The purpose of this course is to critically discuss feminist theories from the global South. The course will focus on the ways in which race, nationalism; class, ethnicity and colonialism have influenced and defined the life experiences of women from the global south. Based on post-colonial feminist theories, the course aims to bring to the forefront the narratives and voices of those women who were defined and constructed as the subordinated, indigenous, and voiceless others.

The course will be based largely on canonical texts written by feminist scholars from the global south, in order to expose students to these texts and to discuss their epistemological importance in challenging western liberal perceptions. These perceptions place and construct the global south as the unchanging, subordinate other. In which women are perceived as part of a monolithic category, victims of patriarchy, and deprived of agency.