Government 231 - CLQ: WOMEN SOC MVMNT MID EAST

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Bozena Welborne
MW 02:45-04:00
Smith College
10577-F19
SEELYE 304
bwelborne@smith.edu
This course explores how women’s social movements emerge and sustain themselves in in the Middle East and North Africa. We will cover issues ranging from women agitating for citizenship rights and the vote to questions of personhood, family code, and women’s labor rights. Throughout the class, we consider how mobilized women negotiate a world of both contemporary and traditional, religious and secular values to pursue their agendas in the public arena. Students leave this course with a fuller appreciation of the variety of issues around which women mobilize in the region as well as an understanding of the diverse strategies they adopt to meet their chosen goals.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.