Feminist Perspectives on War and Terror

Feminist Perspectives on War and Terror is a crosslisted Interdisciplinary Arts/Social Science class taught by Rachel Zaslow.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
What are the lived experiences, cultures and historical contexts of war? Through theater, film, and activist projects this course will allow students to grasp the complex national, racial, sexual and gendered mappings of war and to grapple with reconfigurations of gendered, raced, classed, sexual and national subjectivities linked to war. The global focus of this course will cover topics ranging from genocide and gang membership to transnational labor organizing, where nation-building, urban gender practices, labor regimes and production practices are often dependent on legacies of war, terror and state terror, informing everything from shopfloor relations to economic development strategies, labor migration and neighborhood geographies to anti-labor management practices in export-oriented factory production. Using a feminist lens we will deconstruct and reconstruct acts of terror and war as a performance of power, identity and nation-building.