Since its emergence in the late 1970s as an interdisciplinary field, Women's Studies has been called the academic arm of the US women's movement. But why would the women's movement need an "academic arm"? What political ideas and ideals did the movement have that made the university a compelling and urgent site for intervention? We will approach these questions by exploring the "political imaginary" that shaped twentieth century US feminism, guiding many of the analyses and critical agendas on which contemporary Women's Studies continues to be based.
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The course is designed to introduce graduate students to major debates in womenÂs studies. Over the course of the semester we will investigate a number of contested concepts, themes, and issues. More specifically, we will explore the key categories of gender, sex, and sexuality; investigate the relationship between equality and difference; and debate controversial issues including the character and function of domestic service work, the status of sex work, and the use and/or abuse of reproductive technologies. Throughout the course we will consider the relationship between gender and other axes of difference like race, class, and sexuality, and think about how feminist projects could be crafted so that they attend to differences among gendered subjects.
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How have mediated technologies produced the image and experience of war? How has war shaped the history of representation? In this course, we will investigate the mediated production of war in photography, television, film, print media, and the internet, with specific attention to the gendered representations and gendered logics through which this production takes shape.We will examine the history of mediated perception in relation to the waging and the imaging of war, exploring the intimate intertwining of these processes in the modern era.Issues will include the modern convergence of media and event, the emergence and consolidation of the military-entertainment complex, and the changing modes of witnessing and experiencing war new media technologies engender. In exploring the history of war and media, we will ask in particular after the gendered modes of identification and embodimentÂthe production of gendered images, gendered bodies, and gendered subjectsÂwar representation conditions.
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This course serves as an in-depth introduction to the various theoretical frameworks that have informed and continue to inform scholarship in the field of WomenÂs Studies. Readings are drawn from a wide array of disciplinary arenas including law, political science, cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology, comparative ethnic studies, African American Studies, queer studies, postcolonial studies, and literary studies. We will begin by considering the general problem of womenÂs oppression, since it is this problem that has motivated feminist theoretical inquiry since mid-twentieth century. Our opening texts, all foundational in what we might call the second wave feminist archive, provide paradigmatic approaches to the origin, status, and practice of womenÂs oppression by raising questions about the organization of the social, the history of gender difference, the value of sexual difference, and the meaning and force of feminismÂs own attempt to speak for women. They beget in subsequent weeks a broad inquiry into how both women and feminism can know, while challenging us to confront the ethical implications of any feminist political or epistemological claim.
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Beginning with the groundbreaking writings of Fredrick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois a cadre of black male intellectuals and activists have aligned their work to feminist/Womanist politics within African-American (Black) life and culture. In many sectors though, the idea of a male feministÂlet alone a black male feministÂelicits disbelief, if not outright scorn. Black Male Feminism will examine an emergent generation of pro-feminist black men in the arts and the academy including scholars Michael Awkward, David Ikard, Gary Lemons, Mark Anthony Neal, and Maurice Wallace, journalist and activist Kevin Powell, arts critic Ernest Hardy, and filmmaker Byron Hurt. The course will examine Black Male FeminismÂs relationship to patriarchy, homophobia, Hip-hop, Black Nationalism, the Black Church, parenting and pedagogy. The course will also bring Black Male Feminism into conversation with the major theorists of Black Feminism including Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins and Aaronette White.
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This course is intended for graduate students who expect to be teaching about social inequalities, especially those of race, gender and class. What is the appropriate content to be teaching? What are the trade-offs among the various answers to that question? What are the trade-offs among various ways of presenting the content? How do our own characteristics--ideology, race, gender, age--affect the teaching process?
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