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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2017

L77 WGSS 100BIntroduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3.0 Units
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01M-W----11:30A-1:00PMallinckrodt / 303 CisloMay 9 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM23210
Desc:THIS SECTION IS RESERVED FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES ONLY.
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02M-W----1:00P-2:30PMallinckrodt / 303 CisloMay 10 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM20190
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03-T-R---8:30A-10:00ALouderman / 461 Brumbaugh WalterMay 5 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM20180
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04-T-R---11:30A-1:00PSeigle / 104 SangreyMay 8 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM25280
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05-T-R---2:30P-4:00PMallinckrodt / 303 BarounisMay 10 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM22200
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06-T-R---10:00A-11:30ASeigle / L003 BolivarMay 9 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM20200
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07M-W----2:30P-4:00PMallinckrodt / 303 MiyatsuMay 8 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM22190
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08-T-R---1:00P-2:30PSeigle / 104 PflegerMay 9 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM22200
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L77 WGSS 214CGender and Texts: Treating Disabilities: Writings on Women and Men with Different Impairments3.0 Units
Description:Images of disability abound in literature, yet they are most often employed as artistic embellishments, providing a setting for the actions of able main characters or an atmospheric backdrop. Recently, however, there has been a growing awareness that similar to the category of gender, the concept of disability is less a biological fact than a cultural construct and that its representation deserves exploration. Questions arise as to how these changes and shifts in the understanding of disability are represented in literature across cultures? How do texts talk about women with disabilities in comparison to men with disabilities? What are the intersections of disability and gender and how can they be usefully employed in critical thinking and analysis? This course will explore these questions by looking at both, women and men with bodily or mental impairments as they appear in various genres and across cultures from the nineteenth century to the present. After a brief introduction to the concepts of disability studies, we will read a wide range of texts going from the Grimm's fairy tales over 19th century fiction for girls to Virginia Woolfe's Mrs Dalloway and J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man. In our readings we will focus on depictions of disabilities as they are related to gender, identity, ethnicity, religion, class, and language. Accompanying materials will include the writings of Lennard J. Davis, Michel Foucault and Rosemary Garland-Thompson. Analyzing the literary texts in their socio-historical settings and against the background of disability and gender studies, we will seek insights into the way disability is constituted by and treated in specific cultures, historical periods, and societies.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Annually / History
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PSeigle / 210 NowickiMay 9 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM2090
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L77 WGSS 3133Service Learning: Feminist and Queer Youth Studies4.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30AMallinckrodt / 303 CisloMay 8 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM570
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L77 WGSS 3152Sex and Gender in Greco-Roman Antiquity3.0 Units
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01M-W----11:00A-12:00PSomers Family / 251 MannMay 9 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM80220
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A----F--11:00A-12:00PSeigle / 205 MannDefault - none12110
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B----F--11:00A-12:00PCupples II / L011 MannDefault - none12110
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L77 WGSS 3171Service Learning: Women and Prison4.0 Units
Description:Since President Reagan declared the war on drugs in the 1980s, the numbers of women in prison have increased dramatically. Due to mandatory minimum sentencing requirements and increasingly harsh sentences for non-violent offences, the U.S. prison population has swelled to unprecedented numbers over the last few decades. While women are the fastest growing population in prison, men still make up the vast majority of prisoners, and the system is largely geared toward men and their needs. In this course, we will explore the historical treatment of and contemporary issues for girls and women who get caught up in the criminal justice system. Through readings, films, reflective writings, and facility tours, we will explore the impact of incarceration on women and their families. While our scope will be national, we will focus on the corrections system in Missouri. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a service-learning class, which means it combines classroom learning with outside work at a community organization. In addition to regular class time, there is a service requirement, which will necessitate an additional 4-5 hours a week. There are several organizations with which we are partnering, and you will be assigned to one of these groups to work with for the entire semester. Moreover, there is a required all-day field trip on the last Friday in January when we will visit the women's prison in Vandalia, Missouri and the men's prison in Bowling Green, Missouri. If you cannot commit to these out-of-class obligations, which are required to pass the course, do not register for the class. Prereq: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies or Introduction to Sexuality Studies. JUNIORS AND SENIORS ONLY
Attributes:A&S IQSC, SD, SSCArchNSMArtSSCBUBAENS
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Every 2-3 Years / History

L77 WGSS 3561Law, Gender, & Justice3.0 Units
Description:This course (formerly called "Women and the Law") explores how social constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have shaped traditional legal reasoning and American legal concepts, including women's legal rights. We will begin by placing our current legal framework, and its gender, race, sexuality, and other societal assumptions, in an historical and Constitutional context. We will then examine many of the questions raised by feminist theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical perspectives. For example, is the legal subject gendered male, and, if so, how can advocates (or women and men) use the law to gain greater equality? What paradoxes have emerged in areas such as employment discrimination, family law, or reproductive rights, as women and others have sought liberal equality? What is the equality/difference debate about and why is it important for feminists? How do intersectionality and various schools of feminist thought affect our concepts of discrimination, equality, and justice? The course is thematic, but we will spend time on key cases that have influenced law and policy, examining how they affect the everyday lives of women. Over the years, this course has attracted WGSS students and pre-law students. This course is taught by law students under the supervision of a member of the School of Law faculty. In Spring 2017, Jesse Doggendorf, Sapna Khatri, Rebecca Swarm, and Sarah Watson will be teaching this course under the supervision of Professor Susan Appleton. STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 3561 WOMEN AND THE LAW CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.
Attributes:A&S IQSD, SSCArchSSCArtSSCBUBAENS
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L84 3561  L98 3561  U92 3561Frequency:None / History
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01--W----4:00P-7:00PAB Law Bldg / 404 AppletonNo Final2680
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L77 WGSS 393Gender Violence3.0 UnitsLab Required
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01-T-R---2:30P-4:00PSeigle / 109 AkeMay 10 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM45410
Desc:10+ seats reserved for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors
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A--W----3:00P-4:00PLouderman / 461 AkeNo Final12100
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B--W----4:00P-5:00PLouderman / 461 AkeNo Final12120
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C--W----4:00P-5:00PMallinckrodt / 303 AkeNo Final12130
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D--W----5:00P-6:00PLouderman / 461 AkeNo Final1260
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L77 WGSS 3942Service Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence4.0 Units

