For whether referred to as the “Third World,” or other variants such as the “Developing World,” the “G-77,” the “Non-Aligned Movement,” or the “Post-colonial World,” a certain unity has long been assumed for the multitude of societies ranging from Central and South America, across Africa to much of Asia. The foregoing provides students with a critical lens to examine the ambiguities of the identity of the Global South. Discussions will center on global political and economic processes that have shaped the current contours of the Global South, such as colonialism, the Cold War, development narratives, foreign aid and humanitarian intervention, neoliberal globalization, and the rise of BRICs as a global challenge to the North. We will situate the various issues, events, and topics within a global political and economic context. This course explores the politics of the Third World/Global South from an International Relations perspective. As a whole, this course aims to give students a sense of the topics, methods, and questions that are central to women's, gender, and sexuality studies. In other words, students will be expected to draw connections between the sections and to relate material assigned at the beginning of the semester to what follows. Although the syllabus is divided into three distinct parts, these units are designed to complement one another. The third part of the course tackles issues of gender and globalization: in addition to studying the movement of bodies, capital, and things across geopolitical borders, we will also zero in on transnational feminist approaches to labor organizing and environmental justice. In the second part of the class, we will foreground questions of gender as we investigate the emergence of the modern nation-state alongside histories of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and war. The first part of the course explores the gendered regulation of bodies in relation to the rise of western science and the invention of sexual and racial difference. Together, we will unpack the assumptions that underlie popular and academic discussions about sexed bodies, gender identities, and sexual desires, and we will examine the ways in which scholars, activists, and other feminist thinkers attempt to dismantle dominant power structures and enact lasting social change. The rest of the syllabus, which is organized into three parts, showcases scholarship that takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social construction of sex, gender, and sexuality. As such, we will begin the semester by learning about the field's history and conclude the class by considering its future. This introductory course invites students to the explore the field of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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