INST 313
Paradoxes of Human Rights: Addressing Violence Against Women
Fall 2014
Division II
Writing Skills
Cross-listed
ANTH 312 / WGSS 314
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Class Details
In recent decades, violence against women has become a major target for human rights activism. Most people take the connection between violence against women and human rights activism for granted. Yet gendered and sexual violence have only recently been framed as human rights issues. In this course, we examine this recent transformation, focusing on the paradoxes and possibilities of a human rights framework for addressing issues of gendered violence. We will do so by comparing different humanitarian and human rights-based interventions as they play out in places from Trinidad and Tobago to the American college campus. We’ll explore a range of research on the topic in order to complicate and expand our understanding of both gendered and sexual violence as well as the institutional interventions designed to engage it. Along the way, we will examine the history of human rights as a means to imagine social justice. In the first half of the course, we will read critical texts concerning violence, human rights, humanitarianism, and gender. We will then turn to historical and ethnographic studies of human rights, finishing with several case studies of human rights work on gender and violence.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 2009
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 2009
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
1.5 page response papers (3 total); midterm assignment (5-7 pages); final research paper (12-15 pages)
Prerequisites:
none; open to first year students
Enrollment Preferences:
Anthro and Sociology majors; WGSS majors
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ANTH 312 Division II INST 313 Division II WGSS 314 Division II
ANTH 312 Division II INST 313 Division II WGSS 314 Division II
Attributes:
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
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INST 313 - 01 (F) SEM Violence Against Women
INST 313 - 01 (F) SEM Violence Against WomenDivision II Writing SkillsJulia L. KowalskiMR 1:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Hollander 1402009
Megamenu Social