HIST 378 - African Feminisms

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and alternate years.

Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course critically examines the idea of African feminisms by looking at many different intersections of time, place. and position for African women. This traces multiple ways in which African women have sought to challenge patriarchal roles in both precolonial and (post)colonial contexts. Students leave not with an understanding of a singular or aspirational African feminism but rather with an appreciation of the ways in which African women have and continue to challenge. reframe, and negotiate a variety of social and political positions. Tallie.