| | Description: | This course will provide an introduction examination of major topics and concepts in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender and sexuality. We will examine the meanings attached to terms such as "man," "woman," "gay," and "sex." Topics discussed may include the history of feminist movements, masculinity, biological frameworks for understanding gender, intimate violence, sexual identities, and intersectionality. Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in each section. NOTE: Section 1 is reserved for freshmen and sophomore students only. ATTENDANCE MANDATORY FIRST DAY IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR CLASS ENROLLMENT. |
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| 02 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:30P | Seigle / L003 | Cislo | May 8 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 17 | 16 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 03 | -T-R--- | 8:30A-10:00A | Louderman / 461 | Brumbaugh Walter | May 3 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 22 | 20 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 04 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Louderman / 461 | Sangrey | May 6 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 16 | 22 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 05 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Louderman / 461 | Barounis | May 8 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 20 | 17 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 06 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:30P | Louderman / 461 | Barounis | May 8 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 20 | 18 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 08 | M-W---- | 11:30A-1:00P | Seigle / 111 | Bauder | May 7 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 20 | 20 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | Black women have been at the forefront of the Black radical tradition since its inception. Often marginalized in both the scholarship and popular memory, there exist a long unbroken chain of women who have organized around the principles of anti-sexism, anti-racism, and anti-capitalism. Frequently critical of heterosexist projects as well, these women have been the primary force driving the segment of the Black radical tradition that is commonly referred to as Black Feminism. Remaining cognizant of the fact that Black Feminist thought has also flourished as an academic enterprise-complete with its own theoretical interventions (ie. standpoint theory, intersectionality, dissemblance, etc.) and competing scholarly agendas-this course will think through the project of Black Feminism as a social movement driven by activism and vigorous political action for social change. Focusing on grassroots efforts at organizing, movement building, consciousness raising, policy reform, and political mobilization, Feminist Fire will center Black Feminists who explicitly embraced a critical posture towards capitalism as an untenable social order. We will prioritize the life and thought of 20th century women like Claudia Jones, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Frances Beal, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and organizations like the Combahee River Collective, Chicago's Black Women's Committee, and the Third World Women's Alliance. At its core, the course aims to bring the social movement history back into the discourse around Black Feminism. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Seigle / 305 | Brown | May 8 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 15 | 12 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | As a hip-hop artist Kanye West has had unprecedented impact on the sonic force of music, fashion, politics, and videography. Coupling his controversial moments, with his corpus of musical texts with special focus on sonic production, this course illuminates "Mr. West" as a case studey for interrogating the interplay between fame, gender, sexuality, and race. Mostly, we explore how racialized ways of doing iconography, complex ways of seeing, creates a distorted or reductive frame through which we see the black and famous. Nonetheless, the course oscillates with entertaining these nuances, while being entertained by the decade-long catalogue of music and visual imagery. Together, we extract the "Politics of Mr. West" in his music and life, while also illuminating the importance of a politics of genius-making in the larger arc of black pop culture tradition. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:30A | McMillan / G052 | McCune | May 6 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 85 | 52 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | This course provides students with an interdisciplinary examination of the history, politics and cultural expressions of gay and lesbian communities in American culture. It explores the ways lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgendered people construct, participate in and resist various constructions of gender and sexuality. We question desire and social/cultural power, the nature and power of social change, etc. Particular attention is paid to examining the roots and effects of heterosexism and homophobia, the call for hate crime legislation, the ethics of 'outing' and 'passing', the impact of AIDS, partnership recognition and domestic violence on GLBT communities. Throughout the course students are encouraged to examine the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity and social class with sexual orientation. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Seigle / 104 | Barounis | May 6 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 20 | 16 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | This course provides an overview of the history of the body from antiquity to modern times in Europe and North America using an interdisciplinary approach. By exploring selections from medical texts, literature, fashion, art, accounts of "new world" exploration, legal records, self-help books and contemporary media representations of human bodies, we will consider the changing historical perception of the body. The intersection of gender, race and sexuality will factor significantly in our discussions of how normative ideas about the body develop. This course will also provide an introduction to feminist/queer methodologies that apply to understanding history of the body. Prerequisite: Any -100 or -200 level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission of instructor. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:30A | Louderman / 461 | Cislo | No Final | 20 | 15 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:30P | Duncker / 101 | Stamatopoulou | May 8 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 45 | 32 | 0 | | |
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| | 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
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 2:30P-4:00P | Duncker / 1 | Baumgartner | No Final | 11 | 11 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | This course will analyze girls as cultural consumers, mediated representations, cultural producers, and subjects of social anxiety. Readings will cover a range of media that have historically been associated with girlhood, including not only film, television, and digital media, but also dolls, magazines, literature, and music. We will explore what role these media texts and technologies have had on the socialization of girls, the construction of their gendered identities, and the attempts at regulation of their behavior, sexuality, and appearance. Although the course will focus on girlhood media since the 1940s, we will consider how constructions of girlhood identity have changed over time as well as interrogate how girlhood identity intersects with race, sexuality, and class.
