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department Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (X) |
Even before the formal establishment of the United States, assumptions about sex have helped determine who is entitled to - and not entitled to - the privileges and protections of full citizenship. This course investigates the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality have played in configuring notions of citizenship over time as well as the ways in which sexual rights remain a site of contestation and struggle in the modern United States.
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The objective of the course is to provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge, engage feminist epistemologies, and employ feminist methodologies in working on a research project over the course of the semester in each student's area of interest.
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This seminar examines body image issues from a variety of historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives. Topics include the historical emergence of anorexia and other eating disorders, the influence of the popular media, feminist critiques of the diet industry, body image activism, and hunger as metaphor.
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In what ways do sexuality and desire frame our contemporary experiences of consumption, and how do unequal distributions of global power influence the relationship between producers of globally marketed goods and services and those who consume them? Topics include sex tourism, migrant domestic labor, international adoption and surrogacy, and the commercialization of same-sex desire.
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Like any ideology, feminism has a history, one that is neither linear nor steadily progressive, and an uneven past full of paradoxes, contestation, and ambivalence. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to feminist theoretical conceptions of the social, political, economic, and the human. We will explore texts from different cultures and interrogate the rise of gender-based discourses and social movements in the context of the broader considerations of modernity, democracy, and liberal humanism.
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The course explores feminism's long and contentious relationship with psychoanalysis. From its inception, women were intensely involved in the psychoanalytic enterprise as- patients, analysts, and critics. Sexuality is at the core of psychoanalysis, and as a result the status of men and women, maleness and femaleness, masculinity and femininity, have been subject to continual debate. Through historical exploration of these issues we ask if, how, and why psychoanalysis matters to feminist theory and practice today.
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Based on theoretical debates between feminism and science and different understandings of health, illness, and healing, we explore the role of women, the medical profession, and various social institutions in constructing knowledge about gender and health. Among the issues we discuss are health behaviors, reproductive health, STDs, mental health, cancer, and aging. Throughout, we identify differences among women and men of different class, race, and ethnic groups.
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Making the case for what Deepika Bahri identifies as the "constitutive" role of gender in colonial formations, this course will examine the feminization of colonized peoples and crises in European masculinity, the myth of the black male sexual threat, and the notion of European women's moral authority. Yet we will also consider the importance of gender to national projects and postcolonial theorizations. We will read cultural history, literary theory, and literary works in this course.
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Study of Female Genital Circumcision/Mutilation/Cutting (FGC) as an occasion to consider multi-methodological issues involved in understanding women's health/bodies. Special emphasis on the impact of different kinds of accounts on our understanding of women's bodies, including social, anthropological, and biomedical, from first-, second- and third-person perspectives. Topics include: FGC, bodies in context, dis(ease) in Diaspora, embodiment, physicality of the mental, and new directions for women's health.
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An examination of the ways in which feminist and gay-rights movements envision gender for purposes of governance, and the ways in which they have put their visions into effect as governance. Our subject will be the specific theoretical ideas and their concrete implementation in domestic and international law, NGO expertise, and public-opinion-making advocacy. Topics include human rights law, humanitarian law, labor law, and family law.
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How did social forces in the 18th and 19th centuries shape (and contest) new theories of womanhood, sexuality, and political equality? Readings from a variety of literary and political sources, including "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," "Moll Flanders," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." Areas of inquiry: prostitution, the suffrage movement, motherhood, property rights, psychology, manliness, sexology, Victorian pornography.
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We examine Hollywood's and Independent cinema's response to the radical social movements of the 1960s, in particular, black power, women's liberation, and gay liberation movements. We look at a variety of primary source materials - films, movement literature, novels, and film reception literature- and use them to understand, historically and methodologically, the complex interactions between social change movements and popular culture. Films include "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Boys in the Band," "Shaft" and others
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A diagnosis and analysis of this formative decade for the US babyboomer. Taught from a cultural studies perspective, the course focuses on gender politics in print media, film, television, and rock of the early cold war era. Topics include: the bomb and TV, the Rosenberg trial, early civil rights movement, beat generation, Hollywood dreams of true love, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Jack Kerouac, Joe McCarthy, Rosa Parks, and others.
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To address the challenges facing communities of color, it is important to understand how race, gender, social class, nationality, and other identities intersect with each other, as well as with social structural forces and policies. We will examine intersectional theories and applications in public policy and research. The advantages of utilizing intersectional analysis to elucidate policy discourse on education, health and health care, welfare, and other key issues in African-American communities will be highlighted.
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An overview of major questions raised by the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, and sexuality and the challenges thus raised to traditional divisions of knowledge. Our approach will be contemporary and our subjects will range across history, science, economics, literature, and film, moving through feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories, towards an examination of how such fields as public health, medicine, education, and law have been forever changed by gender theory since WW II.
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This course will involve students in experiential learning in community agencies that serve women, girls, and/or gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. The course will require students to apply feminist theory to the challenges of organized social change. Internship placements of 8 hours a week in a community agency or non-profit organization must be approved by the instructors, in projects that advance students' knowledge of the intersection of identities, feminist ideologies, and feminist praxis.
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Rejecting what Anne McClintock calls "bogus universals" like "the postcolonial woman," this course will examine how postcolonial women's writing represents and resists local and imperial power, developing a more complex understanding of agency. But our readings of literary and critical texts will also ask us to scrutinize the very suitability of the term "postcolonial." Our authors will include Michelle Cliff, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jessica Hagedorn, and Arundhati Roy, among others.
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Examines the possibilities and pitfalls of a specifically "queer" understanding of gender, sexuality, culture, history, and politics. Special attention will be given to the international sweep and limits of queerness as conceptual category and identity (and anti-identity) formation in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, nationality, and class as well as artistic production and activism. Works by Butler, Sedgwick, Foucault, Rubin, Halperin, Warner, Wittig, Bersani, Cohen, Lorde, Halberstam, Califia, Stryker, Quiroga, Najmabadi, and many others.
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Two questions that animate U.S. religious debate in the twenty-first century are how to understand human sexuality and what the Bible says about it. This course explores these questions in a critical historical context. By focusing on particular texts (e.g. Genesis, the New Testament, early Christian writings) and themes (e.g. women, asceticism, marriage, Incarnation) we will observe how conceptions of embodiment, sex/gender/sexuality, and the human, have shifted and continue to change within Christian thought.
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Critical exploration of the scientific literature underlying the idea that female/male, gay/straight, and transgendered behaviors are based on fundamental differences in brain physiology. Includes a close reading of original scientific papers, to analyze theoretical presuppositions and interpretation of experimental data. Goal is to understand the science underlying sex/gender and popular conceptions of sex. Topics include: making sex, hormone action, brain and sexual behaviors, sex and cognition, and sex and sexuality/gender identification.
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The study of selected topics in studies of women, gender, and sexuality.
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The study of selected topics in studies of women, gender, and sexuality.
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A critical investigation of the genre's enduring popularity, beginning with Austen's satirical Northanger Abbey and three novels credited with providing narrative templates for contemporary romances (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights). We will then read twentieth-century revisions of these works (Rebecca, The Wide Sargasso Sea, Bridget Jones's Diary). Topics: the female writer and reader/consumer of literature; moral warnings against romance, "sensation," and titillation; the commodification of desire; Harlequins; the relationship between high culture and low.
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