Sociology 216MV - Special Topics in Sociology: 'Gender and Social Movements'

This course will focus on the relations between gender, politics, and social change to explore the gendered character of citizenship, political participation, and mobilization. We'll start by considering what makes a social movement, who mobilizes, and what resistance has, does, and can look like in practice. Students will engage with historical and contemporary cases of feminist and women's social movements to explore how gender constructs both formal political participation and activism. We will explore how feminist and women's movements have contributed to alternative practices of politics and visions of social change and wellbeing.

Prereq: SOCI-123.