Dec 26, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2024-25 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2024-25
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POLS 5780 - Feminist Political Theories and Movements


Explores feminist work as both a vital critical perspective and a source of alternative and transformative visions. Examine mechanisms and manifestations of patriarchy as they play out across fields of struggle–cultural, social, economic, as well as traditional political spaces. The relationship between patriarchal forms of oppression and other practices of domination–race, sexuality, class, or ethnicity based critically analyzed. Normative visions generated from feminist perspectives explored as alternatives to patriarchal orderings.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to critically assess feminist alternatives and commitments to non-domination.
  • Students will be able to identify a range of understandings of oppression.
  • Students will have an understanding of intersectionality.
  • Students will have an understanding of the meanings of patriarchy and be able to identify these understandings with a range of traditions in feminist work and contemporary practices.



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