| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Feminist Studies (X) |
Introduction to central concepts and issues in women's studies from the perspective of the social sciences. Explores the construction of gender and sexuality and the lives of diverse groups of women in the contemporary U.S. within a global context.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 20, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Examines the impact of development policy and globalization on women's lives. Emphasis is placed on women's activism and feminist critiques of noe-liberal measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 30, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Examines cultural representations of diverse women's lives from a humanities perspective. The focus in on women as cultural producers, subjects, and critics in literature, film, the visual arts, and music.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 40, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Historical and contemporary examination of women's activism around the globe in a variety of struggles, including self-named feminist movements and other movements for social justice.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 50, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Examination of the interlocking dynamics and politics of gender, race, sexuality, class, and culture in the experience of U.S. women of color. Readings focus on oppositional consciousness and resistance to oppression in the scholarship and literature by women of color.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 60, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Examines LGBTQ studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Along with the historical, social, cultural, political, artistic, and literary rise to prominence of sexual minorities, the goal of the course is to integrate a discussion of the continuum of LGBTQ identities within their respective social contexts and communities.
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Lecture is concurrent with Women's Studies 80, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Research under the direction of a faculty member. Students are offered an opportunity to conduct independent or collaborative research or to act as interns for faculty-directed research projects.
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Critical reading and analysis of gender relations and the place of women in major intellectual traditions. Texts will be drawn from Plato, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Mill, Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, among others.
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Examines marriage customs and rituals in archaic and classical Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, and in the Roman Republic and Imperial periods within the context of social history, literary, historical, and epigraphic sources.
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Family structure; perceptions and ideals of intimate and familial relations; status, perceptions, and experiences of women in Western Europe c. 400-1400 a.d. Special attention on social, political, and religious contexts.
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What is women's work? How has it changed over time? How is it valued? Explores wage-earning, caregiving, sex work, housework, double days, glass ceilings, and strategies of survival and resistance among American women from various demographic, racial, and ethnic groups.
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The roles of women, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe. Exploration of the nature of women and revolution: religious, legal, scientific and popular conceptions of gender and sexuality; industrialization and family life, the rise of organized feminism.
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Investigation of the power that medicine has in shaping health experts' and lay individuals' understandings of health and health practices. Particular attention is paid to how women's health issues come to be seen as "social problems," past and present.
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Exploration of theoretical, popular, and political debates over reproductive technologies in terms of women's power and choices. Investigation of how cultural and historical changes in reproductive practices influence ideas about nature, society, and progress. Examination of case studies on current controversies.
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Examines the role of women in science, feminist critiques of science, gendered construction of technology and technological construction of gender, cross-cultural analysis of emerging technologies, and intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
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Exploration of feminists analyses and critiques of science in social, historical, and political contexts. How does science construct gender? How and why are women excluded from scientific discourses and practices? How have women transformed science, and what is "feminist science?"
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Develop tools to analyze cultural productions, narratives, images, and arguments about women, gender, reproduction, and science. Topics may vary.
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Investigation of the role of women in Eastern European cinema both in theirinvolvement in the industry and their portrayal on the screen in propagandaand beyond. Discussion of the cinemas of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the former Soviet Union.
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An opportunity to view films (animation, documentary, experimental and narrative), examine the specifics of media production, compare the various works produced by black women, and acquire the skills necessary for media criticism.
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