Gender, War, and Peace
Dr. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu
Office hrs.
Mondays 4.00---6.40 p.m. Class
room: SH 216
& by
appointment Office:
AL 342
This course is an interdisciplinary study of women’s relation to war, peace and militarism, the theoretical debates over women as “essentially” maternal and therefore more pacific; dependence of military policy on notions of masculinity and femininity; war and militarism providing women’s greater opportunities for advancement and equality; relationship between war, militarism, gender inequality and racism; similarity and difference between personal violence against women and state supported violence; relationship between feminism and peace activism. Through the lens of feminist understandings of peace and conflict, we will address the above issues. This course will be facilitated by guest speakers, films, and food.
Goals of the course
· Analyze the larger context of war and its gender
implications
· Identify issues of power created through cultural
constructions of
masculinities and
femininities
· Summarize the role of women’s movements in nationalist
and liberatory
movements
· Examine the gendered consequences of war
· Critique the assumptions about maternalism and
pacifism in women’s peace activism
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