HI 227 - Radical Women in Contemporary World History

Credits: 4
Students examine the critical essays, speeches, memoirs, documentaries, performance art work, and organizational work of a diverse group of women throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century world who specifically articulated demands for justice. As a class, students also review how each of these women defined justice; the limits and potentials of the justice they invoked; the context and uniqueness of their work; the reactions they received from their peers and wider society; and how questions of race, class, gendered norms, and sexuality affected and/or inspired their calls for change.

Liberal Arts Perspective(s): History and Politics, Global Diversity and Justice
Foundations Requirement(s):