| source Georgetown (X) |
level |
department Women's and Gender Studies (X) |
-01) This course introduces students to the discipline of womenâs and gender studies. We will explore the broadly and critically defined âgenealogiesâ of womenâs studies and investigate the key concepts, theoretical debates, ideologies, and historical significance of the discipline. Learning and borrowing from Sophocles to Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf to Audre Lorde, we, in a self-reflexive manner, attempt to construct a theoretical framework that will be helpful, productive, and challenging to our intellectual and practical pursuit of a juster world in which both women and men can celebrate themselves and each other. In this endeavor, special emphases will be given to the issues of violence, militarism, human rights, sexuality and body, labor, domesticity, and social activism. The investigation of these issues will be put in the context of related, but distinct, intellectual interrogations of race, class, nationality, ethnicity, and sexual orientations in the disciplines of cultural studies, race theory, postcolonial studies, and gay/lesbian studies.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will interrogate the multiple ways in which representational practices condition formations of gender and sexuality, as they intersect with race and class. We will consider various understandings of representation, practices of looking, gender, and sexuality through the work of theorists such as Gayle Rubin, Laura Mulvey, bell hooks, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Judith Halberstam. Themes include: subjectivity and self-representation; vision, power, and the gaze; the body and sexuality; and the links between representations and identities. Always at the forefront of attention, however, are the politics of visuality, which are analyzed through the conceptual prisms of feminist, postmodernist, queer, and critical race theories.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
The aim of this course is to provide understanding of the rise and restructuring of the welfare state in post-industrial democracies and the ways in which these have shaped the gender order. We will use general international comparisons, but also focus on special issues. The US minimalist welfare state regime will be compared to European Union member states from a general dimension with the aim of showing the ways in which motherhood and care are organized. Organizational structure, child care, early childhood education and care services, and employment patterns of various countries will be discussed with their corresponding views on the roles of women and men, with some mention of the roles of children.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
This course provides an overview of the theoretical, historical and political contexts within which the fields of queer theory and sexuality and gender studies operate. It highlights topics such as the emergence of modern sexual identity, LGBT rights, queer community-building and world-making, and transgender politics. Specific attention will be paid to the gendered, raced and classed dimensions of sexual politics.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Women's human rights issues have been conspicuously absent from post-World War II efforts to promote and protect human rights. This course looks to the critical work of activists and scholars from around the world to assess the human rights framework in terms of its successes and failures in advancing women's rights. We will examine country-specific cases of human rights abuses and activism in order to develop an understanding of the nature of sex-specific human rights abuses, including violence against women in conflict, trafficking of women and institutional discrimination and the different means used to combat them. Fall and Spring.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Fall and Spring.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
-01) This course introduces students to the discipline of womenâs and gender studies. We will explore the broadly and critically defined âgenealogiesâ of womenâs studies and investigate the key concepts, theoretical debates, ideologies, and historical significance of the discipline. Learning and borrowing from Sophocles to Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf to Audre Lorde, we, in a self-reflexive manner, attempt to construct a theoretical framework that will be helpful, productive, and challenging to our intellectual and practical pursuit of a juster world in which both women and men can celebrate themselves and each other. In this endeavor, special emphases will be given to the issues of violence, militarism, human rights, sexuality and body, labor, domesticity, and social activism. The investigation of these issues will be put in the context of related, but distinct, intellectual interrogations of race, class, nationality, ethnicity, and sexual orientations in the disciplines of cultural studies, race theory, postcolonial studies, and gay/lesbian studies.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will examine a variety of feminist theories--from eighteenth and nineteenth century writers such as Wollstonecraft and Mill through the radical feminist discourse of Ti-Grace Atkinson and Shulamith Firestone to contemporary writers and activists. The class will focus on central and recurring debates within feminist theory and practice: debates between essentialism and social constructionism; between liberal reformism and radical transformation; between the politics of sameness and the politics of difference. We will also examine how feminist theories have attempted to reckon with the challenges of poststructuralism and the critiques offered by women of color. The intersections of race/ethnicity and class with the category of gender will also offer a central analytic strand throughout the course. Fall.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will interrogate the multiple ways in which representational practices condition formations of gender and sexuality, as they intersect with race and class. We will consider various understandings of representation, practices of looking, gender, and sexuality through the work of theorists such as Gayle Rubin, Laura Mulvey, bell hooks, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Judith Halberstam. Themes include: subjectivity and self-representation; vision, power, and the gaze; the body and sexuality; and the links between representations and identities. Always at the forefront of attention, however, are the politics of visuality, which are analyzed through the conceptual prisms of feminist, postmodernist, queer, and critical race theories.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
The aim of this course is to provide understanding of the rise and restructuring of the welfare state in post-industrial democracies and the ways in which these have shaped the gender order. We will use general international comparisons, but also focus on special issues. The US minimalist welfare state regime will be compared to European Union member states from a general dimension with the aim of showing the ways in which motherhood and care are organized. Organizational structure, child care, early childhood education and care services, and employment patterns of various countries will be discussed with their corresponding views on the roles of women and men, with some mention of the roles of children.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Women's human rights issues have been conspicuously absent from post-World War II efforts to promote and protect human rights. This course looks to the critical work of activists and scholars from around the world to assess the human rights framework in terms of its successes and failures in advancing women's rights. We will examine country-specific cases of human rights abuses and activism in order to develop an understanding of the nature of sex-specific human rights abuses, including violence against women in conflict, trafficking of women and institutional discrimination and the different means used to combat them. Fall and Spring.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page
Fall and Spring.
Score: 11.409142 Details | Listing | Web page