ECOLOGICAL FEMINISMS

Course Content: This course will examine the feminist approaches to environmental crisis. It will explore the ways gender affects our understanding of and interactions with nature. It will cover the core questions and debates that feminist critique brings to the environmental agenda and analyze the alternative visions that feminist perspectives create in response to the ecological crisis. The course will look at concrete environmental struggles around to globe to map out the connections between gender, feminism, and the environment. It will cover an array of issues varying from climate change to medicine and disease, population, migration, disasters, and conflicts.