Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses
2010-2011
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
GNSS0090: First Year Seminar
These seminars for first year students provide an introduction to the study of gender and sexuality in social, cultural, political, economic or scientific contexts. Enrollment limited to 20 first year students.
GNSS0090B: Bodies Out of Bounds, Gail Cohee
Examines what happens to bodies - and the world around them - when they refuse to stay within “normal” boundaries. Readings focused on literature from the early modern period to the present. Uses film and contemporary cultural theory for comparison and context. Readings range from Dekker and Middleton’s play The Roaring Girl to Octavia Butler’s Dawn Triology; films include Ma Vie en Rose. FYS, Sem. I, T/Th. 9:00-10:20
GNSS0090C: Reproductive Health: Science and Politics, Sarah Fox
Reproductive health issues such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and gay and lesbian health are some of the most controversial and politically charged issues in the US today. After an introduction to the interpretation of medical literature we will explore scientific, political, religious and cultural aspects of these important public policy issues. Successful national and international programs will be discussed. Although all views are welcome, it is expected that students will be respectful of other’s opinions and will incorporate the best available scientific data into their conclusions. FYS, DVPS, Sem. II, M 3:00-5:20
GNSS0120: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Explores the interdisciplinary fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, considering the relation between formations of gender and those of sexuality across a range of historical and disciplinary contexts. Considers how both sexuality and gender are shaped in relation to race and ethnicity, economic inequality. Sem. II, M/W/F 10:00-10:50
GNSS1960: Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNSS1960B: Health and Healing in American History, Deborah Weinstein
Surveys the history of American medicine in its social and political contexts, including changing understandings of disease, treatment practices, and medical institutions. Focuses on how gender and race have informed how patients and healers have made sense out of pain and disease.
Sem. I, T/Th 10:30-11:50
GNSS1960C: Gender, Sexuality, and Science, Deborah Weinstein
Examines how American and European science has naturalized differences in the human body and gendered the natural world from the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries. Will consider historical changes in the scientific study of sex, gender, race, and sexuality, as well as the participation of men and women in scientific work. Sem. II, T/Th 10:30-11:50
GNSS1960K: TBD, Sem. I, T/Th 1:00-2:20
GNSS1960L: TBD, Sem. II, T/Th 1:00-2:20
GNSS1960M: TBD, Sem. II, T/Th 2:30-3:50
GSS1970/1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1810/1820: Independent Study/Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member. Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1990: Senior Seminar
A research seminar focusing on the research and writing of the participants. Required of concentrators; open to other advanced students by permission. Sem. I
GNSS2010/2020: The Pembroke Research Seminar in Feminist Theory
An advanced research seminar in feminist theory and gender studies. Presentations made by Brown faculty, Pembroke Center fellows, visiting scholars, and students.
GNSS2010D/2020D: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory, David Kennedy
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2010-11 is “The Power and Mystery of Expertise.” Written permission required. Offered in conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W 10:00-12:30
GNSS X-LIST COURSES 2010-2011
FALL 2010
Courses appropriate for concentration credit
These courses have a primary focus on women or gender or make significant use of modes of feminist or queeranalysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI0600: Race, Gender, and Urban Politics
AFRI1050G: Narrating the Radical Self
AFRI1110: Voices Beneath the Veil
AFRI1580: Contemporary African Women’s Literature – The Novel
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV0190A: Selling Love, Selling Sex: Romance in Popular Culture
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH2240: Anthropological Approaches to the Body
ANTH2303: Anthropology, Fertility and Reproduction
CLASSICS
CLAS1750L: Sexual Desire in the Premodern Mediterranean
LATN1110G: Latin Love Elegy
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT1810N: Freud: Writer and Reader
ENGLISH
ENGL1310A: “Firing the Canon”: Early Modern Women Writers
HISTORY
HIST1975U: Gender, Empire and the Nation in the Middle East
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1501K: Seeing Queerly: Queer Theory, Film Video
SOCIOLOGY
SOC1870V: Households, Work and Gender
SOC (course # tbd): Sex, Gender and Society
FALL 2010
Related Courses
These courses address the issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor. Check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
ENGLISH
ENGL0400A: Introduction to Shakespeare
SPRING 2011
Courses appropriate for concentration credit
These courses have a primary focus on women or gender or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI0710A: Racial and Gender Politics in Contemporary Brazil
AFRI0990: Black Lavender: Black Gay/Lesbian Plays/Dramatic Constructions in American Theatre
AFRI (course # tbd): Race, Rights and Rebellion
