SOC 356 - The Feminization of Poverty

The impoverishment of women is a relatively new global phenomenon. This class engages with the different ways in which women are structurally made poorer, more economically vulnerable, and more physically precarious in the 21st century. What changes in our social and political spheres have rendered this violence? We explore the gendered welfare state, globalized markets for both legal goods and illicit services, migrant labor streams, rampant sexual assault in educational and vocational settings, and the disparity between womens’ work and women’s wage labor to better understand the marginalization of women as agents in the anarchic penal state of late capitalism.

Satisfies a major requirement in Sociology.
Satisfies a requirement in the Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.