PHIL 323 - Philosophy of Third World Feminism (4)

Philosophical analyses of issues faced by women in their various third world contexts and feminist theorizing about third world women’s oppression, resistance and activism that is historically, socially, economically and geographically situated. This course analyzes how various factors of cultural, religious, economic and familial institutions, traditions and practices interact to shape women’s lives and their everyday experience of marginalization. The term “third world” is used in this course to enable critical engagement with its range of connotations. Feminist theorizing enables us to highlight how solidarity compliments equality in feminist consciousness in the third world contexts. Finally, third world feminist analyses also help us recognize dimensions of feminist agency and autonomy that would otherwise have remained underexplored. Odd years Spring.