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV1611M: Trauma and the Shame of the Unspeakable
AMCV0190X: Global Women: Nurses, Maids and the Sex Industry
AMCV1901D: Motherhood in Black and White
AMCV0150J: The Boy Problem
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT 0810T: Oedipus in Theory and Literature
COLT1812H: “Making Up is Hard to Do”: Beauty, Artifice & Inspiration in Women’s Literary Representation
ENGLISH
ENGL1560A: Jane Austen and George Eliot
ENGL1900R: Queer Relations: Aesthetics and Sexuality
FRENCH
FREN1310: French Women Writers
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM0901A: Unruly Crossings: Queerness, Race and Globalization
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLS2200: Politics, Gender and the Welfare State
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES
POBS2600M: The Word in the Dark: Passion, Quest and Identity in the Universe of Clarice Lispector
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELS0080: Gender, Power, God(s)
RELS0290D: Women, Sex and Gender in Islam
SPRING 2011
Related Courses
These courses address the issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH0800: Sound and Symbols
ANTH2800: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCH2010C: Architecture Body and Performance
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
FALL 2009
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member. Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1960: Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNSS1960B: Health and Healing in American History
Surveys the history of American medicine in its social and political contexts, including changing understandings of disease, treatment practices, and medical institutions. Focuses on how gender and race have informed how patients and healers have made sense out of pain and disease.
Sem. I, T,Th 10:30-11:50, Deborah Weinstein
GNSS1960F: Gender, Literature and Nation: Writing Nations, Writing Subject
Explores the intersection of gender, literature and nation as a productive ideological knot that helps decipher the trajectory of countries as linguistic, literary and national realities. Why are countries often represented as women? How can we understand gender as a founding category of our linguistic, cultural and political competence? Why are notions of femininity and masculinity so fluid and open to negotiation, and at the same time so rigidly codified in art, culture and politics?
Sem. I, Th 4:00-6:20, Silvia Valisa
GNSS1970, GNSS1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1990: Senior Seminar, Denise Davis
A research seminar focusing on the research and writing of the participants. Required of concentrators; open to other advanced students by permission.
Sem. I, Tu 4:00-6:20
GNSS2010: The Pembroke Research Seminar in Feminist Theory
An advanced research seminar in feminist theory and gender studies. Presentations made by Brown faculty, Pembroke Center fellows, visiting scholars, and students.
GNSS2010C, GNSS2020C: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory, Kay Warren
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2009-10 is “Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspectives.” Written permission required. Offered in conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W 10:00-12:30
FALL 2009
Courses appropriate for concentration credit
The following courses have a primary focus on women or gender or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV1612I: Women on the Move: Gender, Sexuality, and Migration
AMCV0190: “What Does a Woman Want?”: Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Desire
ENGLISH
ENGL1510A: Jane Austen and Her Predecessors
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1501O: Television, Gender and Sexuality
MCM2100H: History of Theory: Historicism vs. Psychoanalysis
Related Courses
The following courses address the issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI1170: African American Women’s History
COMMUNITY HEALTH
PHP1070: The Burden of Disease in Developing Nations
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT2820D: The “Tenth Muse” Phenomenon
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
SPRING 2010
GNSS0090: First Year Seminar
These seminars for first year students provide an introduction to the study of gender and sexuality in social, cultural, political, economic or scientific contexts. Enrollment limited to 20 first year students.
GNSS0090C: Reproductive Health: Science and Politics, Sarah Fox
Pending approval. Reproductive health issues such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and gay and lesbian health are some of the most controversial and politically charged issues in the US today. After an introduction to the interpretation of medical literature we will explore scientific, political, religious and cultural aspects of these important public policy issues. Successful national and international programs will be discussed. Although all views are welcome, it is expected that students will be respectful of other’s opinions and will incorporate the best available scientific data into their conclusions. FYS, Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
Sem. II, M 3:00-5:20
GNSS0120: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, Denise Davis
Explores the interdisciplinary fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, considering the relation between formations of gender and those of sexuality across a range of historical and disciplinary contexts. Considers how both sexuality and gender are shaped in relation to race and ethnicity, economic inequality, and the postcolonial legacy.
Sem. II, Arr.
