.
- Students will be able to identify and reflect on their own assumptions regarding issues of gender and sexuality in a global context, and particularly in reference to the Global South.
- Students will be able to demonstrate curiosity, openness, and empathy about issues regarding women and LGBTQ communities in a global context in verbal and non-verbal interactions with culturally different others.
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