Global Gendered Politics

You are to submit a final written project in Word: A four-page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins) essay in which you respond to either of the following questions (Runyan, Chapter 6, Activities for Further Research #2 or #3—see below). To be submitted via Always UC. (30 points or 30%)

2. Review the websites of such global South-based and global North-based NGOs as Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (at http://www.dawnnet.org/feminist-resources/), Madre (https://www.madre.org/), Women Living Under Muslim Laws (at http://www.wluml.org/), and Women in Black (at http://womeninblack.org/about-women-in-black/). How are they informed by perspectives of women across the global South and North? How do they interconnect their issues, struggles, and even in some cases organizations? What does this tell us about coalition-building and feminist global justice organizing in practice?

3. Actively participating in global justice movements, actions, and projects broadly-defined can be particularly empowering. Consider the testimonies of women who participated in the Arab Spring protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt in “Four Voices, One Revolution” (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVMVc_8fzO0), “Women Climate Defenders” from different parts of the world (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdzsFdhMMDI), and women, men, and children at the Washington, DC Women’s March in “Why I March” (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc2GepjlWLQ). How is this kind of empowerment different from market-based or power-over empowerment? How can it inform and bring about alternative relations at local, national, and global level? Why is it just as important to study global justice movements as the actions of states and IGOs to understand and to change global politics?