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member. Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1960: Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNSS1960C: Gender, Sexuality, and Science, Debbie Weinstein
Examines how American and European science has naturalized differences in the human body and gendered the natural world from the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries. Will consider historical changes in the scientific study of sex, gender, race, and sexuality, as well as the participation of men and women in scientific work.
Sem. II, T,Th 10:30-11:50
GNSS1960D: Feminist Theory/Feminist Activism, Gail Cohee
Some complain that feminist theory is “too academic”, that it has no ties to social justice or activism. On the other hand, there are those in the academy who accuse gender/women’s studies of not being sufficiently academic, of not being intellectually rigorous. With those two stereotypes in mind, we will read a variety of feminist theorists, some generally thought of as “academic”, and some generally seen as “activist”. Can academic theory be useful to political and social activists? Can activism inform academic theorizing?
Sem. II, T,Th 1:00-2:20
GNSS1960G: The Globalization of Family-Making, Sonja van Wichelen
Explores the topic of transnational adoption within the field of culture and politics. How is adoption changing our ideas of kinship? How do new reproductive technologies relate to adoption? How are adoptee-identities constituted within cultural frameworks of race, class, and gender? And how do local, national, and global processes intervene in the political economy of adoption? The main aim of the course is to provide students the tools to critically assess the complexities of transnational adoption in a globalizing world. Sem. II, T,Th 9:00-10:20 am
GNSS1960H: Theorizing the Global Sex Trade, Anita Starosta
Considers the sex trade–dubbed as “modern day slavery” –from cross-cultural, comparative, and theoretical perspectives. Is the global sex trade an exception to norms (ethical, international, legal) or is it a symptom and an outcome of globalization? What notions of humanity, dignity, or freedom might be said to apply to commodified bodies? We will consider connections between property relations, race, value, and personhood; critical assessments of contemporary abolitionist discourses; links between sex work and other forms of “affective labor”; and theories of globalization and sovereignty. Readings include activist, social-scientific, and theoretical texts (Arendt, Foucault, Marx, Agamben). Sem. II, T,Th 9:00-10:20 am
GNSS1960I: Migration, Risk and the Globalization of Disease, David Machledt
Will examine the links between health, migration and globalization. Drawing primarily on the methodologies of medical anthropology and science and technology studies, we will look at the ways illness shapes and is shaped by migration processes. How are ideologies of race, class, gender and the family inflected through health policy and conceptualizations of health risk? How do discourses on the globalization of disease and global health reflect or challenge political, economic and social inequalities within and between nations? How has the global distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical research created new markets and new claims to citizenship? Sem. II, T,Th 9:00-10:20 am
GNSS1960J: Feminist Debates in International Law, Vasuki Nesiah
Aimed at introducing students to contemporary feminist debates in the world of international law regarding [i] rape and war, [ii] poverty and development, [iii] religion and human rights and [iv] peace building. In particular, it wants students to gain the critical tools to interrogate the work of international legal argument by analyzing the issues at stake in alternative approaches to the gender justice issues highlighted in the course. While anchored in issues that are central to current feminist scholarship in international law and policy, the course materials will be interdisciplinary –drawing on political philosophy, film and literature. Sem. II, Q hour
GNSS2010C, GNSS2020C: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory, Kay Warren
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2009-10 is “Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspectives.” Written permission required. Offered in conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W 10:00-12:30
SPRING 2010
Courses appropriate for concentration credit
The following courses have a primary focus on women or gender or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV0190: Motherhood in Black and White
AMCV1612J: She Works Hard for the Money: Women and Work in American Society
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAST1950X: Queer Japan: Culture, History & Sexuality
ENGLISH
ENGL1900R: Queer Relations: Theories of Subjectivity and Community
ENGL1760R: The Roaring Twenties
ENGL0800A: City Novels
HISTORY
HIST1974L: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1201H: Feminist Debates on Cultural Difference
MCM1502O: Feminism Meets Queer Theory
MCM1502V: Theories of the Body and the Limits of Constructionism
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELS0290C: Women, Sex and Gender in Islam
Related Courses
The following courses address the issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor. Please check with the sponsoring department for times and locations.
