Study Abroad & Exchange Programmes at Glasgow

This course introduces students to a variety of feminist perspectives on politics. The course examines key questions within the study of politics at the local and the global level; within and beyond state boundaries and at the intersection of offline/online activism to reveal how feminist perspectives transform understandings of politics and the political.

This course may not be running this year. For further information please check the Politics Moodle page or contact the subject directly.

Standard entry requirements to Honours Politics or International Relations.

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Reflective journal 4 x 400 word entries for 1600 word total (40%)

Compulsory essay 2000 words with optional second essay, 2000 words, highest grade counts (60%)

This course aims to explore a range of feminist theories and the differences between them. The first part of the course examines different approaches to history, power and the relationship between gender and class, race, sexuality and disability. The second part of the course applies these approaches from the local to the global, within and beyond state boundaries, to interrogate what we understand by resistance and 'the political'.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Demonstrate understanding of a variety of different feminist perspectives

■ Assess feminist contributions to understandings of politics and the political

■ Critically analyse the range of feminist approaches to the interrelation of race, class, sexuality, gender, and disability

■ Reflect critically on the role of feminist perspectives in their own daily politics

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.