The course will examine important debates and tensions arising in relation to girls' media. We will evaluate concerns and moral panics about girls and their relationship to or perceived overinvestment in media and compare and contrast this with accounts of girls as active media consumers and producers. We will critically analyze how girls have been understood to negotiate agency in relation to commercialized culture - how they have been represented as wielders of "girl power," as passive or active consumers, as fans, and as media producers themselves. We will also analyze attempts to intervene in girls' media and popular culture and consider how these interventions have attempted to empower, inspire, or regulate girls or how they have worked to reinforce or challenge gendered understandings of childhood.
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| | Description: | Sex trafficking is a complex social problem with multiple contributing factors largely rooted in intersecting inequalities. Both in the United States and on a global level, interrelated inequities in gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, power, class, opportunity, education, culture, politics, and race are among the social phenomena that contribute to sex trafficking/CSE victimization. In this course, we will examine the dynamics of sex trafficking on a local and global level from various feminist and political perspectives, with particular attention given to the sexed and gendered social and structural conditions that impact sex trafficking. This course will cover the extent and nature of the problem, as well as current debates in the field, including demand, prevalence, experiences of survivors, types of sex trafficking, methods of traffickers, the role of weak social institutions, cultural dynamics, and global power dynamics. The course will also examine international, federal, and state legislation as well as organizational and grassroots efforts to prevent and respond to sex trafficking victimization. The aim of this course is to provide students with a holistic understanding of sex trafficking drawing from interdisciplinary sources and presenting a variety of perspectives. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:30P | Eads / 204 | Nichols | No Final | 20 | 20 | 0 | | |
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| | 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. STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 3561 WOMEN AND THE LAW CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. |
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| | 01 | --W---- | 4:00P-7:00P | AB Law Bldg / 404 | Appleton | May 3 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 24 | 18 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | This course examines the history of grassroots activism and political engagement of women in the US. Looking at social movements organized by women or around issues of gender and sexuality, class texts interrogate women's participation in, and exclusion from, political life. Key movements organizing the course units include, among others: the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movements, the Women's Suffrage Movements, Women's Labor Movements, Women's Global Peace Movements, and Recent Immigration Movements. Readings and discussion will pay particular attention to the movements of women of color, as well as the critiques of women of color of dominant women's movements. Course materials will analyze how methods of organizing reflect traditional forms of "doing politics," but also strategies and tactics for defining problems and posing solutions particular to women. Prerequisites: Any 100- or 200- level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission from the instructor. |
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| | Description: | This course will examine the forced transnational migration of war refugees and their resettlement in host societies. A central question that guides this course is: How does war impact and complicate belonging and influence the movement of people across borders and boundaries? With this question in mind, we will explore the dynamic relationships between specific groups of refugees and nation-states, while considering inseparable intersectional configurations of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class, age, and religion as lenses through which to consider ideas of personhood and notions of national belonging. In the first part of the semester we will focus on transnational displacement because of conflict and deterritorialization. We will utilize readings in feminist theory, post-colonial theory, and cultural studies to examine historical processes of dislocation and relocation. The second part of the semester will examine ethnographic case studies of resettled refugees in different sites and their day-to-day practices to understand how displaced people earn a place in host societies. We will also explore how identity categories influence the architecture of personhood in nation-states. Lastly, we will analyze the multi-layered ways in which diasporic subjects and nations rearticulate themselves virtually and digitally (via Internet and social media). We will combine diverse readings and theoretical engagements, lectures, documentary films, discussion, and class-based activities to interrogate notions of subjectivity, alterity, and belonging across time, place, and space.
