2008-09 BM2: Session 4

Did the Anglo Saxon world bring freedom and democracy into the world? Habeas corpus, religious tolerance, democratic institutions and the British Monarchy, the American Revolution… Civil Rights Movements and problems of identity politics: Anti-racism movements, feminist women's movement (women's suffrage; critique on role of hegemonic femininity: white, middle-class, educated, heterosexual; Sojourner Truth (1851): Ain't I a Woman?), Gay Rights movement (AIDS and Health politics)