Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course presents an overview of various forms of violence against women and girls from a global and human rights perspective through critical examination of social structures and psychological research. Contemporary attitudes towards women, children, power, aggression, sexuality, race and class will be investigated. Topics will include, rape, wife beating, incest, sexual harassment, sex trafficking, pornography, honor and dowry killing, and economic, psychiatric and military violence. The course will also consider the ways in which women are individually and collectively combating these various forms of violence. 