PSCI 420Gender and Global Politics

Students will use the lens of gender to critically engage with the structures, interests, institutions and practices of international relations, including sovereignty, the UN, political economy, climate and health, and security. They will learn methods and approaches to studying global politics from a gendered perspective. Students will analyze primary sources (such as treaties, speeches, policies, and popular culture) as well as secondary sources in global politics to understand gendered power and gendered silences, how discourses of gender shape global politics, and how actual human bodies challenge those discourses.