New MALAS Spring 2018 Seminar with Professor Anh Hua | WOMEN AND VIOLENCE

Women's Studies 572/MALAS 600C

Women and Violence

Women and Violence will examine the forms and types of violence against women, including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and socio-cultural, economic, political, and epistemic violence.  This course will focus on violence against women in the United States and globally.  Themes include:  

• context of violence against women; power and emotional dynamics in domestic violence
• the interrelation of gender, race, class and sexuality in interpersonal violence
• violence against women of color
• abuse in same-sex relationships
• media, sexual violence and the objectification of women’s bodies
• masculinity and violence; gender, war and violence
• gendered and sexual violence on university campuses
• politics of healing, empathy and global compassion
• and the use of art and creativity to heal various traumas