COMMUNITY HEALTH
PHP2330: Behavioral and Social Approaches to HIV Prevention
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT1812G: Thematizing Sex and Gender in Writings from the Middle East
HISTORY
HIST1973S: Punks, Queers & Pakistanis: Subcultures and the Nation in 20th Century Britain
ITALIAN STUDIES
ITAL1400J: The Many Faces of Casanova
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
FALL 2008
GNSS0090B: Bodies Out of Bounds, Gail E. Cohee
In this seminar we will examine what happens to bodies - and the world around them - when they refuse to stay within "normal" boundaries. We will focus our readings on literature from the early modern period to the present, and use film and contemporary cultural theory for comparison and context. Readings range from Dekker and Middleton's play The Roaring Girl to Octavia Butler's Dawn Triology; films include Ma Vie en Rose. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 9:00-10:20
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member. Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1970, GNSS1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1990: Senior Seminar, C. Kahn
A research seminar focusing on the research and writing of the participants. Required of concentrators; open to other advanced students by permission. Sem. I, T/Th 10:30-11:50
GNSS2010B, GNSS2020B: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory,
Leslie Bostrom
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2008-9 is “Visions of Nature: Constructing the Cultural Other.” Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Offered in, conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W. 10:00-12:30
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
FALL 2008
The courses below have a primary focus on women, gender or sexuality, or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI0600: Race, Gender, and Urban Politics
AFRI1050G: Black Women’s Political Autobiography
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV1612I: Women on the Move: Gender, Sexuality and Migration
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH1221: Anthropology of Masculinity
ANTH2250: Psychology of Gender
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT181: Freud: Writer and Reader
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAST1950B: Chinese Women, Gender and Feminism from Historical and Transnational Perspectives
FRENCH
FREN2170: Decadence
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1201E: Feminist Theories of Sexual Subjectivity
MCM1501K: Seeking Queerly: Queer Theory, Film Video
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELS0080: Women & Religion
RELATED COURSES
FALL 2008
The following courses address issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV1611I: Self/Identity in American Culture
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH0100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
CLASSICS
CLAS0210: Sappho: Poet and Legend
ENGLISH
ENGL1650: Modernist Fiction
HUMANITIES
HMAN 1970G: A History of Humanness: Scientific & Popular Cultures in the 20th
Century United States
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1502S: Film Theory and Cultural Analysis: The Case of Classical Hollywood Cinema
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
SPRING 2009
GNSS0090C: Reproductive Health: Science and Politics, Sarah Fox
Pending approval. Reproductive health issues such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and gay and lesbian health are some of the most controversial and politically charged issues in the US today. After an introduction to the interpretation of medical literature we will explore scientific, political, religious and cultural aspects of these important public policy issues. Successful national and international programs will be discussed. Although all views are welcome, it is expected that students will be respectful of other’s opinions and will incorporate the best available scientific data into their conclusions. FYS, Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
Sem. II, M 3:00-5:20
GNSS0120: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, Denise Davis
Explores the interdisciplinary fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, considering the relation between formations of gender and those of sexuality across a range of historical and disciplinary contexts. Considers how both sexuality and gender are shaped in relation to race and ethnicity, economic inequality, and the postcolonial legacy.
Sem. II, F MWF, 1:00-1:50
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member. Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1960A: Feminist Ethnographies, R. Abusharaf, CANCELED
Pending approval. Feminist ethnography is an exploration into gender and sexuality as primary domains of social and cultural analysis. It offers various theoretical and methodological perspectives and employs interdisciplinary approaches and conceptual frameworks for understanding the complex patterns and processes of cross-cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. Key questions relating to identity, difference, feminist politics and ethnographic representations pertaining to gender in diverse world societies will be examined. We will review major transformations and critiques that feminist anthropology has brought to bear to challenge dominant discourses on culture, politics, and society. Sem. II, T/Th 10:30-11:50
GNSS1970, GNSS1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS2010B, GNSS2020B: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory,
Leslie Bostrom
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2008-9 is “Visions of Nature: Constructing the Cultural Other.” Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Offered in, conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W. 10:00-12:30
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
SPRING 2009
The courses below have a primary focus on women, gender or sexuality, or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI0570: Black Feminist Thought & Practice
AFRI0710A: Racial and Gender Politics in Contemporary Brazil
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV15: Women: /Writing/Power: Morrison, Condé, Kincaid
AMCV1612F: Female Maladies: Women & Mental Illness in the United States since 1860
AMCV1903U : Sex Acts: The Cultural Logics of Intimacy in America