Pre-Requisite: L77 100B or consent of instructor. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:30P | McMillan / 221 | Munem | May 7 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 15 | 8 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | Despite recent media attention to the gender gap in Hollywood, women still account for less than 10% of all directors, and only five women have ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar. But these abysmal statistics do not reflect the reality that female directors are producing some of the most innovative and exciting films of the 21st century. This course is intended to provide a general overview of the remarkable contributions of women directors to contemporary cinema (1990-present). First, we will turn our attention to women in the commercial industry, examining topics such as female authorship, popular genres, and the gender politics of production cultures in Hollywood. Then, we will survey women directors working outside of the system in documentary, independent, and experimental filmmaking modes. Finally, we will adopt a transnational perspective to investigate the contributions of women directors to world cinema, contextualizing the films of "women cinéastes" from countries such as Hong Kong, Argentina, and Iran in relation to their national cinemas and international film festival networks. In addition, we will discuss the films of women directors in terms of feminist and gender issues and as texts that clarify critical issues in film analysis, interpretation, and criticism. REQUIRED SCREENING: Tuesdays @4pm. 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Discourse about African American identity has been indelibly shaped by the nexus of language and visual representations that configure blackness as a deviant other to the West and U.S. citizenship. From racist caricature in travel narratives and pro-slavery tracts, to contemporary representations of "welfare queens" and "thugs," visual representations serve as allegedly transparent, and objective, examples of the perpetual and inevitable failure of people of African descent to be human. To combat these representations, many photographers, visual artists, and film and television producers have attempted to challenge and subvert this history of visual imperialism. Combatting this imperialism requires untangling the web of raced and gendered representations shaping what Patricia Hill Collins has called "controlling images" of African Americans-images such as Mammy, the pickaninny, Sapphire, Jezebel, the Welfare Queen, Coon, Sambo, Thug, and Man on the Down Low. At the same time, even discourses of respectability and "good" blackness can contribute to hegemony. In this course, we'll begin with representations of the slave in the 19th century and end with representations of (an always) gendered blackness in social media in order to explore the ways in which African American male and female identities have been shaped and resisted in visual culture. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:30A | Eads / 103 | Wanzo | May 6 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 20 | 19 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | This course will explore the issue of violence against women within families, by strangers in the workplace, and within the context on international and domestic political activity. In each area, issues of race, class, culture, and sexuality will be examined as well as legal, medical and sociological responses. Readings will cover current statistical data, research, and theory as well as information on the history of the battered women's movement, the rape crisis center movement, violent repression of women's political expressions internationally, and the effect of violence on immigrant and indigenous women in the U.S. and abroad.
STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN A DISCUSSION SECTION FOR THE COURSE.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 393 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: CURRENT ISSUES AND RESPONSES CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Seigle / 109 | Ake | May 8 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 30 | 35 | 0 | | Desc: | 10+ seats reserved for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors |
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| | Description: | In this course, we will explore the links between the theories and practices of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through a combination of research and direct community engagement. Course readings will focus on the ways that poverty and violence, along with race and gender expectations, shape the lives of women. A required community service project for this course asks students to examine the relationship between the course readings and the lives of actual women in St. Louis. Over the course of the semester, students will design and execute programming for women at a local community agency. This is a writing intensive course. IMPORTANT NOTE: this service-learning class means it combines classroom learning with outside work at a community organization. In addition to regular class time, there is a service requirement, wich will necessitate an additional 4-5 hours a week. Moreover, there is a required all-day service training on a Saturday for this course. If you cannot commit to these out-of-class obligations, which are required to pass the course, do not register for the class. Prereq: Intro to Women and Gender Studies or Intro to Sexuality Studies and Violence Against Women: Current Issues and Responses (L77 393) or by permission of instructor.