L77 WGSS 4013Queer of Color Critique: Sense and Sexuality3.0 Units

L77 WGSS 401ATransnational Queer Activism3.0 Units
Description:This course explores the recent emergence of visible movements for sexual and gender minorities across the globe. The course begins with an overview of theories of collective action, putting canonical texts in social movement studies in conversation with postcolonial, queer, and transnational feminist approaches to activism and resistance. The aim is to lay a theoretical foundation for transnational analysis that does not center Western experience. The second part of the course moves through some key issues in LGBTI organizing that are overlooked when focusing on Euro-America, including: the importance of democratic transition for social movements; the prevalence of human rights as frames for sexual rights in the global South; limitations of the term "homophobia" when conceiving of hostility toward sexual minorities cross-culturally; and the role of colonialism and neo-colonialism in the globalization of LGBTI identities. Students will read texts attentive to the specificities of activism and resistance in the global South such as Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa, Queer Activism in India, and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State. Course materials will also include primary source material from translated interviews with Argentine transgender activists the months before the passage of the "Gender Identity Law." Oral presentations will compare a case of LGBTI activism discussed in class to the work done by a St. Louis-based organization. By the end of the course, the students will be able to explain the important ways global Southern LGBTI movements differ from their Northern counterparts, contextualize news reports of events like the passage of the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, and craft research contributions based on global Southern case studies.Prerequisite: Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (L77 100B) or permission of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQLCD, SC, SD, SSCArchSSCArtSSCENS
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----11:30A-1:00PSeigle / L003 MoreauMay 9 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM20160
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L77 WGSS 418CSexuality and Gender in East Asia: The Body in Daoism3.0 Units
Description:The Body! There is probably no other phenomenon in the world that is as directly experienceable and tangible as our own physique, yet at the same time disconcerts and remains opaque to us due to its oftentimes unforeseeable and hardly controllable responses. In this course, we won't try to conclusively solve the question about what the corpus truly is. Instead, we will use the diversity of responses our body has triggered throughout human history and engage in conceptualizations of sex, body, and gender that are quite distinct to our modern-day perceptions. In particular, we will explore early and medieval Daoist visions of the corpus as a microreplica of the cosmos and its impact on various practices such as Inner Alchemy, Techniques of the Bed Chamber, Chinese medicine and mountain-and-water paintings. We will use these perspectives as an opportunity to question our own understandings that are mainly influenced by a dichotomy between the body and soul/psyche as developed in a Euro-Christian context and its materialization in the modern disciplines of medicine and psychology. In other words, we will delve into Daoist conceptualizations of sex, body, and gender in order to understand the emphases and some of the limitations of our own preconceived notions that are far from being universal or exhaustive, yet, heavily determine our actions.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCD, SCArchHUMArtHUMCFHMHENH
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L23 418  L03 4180  L04 418  L85 418  L97 4180Frequency:Unpredictable / History
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01M-W----4:00P-5:30PBusch / 202 ZuernMay 5 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM25190
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L77 WGSS 4231Topics in American Literature I: American Women Writers and Modernism3.0 Units

L77 WGSS 424Gender and Power in Religious Thought3.0 Units

L77 WGSS 5241Seminar: Feminist Modernist Studies3.0 Units
Description:Nearly a decade ago, Jane Garrity reflected that the "gynocritical" work of feminist recovery seemed "no longer hip" within modernist studies, especially in comparison to the recent temporal and geographical expansions of the field. And in her introduction to a recent special issue of MFS devoted to "Women's Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism," Anne E. Fernald describes the field as one in which "work on women writers abounds but definitions of modernist studies consistently neglect or underserve women." The concerns of this course are twofold: first, we will read an alternate canon of modernist women writers, thereby taking up Fernald's challenge to "read without first measuring every writer against the landmarks we already know." Second, we will investigate the place of feminist and queer recovery work within contemporary modernist studies. Can we move beyond the politics of recovery without denigrating its value? The seminar will coincide with the launch of Feminist Modernist Studies, an exciting new journal in the field, and seminar participants will produce work toward a future submission. Prior coursework in either modernist studies or feminist theory always encouraged but never required; MFA candidates, participants working primarily in literatures other than English, and those studying women writers in other periods are explicitly welcome to join us. Interested auditors should contact Prof. Micir.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L14 5241Frequency:None / History
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