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH2250: Psychology of Gender
ENGLISH
ENGL1900R: Queer Relations
FRENCH
FREN1900: French Feminisms
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM15020: Feminism Meets Queery Theory
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLS2131: Politics of Gender
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELS1210: Religion & Gender in the Greco Roman Mediterranean
RELATED COURSES
SPRING 2009
The following courses address issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI1440: Theorizing the Black Diaspora
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH1251: Violence & the Media
ANTH2303: Anthropology of Fertility and Reproduction
CENTER FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES
SIGN0900: Introduction to Deaf Studies
GERMAN STUDIES
GRMN0166R: Freud
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
FALL 2007
GNSS0090B: Bodies Out of Bounds
Gail E. Cohee
In this seminar we will examine what happens to bodies - and the world around them - when they refuse to stay within "normal" boundaries. We will focus our readings on literature from the early modern period to the present, and use film and contemporary cultural theory for comparasion and context. Readings range from Dekker and Middleton's play The Roaring Girl to Octavia Butler's Dawn Triology; films include Ma Vie en Rose. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 9:00-10:20
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1970, GNSS1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS2010A, GNSS2020A: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory
Bernard M. Reginster
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2007-8 is The Question of Identity in Psychoanalysis. Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Offered in , conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W. 9:30-11:50 AM
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
FALL 2007
The courses below have a primary focus on women, gender or sexuality, or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI 0850 - S01: The Politics of Gender in the Caribbean Novel
This course will examine 20th Century Caribbean Literature as a genre, which poses challenges to colonialism and raises profound questions of sovereignty. It will examine how Contemporary Caribbean Literature contributes to the world of literature in general.
Sem. I, W 3:00 - 5:20
AFRI 1580 – S01: Contemporary African Women’s Literature
The aim of the course is to introduce students to some of the major prose female writers in contemporary African Literature. Sem. I, M 3:00 - 5:20
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH0300: Culture and Health
Daniel J. Smith
An introduction to Medical Anthropology, the course explores the complex interaction of culture and biology as it affects human health. Examines the social construction of health and illness across cultures using ethnographic case studies representing a wide range human experience in domestic and international contexts. Emphasizes the social, political, and economic context in which health and behavior and health systems must be understood.
Sem. I, M.,W.,F. 11:00-11:50
ANTH1321: Impact on Colonialism: Gender and Nationalism in India
Lina M. Fruzzetti
This course is designed to look into colonial and post-colonial identities within the disciplines of history of literary studies. We will adopt an anthropological approach to those subjects, taking the cultural anthropology and construction of gender as the guideline for the analysis. Topics will include: orientalism, and gender; nationalism and religion.
Sem. I, W. 3:00-5:20
CLASSICS
CLAS0210K: Sappho: Poet and Legend
Deborah Boedeker
We will explore in depth all the remaining poetry of the mysterious Sappho of Lesbos, the most famous female author of western antiquity, including how some of her songs have recently been rediscovered. Comparing Sappho with her great male peers, we will consider how this legendary figure has been used as a symbol for modern female creativity and sexuality.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 1:00-2:20
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAST1950B – Chinese Women, Gender, and Feminism from Historical and Transnational Perspectives
Lingzhen Wang
This seminar course is designed to critically re-evaluate (re)presentations of Chinese women, gender, and feminism in historical, literary, and academic discourses. It examines a diverse body of texts produced through different historical periods and in different geopolitical locations. It emphasizes gender as both a historical construct(s) among competing discourses and as a material process of individual embodiment and disembodiment. The goal of the course is to help advanced students understand Chinese history from a distinctly gendered perspective, to recognize women's roles in history and writing, and to develop a reflective, cross-cultural approach to gender, politics, and the self.
Sem. I, M. 3:00 pm - 5:20 pm
ENGLISH
ENGL 1510A – Jane Austen and Her Predecessors
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Before turning to an in-depth consideration of Austen's major work, this course takes a revisionary view of the rise of the novel by studying fiction by women writers from Aphra Behn to Mary Wollstonecraft. Readings include Haywood's Love in Excess, Inchbald's A Simple Story, Burney's Evelina, and, of course, Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 1:00-2:20
ENGL 1511B – The Victorian Novel
Nancy Armstrong
Challenges the notion of a Great Tradition or mainstream Victorian novel by looking at the proliferation of subgenres-e.g., sensation fiction, crime fiction, thug fiction, colonial adventures stories-for which the period is known. Includes novels by Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Dickens, Mrs. Henry Wood, Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson, Haggard, Stoker, and Wilde.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
FRENCH
FREN1060A: Décadence
Gretchen Schultz
Study of the notion of decadence in fin-de-siècle French culture. From scientific theories of degeneration to literary representations of sexual perversion, writers of the period were consumed by the specter of moral decay and social disease. This course will analyze fictional and non-fictional texts of the period by authors such as Péladan, Lorrain, Rachilde, Mendès, and Nordau.
