From Professor Grace Chang's Grassroots and Transnational Feminisms course at UCSB:

"Women are social justice leaders in their daily lives, in individual and collective acts of resistance, in local communities and transnationally. In this course, we will examine some of the salient issues that poor women, women of color, immigrant women, Third World women, incarcerated women, women with disabilities, and queer people confront and resist around the world. It is not intended to be a survey of social movement histories, but a consideration of contemporary social justice issues that impact and are impacted by women through various means of resistance and social justice organizing. These include organizing against welfare deform, prisons, reproductive rights abuses, globalization, and human trafficking, and for civil, immigrant, labor, welfare, sovereignty, prisoners', disability and queer rights."