| source UC Santa Cruz (X) |
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department Feminist Studies (X) |
Examines the institutions and discourses of global health and reproduction from a perspective informed by feminist reimagining of the relationship between the body and society, with special focus on links between conceptions of health and international development projects. Prerequisite(s): courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Core course for feminist studies. Introduces a gendered analysis of philosophical, scientific, historical, economic, political, and cultural issues from feminist perspectives, emphasizing complexities of globalization, class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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Seminars taught by upper-division students under faculty supervision. (See
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Explores feminist theories from domestic U.S. and global contexts in order to ask how interventions of women of color in the U.S. and of radical feminist movements in non-U.S. locations radically re-imagine feminist politics. Rather than focusing on feminist movements that represent different regions of the world, course examines feminist theory through multiple histories of colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalization. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.)
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Considers the nature of scientific practice, the culture of science, and criteria for the responsible practice of science. Particular attention is given to feminist commitments to strengthening objectivity, increasing scientific literacy, and including ethical considerations in the practice of science. Enrollment limited to 80. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Explores how war films, media, and political discourses about war and violence shape and transform ideas about national identity. Focuses on how ideas about gender, sexuality, race, and class have particularly affected representations of military conflicts. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines historical constructions and contemporary deployments of the categories that have structured anthropological understandings of social life in South Asia, particularly those of "tribe," "caste," and "women." Students gain familiarity with the mobilization of these categories in contemporary political movements across India. Enrollment limited to 30. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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An exploration of the sociological position of women as composers and performers in Western and non-Western musics, with a focus on both ethnographic and historical sources. (Also offered as Music 80S. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Offered in alternate academic years. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, A.)
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Examines violence against women of color and analyzes the relationship between sexual/domestic violence and institutional structures of violence. Explores the development of organizing strategies against violence. Issues covered may include: domestic/sexual violence, colonialism and violence, prisons/INS detention, police brutality, violence and the economy, religion/spirituality and violence, medical experimentation, reproductive rights, and militarism/border violence. Enrollment limited to 40. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.)
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Core course for feminist studies. Serves as an introduction to thinking theoretically about issues of feminism within multiple contexts and intellectual traditions. Sustained discussion of gender and its critical connections to productions of race, class, and sexuality. Focus will change each year. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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Working from the perspective that race is a cultural invention and racism is a political, economic, and social relation, investigates how "race" is produced as a meaningful and powerful social category, examines the effects of racism as a social relation, and argues for the necessity of combining feminist and critical race studies. By considering different historical periods and places, aims to equip students with the tools necessary to critically examine the production and reproduction of race and racism in the U.S. Prerequisite(s): one course from feminist studies. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines various ways of representing women's lives, including autobiography, oral history, community studies, fiction, etc. Particular attention to intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, to the ways in which individuals are situated in communities, and to the relationship between author and subject.
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Advanced introduction to contemporary writings of black women in U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean, focusing on relationship between these different sites of production in context of struggles against colonialism and patriarchy. Organized around theme of perception, divided into three main parts: Part I treats texts directing our attention to different orders of perception; Part II includes three novels with psychological problems at their center; and Part III turns to issue of tradition and conflicts of contemporary black women in relation to gender, class, and nationality. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Interdisciplinary approach to study of law in its relation to category "women" and production of gender. Considers various materials including critical race theory, domestic case law and international instruments, representations of law, and writings by and on behalf of women living under different forms of legal control. Examines how law structures rights, offers protections, produces hierarchies, and sexualizes power relations in both public and intimate life. (Also offered as Politics 112. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to feminist studies, politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only.
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Examines migration as a mode of inquiry into transnational practices across geographic locales and temporal zones. Analyzes migration in relation to the transnational formation of gender, race, and sexuality as well as processes of neocolonialism, the state, and globalization. Prerequisite(s): course 1, 80C, 100, or 145. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines recent approaches to the ethonographic representation of transnationalism as both a conscious strategy for feminist alliance and as a condition of global political economy. Topics covered include feminist anthropology, non-governmental organizations, human and reproductive rights, and international peace movements. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or 80C. Enrollment limited to 30.
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Considers both the research on gender in African studies and the role of gender in the production of the idea of Africa. Focuses attention through the humanities on the meaning-making of and about Africa in its global context. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirement. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W, E.)
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Explores the emergence of transnational feminism through U.S. women of color and postcolonial feminism. Underscores the role of globalization, nationalism, and state formation in relation to feminist theorizing, activism, and labor across the Global South. In an attempt to understand the salience of inequalities, the course interrogates the continuation of feminst critique that is attentive to the war on terror, neocolonialism, and empire. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or 80C. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 40. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Explores relationship between feminism and culture. Topics will vary and include different forms of cultural production such as film and literature. Regional/national focus will also vary. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or 80C. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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Introduction to analyzing technology as it is produced through gender, race, class, and sexualized differences. Examines film and the Internet through the genealogy of these technologies in relation to U.S. nationalism, development, and empire, creating social communities and new identities, and the global production of labor. Examines interdisciplinary methods (ethnography, media analysis, cultural studies and, literary analysis) to broaden understanding of Latina/o subjectivity as historical construct mediated through various modes of visual production. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Introduces the analysis of visual images and text with particular emphasis on feminist critical methodologies. Using case studies from photography, film, TV, advertising, and new media, students learn how to read and analyze culture. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Introduces transnational networks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on a variety of issues. Critical feminist tools applied to aims, rhetoric, and outcomes of organizations in areas of student's individual interest. Topics and NGO orientation covered include sustainable development, microfinance, indigenous rights, and women's empowerment. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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Postcolonial feminist studies. Explores how discourses of gender and sexuality shaped the policies and ideologies of the historical processes of colonialism, the civilizing mission, and anticolonial nationalism. Considers orientalism as a gendered discourse as well as colonial understandings of gender and sexuality in decolonialization. Explores Western media representations, literature, the law, and the place of gender in the current debate between cultural relativism and universalism. Provides an understanding of some key terms in postcolonial studies and an in-depth examination of the place of gender in these processes. Prerequisite(s): courses 80C or 80F and course 100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Contemporary technoscientific practices, such as nano-, info-, and biotechnologies, are rapidly reworking what it means to be human. Course examines how both our understanding of the human and the very nature of the human are constituted through technoscientific practices. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or 80C; and course 100. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Considers African American women as central to understanding of U.S. history, focusing on everyday survival, resistance, and movements for social change. Discussion of critical theories for historical research, gender, and race. Emphasis on biography, cultural history, and documentary and archival research. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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