Taught By:
Sally Eck
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
Portland State University
Course Description:
In about half of our time together in this course, we will be examining feminist scholarship and its applicability to our lives. We will analyze the influence of gender socialization, language, policy, and tradition on conditions of people in a variety of social institutions (religion, education, the economy, government, and family). We will think critically about the effects of difference and the role feminism plays in deconstructing these institutions in favor of co-creating positive social change. In about the other half of the class (or more!), we are going to attempt to actually do the social change through a social action project.
