WGST 330
Global Feminisms:
Coming of Age in the World

Fall 2003

Mondays and Thursdays
Section 01:  2:00-3:20 PM  Bliss 147
Section 02:  3:30-4:50 PM  Bliss 147

Instructor:  Janet Gray     gray@tcnj.edu
Office:  Bliss 219    x2163

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Premises of the course

• The status of children is deeply connected to the status of women, and local and global movements for the rights of children are deeply connected to local and global movements for the rights of women
• Childhood and adolescence, like gender, are social constructs; the norms that a society establishes for childhood are shaped by the interests and needs of the adult society in a given historical moment
• The social construction of childhood and adolescence is deeply intertwined with the construction of other categories of identity, including gender, race, sexuality, class, and nation
• Together with love and concern for the future, nostalgia, sentimentality, and othering all play a role in how adult societies construct childhood
• Children themselves are agents and creators of culture as they adapt to and often resist adult constructions of childhood and other categories of identity
• In very complex ways, the construction of childhood and adolescence today occurs on a globally interrelated scale

http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/