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| | Description: | Nuns -- women vowed to a shared life of poverty, chastity, and obedience in a cloistered community -- were central figures in medieval and early modern religion and society. This course explores life in the convent, with the distinctive culture that developed among communities of women, and the complex relations between the world of the cloister and the world outside the cloister. We look at how female celibacy served social and political, as well as religious, interests. We read works by nuns: both willing and unwilling; and works about nuns: nuns behaving well, and nuns behaving scandalously badly; nuns embracing their heavenly spouse, and nuns putting on plays; nuns possessed by the devil, and nuns managing their possessions; nuns as enraptured visionaries, and nuns grappling with the mundane realities of life in a cloistered community. NOTE: Section 2 is for graduate students only. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:30P | Seigle / 305 | Bornstein | Paper/Project/Take Home | 18 | 11 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | This course provides a historical overview of feminist literary and cultural theories since the 1960s and 70s, acquainting students with a diversity of voices within contemporary feminism and gender studies. Readings will include works of French feminism, Foucault's History of Sexuality, feminist responses to Foucault, queer (LGBTQ) theory, postcolonial and decolonial feminism, feminist disability theory, and writings by US feminists of color (African-American, Asian-American, Latina, Native-American). The reading list will be updated each year to reflect new developments in the discipline. We will approach these readings from an intersectional and interdisciplinary perspective, considering their dialogue with broader sociopolitical, cultural, and philosophical currents. By the end of the course, students are expected to have gained a basic knowledge of the major debates in feminist literary and cultural studies in the last 50 years, as well as the ability to draw on the repertoire of readings to identify and frame research questions in their areas of specialization. The class will be largely interactive, requiring active participation and collaborative effort on the part of the students. Students will be encouraged to make relevant connections between the class readings, everyday social and political issues, and their own research interests. NOTE: This course is in the core curriculum for the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate. Prereq: Advanced course work in WGSS or in literary theory (300-level and above) or permission of the instructor required. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 11:30A-1:00P | Cupples I / 216 | Tsuchiya | May 7 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 15 | 10 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | In this course, we will problematize the relationship between women writers and U. S. modernism in works by and about Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marianne Moore. We will consider especially the emergence of the biographical and literary "New Woman" as a character type and as a social reality. Beginning with Wharton's reimagining of national and gender identity in "The House of Mirth" (1905) and "The Age of Innocence" (1920), we will read Stein's "Three Lives (1909); Cather's "My Ántonia" (1913) and "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" (1940); Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937); and selected poems by Marianne Moore such as her satire "Marriage" (1923). Modernist literary women tried to imagine freer social roles for themselves, their characters or personae, and their readers. But to what extent was biographical and social experience aesthetic fate, and how does nostalgia function in this period? There will be a midterm paper, a final paper, and a formal oral report. Faithful attendance and class participation are required, naturally! Graduate students will have extra responsibilities, to be discussed at our first class meeting. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. |
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| | Description: | This course asks how feminist thinkers from various political and intellectual traditions critique,adopt and transform political theories of justice, citizenship, property and the state. To uncover how different feminist theories have been adopted in the struggle for political transformation and social justice, we will pursue two main lines of inquiry. The first asks how feminist thinkers from various traditions critique and engage the history of political thought within the social contract
tradition. We will ask, in particular, how gender, race, slavery, colonialism and empire shape conceptions of citizenship and property. We will also examine transnational feminist critiques of the public/private division in the Western political theory canon as it impacts the role of women and the social construction of women's bodies. During the second half of the semester, we will ask how various transnational social movements have engaged and adopted feminist theories in efforts to resist state violence, colonialism, labor exploitation and resource extraction. In following
