This unit provides an introduction to key debates and feminist perspectives on around gender and international relations. Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between gender and security, with a particular focus on violence during armed conflict and war. The unit will examine gender relations in the global political economy and how they relate to current global economic and development policymaking. The unit also looks closely at how gender identities underpins the construction of national identity, culture and religion, and the role of the (global) media and transnational feminism in shaping and contesting these identities. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr. Swati Parashar
Prerequisites: For a major in politics, a first year sequence in politics; for a major in gender studies, a first year sequence in gender studies; Students may take this unit as an elective without any pre-requisite with a first year Arts sequence or the equivalent.
