Transnational Feminisms: Pedagogies and Syllabi
Welcome to Transnational Feminisms: Pedagogies and Syllabi. This collaborative project emerged from a course titled "Transnational Feminisms: Perspectives from South Asia and Beyond" taught by anthropologist Shilpa Phadke, who was Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor in South Asian Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in the spring of 2018. In exploring the parallels and frictions of women's movements across national boundaries, both undergraduate and graduate students compiled reading lists for specific themes and regions. We share their work here as a resource for anyone interested in exploring feminisms in these individual contexts, as well as a broader perspective on how feminism has been mobilized across the globe.
The endeavor is a reminder that any course is only a beginning and that one might imagine multiple ways of knowing. These syllabi are an both an acknowledgement of the situatedness of knowledge construction and an effort toward constructing knowledge from multiple locations, albeit at this point emanating from one university and one classroom.
It has not been easy to structure these diverse syllabi into categories for the purpose of this blog. We have chosen a largely geographical categorisation though of course the boundaries of these are far from rigid and there are many connections and slippages.
This blog has been put together by Doug Bafford, PhD student in Anthropology and Teaching Assistant for the course.
We have included the original syllabus that guided the course, which focused primarily on South Asian feminisms. Student contributions appear in the following four categories, which can also be navigated from the left-hand menu: