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City University of New York - Introduction to Women's Studies: Sex, Gender, and Power

An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of women. From the first and second waves of feminism to girl power's cyberactivism and empowerment through femininity. Material and social constructions of sex and gender. Power and dynamics, which drive and structure women's lives. Expressions and representations of women's experiences.
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City University of New York - Women and the Creative Arts: Arts, Crafts, and Music

Aspects of American women's experience reclaimed from their own records in arts, crafts, letters, diaries, and folk songs. How criteria have been established for defining "art"; the social influences that encouraged women to limit themselves to certain "acceptable" media. Contemporary validation of women's creativity. Readings, slide presentations, and audio-video presentations.
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City University of New York - Contemporary U.S. Women Writers: Diverse Cultural Perspectives

Literature of selected contemporary Native American, African American, Latina, Asian American, and other women writers, analyzed from the perspective of feminist literary theories. A comparative course focusing on the literature of two or more groups.
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City University of New York - Women's Sexualities

Interdisciplinary study of women's sexualities. Women's lives and strategies of lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people's survival, primarily in male-dominated societies. Struggle for lesbian, bisexual and transgendered self-expression in historical and cultural context. Past and present views of women's sexualities. Interrelationship of feminist, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered movements. Materials drawn from history, psychology, sociology, literature, and the arts.
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City University of New York - Women and the Medical System: a Feminist Perspective

Modern medical systems and women's place as medical workers and consumers of medical services. History of women healers and health workers. Influences of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation on illness and treatment of women. Politics of contraception, sterilization, abortion, and childbirth. Self-help care movement.
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City University of New York - Sex, Power, Money: Political Economy of Women in the United States

Economic and political analysis of women's power in United States society. Women as paid workers in the formal economic structure and as unpaid workers in the parallel home economy. Social class, gender, and race in the allocation of economic and political power. Formal and informal challenges to the legal and political system.
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City University of New York - Sex, Power, Money: Political Economy of Women in the United States

Economic and political analysis of women's power in the United States society. Women as paid workers in the formal economic structure and as unpaid workers in the parallel home economy. Social class, gender, and race in the allocation of economic and political power. Formal and informal challenges to the legal and political system.
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City University of New York - Women and Reproductive Rights

An interdisciplinary course on women's experiences of fertility control, childbirth, sex education, teen pregnancy, reproductive technologies, and reproductive hazards. Major themes include the influences of historical period, political perspectives, race, ethnicity, and social class on the perceptions and realities of reproductive rights for women.
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City University of New York - Women in the Cities

Problems women experience as part of city living, including housing, employment, crime, health care, childcare, education, community involvement, family responsibility, and social supports. Study of presently services available to women. Critique of institutional responses to women's needs. Focus on the influence of ethnicity, race, and social class on women's urban experiences.
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City University of New York - Women and Politics in the United States

Women and politics in the context of the United States of America. Gaining the right to vote; the Equal Rights Amendment; women as political leaders; racial and ethnic diversity of U.S. women; the "gender gap." Policy issues including the feminization of poverty and social welfare.
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City University of New York - Gender and Political Theory

Analysis of political concepts of identity, power, citizenship, race, nation and class in relation to gender and sexuality. Examination of the way ideologies of gender are deployed within the political theory tradition. Sameness/difference debate, identifying the forms of gender-based domination and resistance, and antiracist approaches to feminism.
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City University of New York - Politics and Sexuality

Examination of the theory and practice of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics in the U.S. including: the many ways the state regulates sexuality and gender through law and policy; the emergence of moder civil rights movement of sexual minorities, and brings in several theoretical approaches including queer theory, Black queer studies, and transgender studies.
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City University of New York - Women in Modern Europe

History of women in Europe from the Industrial and French Revolutions to the present. Change in and interaction of women's economic, social, and political roles, and relationship of these to contemporary concepts of women's nature.
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City University of New York - Daughters of the Promised Land: Women in American History

The history of women in the United States, with emphasis on the last two centuries. Gender intersections with race, class, and ethnicity in the areas of work, personal relationships, and control over reproduction. Women in organizations of labor, religion, and politics, including the feminist movements. Changing images of women.
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City University of New York - The Black Woman in America

Interpretation and critical evaluation of the history, role, and image of the Black woman in America; emphasis on the burdens of racism, sexism, the economy, the Black "matriarch," health care, feminism and womanism, and contemporary issues.
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City University of New York - Gender and the Information Age

An interdisciplinary study of gender in cyberculture, science, and technology. The evolutions of gender and feminist theories as well as activism will be considered in terms of rapid advances in technology and sciences information.
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City University of New York - Black Women's Fiction

Black women novelists, short story writers, and essayists. Cross-cultural comparisons with African and Caribbean novelists. Readings of selected essays in Black feminist criticism.
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City University of New York - Philosophy and Feminism

Philosophical feminism. Critical examination of current issues in feminist scholarship. Issues of discrimination, equality, and difference; women in relation to science, epistemology, and political and moral philosophy.
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City University of New York - Women in Film

The various images of women in film from the beginning to the present. Readings and discussions of myths, fears, and fantasies that have led to the production of such images. The star system and its relationship to women performers. Screenings include films made by and about women.
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City University of New York - African Women and Feminism

Women's power, activism, and inequality on the basis of gender in the African continent. Explorations of gender-based inequality and the way African women exercise formal power. African women scholars' and activists' theoretical and practical analyses of feminism and the consequences of such analyses on gender relations in the continent. Theoretical readings and case studies. Course may have a national, regional, or continental focus.
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City University of New York - Dialogue to Truth: the Female Voice in Education

Introduction to female educators and their contribution to our understanding of curriculum, pedagogy and schooling.
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City University of New York - History of Feminism

Definitions of feminism; feminists in the Renaissance and early modern Europe; feminist demands arising from the French Revolution; early radical feminism in the United States, France, and the Germanies; liberal and Marxist feminism; women's movements from the 1850s to World War I in the West; the development of women's movements outside of Europe and America; imperialism, feminism, and national independence; the "second wave": women's liberation movements since 1968.
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City University of New York - Women, War, and Peace

An interdisciplinary study of women's relation to war, peace, and militarism, the theoretical debate over women as "essentially" maternal and therefore more pacifistic; dependence of military policy on notions of masculinity and femininity; war and militarism providing women greater opportunities for advancement and equality; relationship between war, militarism, gender inequality and racism; similarity and differences between personal violence against women (rape, battering) and state organized and supported violence; relationship between feminism and peace activism.
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City University of New York - Feminist Theories

A focus on theories, conceptual developments, debates, epistemological and methodological issues. Critical interrogation of different feminist intellectual traditions. Important feminist theories examined include: liberal feminism; radical feminism; Marxist feminism/socialist feminism; postmodern feminism; postcolonial feminism. Feminist traditions examined from explicitly interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting methodological contributions made by feminist scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds.
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City University of New York - Women and the Contemporary Economy

History of the socioeconomic position of women; evidence on the changing economic position of women in the post-civil rights era; assessments of the welfare-to-work transition; political economy of marriage and childbearing decisions.
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