This course is designed to introduce you to key elements of feminism and the global feminist movement. In particular, it focuses on contemporary feminist protest movements and activism relating to or resulting from processes of globalisation. Core concerns include exploring how a feminist politics is mobilised through online spaces that are coordinated and negotiated globally, as well as considering varieties of feminism and local forms of feminism. Topics examined may include: the historical development of feminism, feminist analyses of online spaces and misogyny, feminist civil protest, global campaigns relating to issues of gender and sexuality, the deployment of feminist concerns in 'wars' against global terrorism, intersections between feminism and movements and scholarship relating to diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and debates surrounding feminist environmentalism. Through examination of these issues, you are introduced to concepts such as intersectionality, post-feminism, transnational feminism, feminist universalism, postcolonial feminism, and 'third wave' feminism. The course is designed to familiarise students interested in or seeking to work on global gender issues with major areas of concern to global feminist activists, and to develop students' critical understanding of the strategies, successes, shortcomings, and points of contention in these movements.