these lines of inquiry we will draw from postcolonial, decolonial, liberal, Black, radical, Marxist and Chicana feminist perspectives. Part of our goal will be to uncover how various feminist theories treat the relationship between politics and embodied experience, how gendered conceptions of family life affect notions of political power and how ideas about sexuality and sexual conquest intersect with empire-building. Pre-Requisite: L77 100B or consent of instructor. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Seigle / L003 | Brown | May 6 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 20 | 9 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | This course examines how the performance of gender and sexuality has shaped the social, cultural, and political history of the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. While performance happens in everyday life, we will primarily focus on how the stage has been a potent space to debate issues about gender and sexuality. This course will put forth the argument that the stage has historically not only reflected broader social concerns, but also actively helped to shape those social dynamics. After an introduction to foundational ideas, we will start the semester with minstrelsy, signaling that the performance of gender and sexuality in America is deeply intertwined with race, class, and national belonging. Reading and viewing assignments bring together feminist theory, queer theory, American social history, and performance texts to build robust seminar discussions. |
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| | Description: | We focus on feminist thought in Western culture but also examine nonWestern ideas about feminisms. We trace the relationship among emergent feminist ideas and such developments as the rise of scientific methodology, Enlightenment thought, revolutionary movements and the gendering of the political subject, colonialism, romanticism, socialism, and global feminisms. Readings are drawn from both primary sources and recent feminist scholarship on the texts under consideration. NOTE: This course is in the core curriculum for the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisite: Completion of at least one Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission of the instructor. STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 475 INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF FEMINISM CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. |
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| | 01 | M------ | 2:00P-5:00P | Eads / 216 | Treitel | Paper/Project/Take Home | 15 | 12 | 0 | | Desc: | Students registering for this course must also register for L22 49IR/45 for 1 unit. |
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| | Description: | Sex and sexuality are recurring aspects of India's engagement with "the west". In this advanced seminar we trace the incredible history of India's global sexual engagements, chiefly in its relationship with the United States. Whether it be the Kamasutra, the Taj Mahal, Bhagwan Rajneesh (the "sex guru"), Surrogacy, Transnational Adoption, or Tantra, Indians have frequently traded sex to build cultural power and exceptionalism. And the United States has provided an especially fertile terrain for the expansion of Indian sexual capital. How did this process produce mobility, exclusion and violence? Why did India deploy sex to communicate with, translate, and even control empire? How have seemingly traditional social categories of caste, gender, religion and even language been reshaped by India's global sexual history? Is it possible to interrupt the rise of the globally mobile, normative sexual subject and h/er entanglement with US empire? Ten weeks of reading and research will be followed by five weeks of collaborative writing. At the end of the semester, students will submit a 15-20 page research paper on any aspect of the incredible history of India's sexual exceptionalism. Students registering for this course must also register for L22 49IR/26 for 1 unit. PREREQUISITE: Prior coursework in history or South Asia, or by permission of the instructor. Modern, South Asia. |
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| | Description: | This seminar introduces graduate students with diverse interests to some key and core works in the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents, theoretical frameworks, and contemporary currents necessary to understand the role of sexuality in organizing personal, social, economic, and political life. To this end, the course will give special attention to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability/disability. |
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| | Description: | In our current political and social climate in which battles for representation, autonomy, and recognition for humanity are heightened, it is critical that scholars remain vigilant of the politics undergirding how we gain access to knowledge and the conclusions we impart. In this course, we will study the works of feminist-identified scholars and performers to examine how they use different mediums to excavate, stage, and theorize lives that place, front and center, the relationship between (P)olitics, embodied knowledge, and the methods used to gain access. The course will be divided into three units-oral history, theater, and ethnography-in which we will explore scholarship from various disciplines and fields (English, anthropology, theater, dance, queer studies, and history). Doing so familiarizes students with different research methods, as well as illustrating feminism and performance as contested styles and approaches. Consequently, a major aim of this course is to expose students to an arsenal of research techniques and explore how such techniques impact the creation and trajectory of research questions, our engagement with subjects (both living and not) and objects, and the final product of our research. Students will also engage in practice-based workshops during class to gain practical tips and experiences that will enhance their research capabilities. |
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