Sem. I, M.,W. 3:00-4:20
ITALIAN
ITAL1420: Sex and the Cities: Venice, Florence, and Rome, 1450-1800
Caroline Castiglione
This course examines the politics of sexuality and the sexuality of politics in Italy between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Italy's urban settings saw the development of some of the most sophisticated political systems in Europe, and issues of gender identity and sexual practices figured prominently in the political symbolism, political criticism, legal and social orders of these regimes. Lectures and course discussions also explore everyday practices and their implications for defining and defying the social and political norms of gender and sexuality in early modern Italy.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLS1820I: Feminism and Political Theory
Sharon R. Krause
Examines recent developments in feminist scholarship and their implications for political theory and politics. We explore the impact of gender-differentiated identities on moral reasoning and political agency; the relationships between feminism and classical liberalism, feminism and radical democracy, and feminism and the law; feminist theories of citizenship; and the implications of multiculturalism for feminist politics. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors.
Sem. I, N Hour W. 3:00-5:20
POLS1821S: Women and Politics
Jennifer Lawless
Why women run for office from the perspectives of candidates and elected officials. Will address women's campaign success and experiences in fundraising, vote totals, media coverage, and discrimination. Will address the implications of women's presence in political institutions, issues of substantive and symbolic representation, public policy agendas and outcomes, and constituent level benefits of representation by women. Enrollment limited to junior and senior Political Science concentrators. Sem. I, M. 3:00-5:20
RELATED COURSES
FALL 2007
The following courses address issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI1110: Voices Beneath the Veil
Elmo Terry-Morgan
Thirty plays, written by Afro-American playwrights and presented on the American stage between 1858 and the 1990s, are examined as cultural and historical documents of Afro-American realities. Supplementary readings from the humanities and social sciences provide critical framework for in-class discussions and student papers.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV 0190A – S01: Selling Love, Selling Sex: Romance in Popular Culture
Elizabeth Burbank-Gilb
Where do our beliefs about love and romance come from? Is it true that "sex sells"? This course compares representations of love in advertising and popular culture from three decades- the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s - to present-day examples. We'll compare texts such as Ladies’ Home Journal, I Love Lucy, and Pee-wee's Playhouse to Maxim, Friends, and The Bachelor.
Sem. I, MW 8:30 - 9:50
AMCV1900I: Latina/o Cultural Theory
Ralph E. Rodriguez
Advanced seminar designed to familiarize students with past and present debates in Latina/o Studies. Knowledge of these critical conversations will aid students in making their own contributions to the field as they write their theses and dissertations. We will read such folks as Jose Limon, Mary Pat Brady, Frances Aparicio, and Gustavo Perez Firmat, to name but a few.
Sem I, Th. 4:00-6:20
BIOLOGY
BIOL0310: Introduction to Developmental Biology
Anne Fausto-Sterling
An introductory level course focusing on the scientific principles and concepts governing development of animals and plants, evolutionary comparisons of these processes, and the ethical and social implications of these events. It is expected that students have taken BI 20 (BIOL 0200) (or equivalent). Students may not take both 31 and 32 (BIOL 0310 and 0320). [Interested Gender and Sexuality Studies students should contact the professor in advance.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 9:00-10:20
BIOL0470: Genetics
Michael McKeown
Genetic phenomena at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and population levels. Topics include transmission of genes and chromosomes, mutation, structure and regulation of the expression of the genetic material, elements of genetic engineering, and evolutionary genetics. One laboratory session and one discussion session per week. Students should not plan to take 47 after 154. Expected: BI 20 or equivalent.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT0510F: Che Guevara, the Man and the Myths
Esther K. Whitfield
Reads Guevara's political and philosophical writings alongside the literary, visual and filmic representations that have made him one of the twentieth century's most iconic figures and a symbol for vastly diverging interests. From a cultural studies perspective, compares the development of Guevara's theories to posthumous uses of his work and image, particularly in and in relation to present-day Cuba.
Sem. I, M. 3:00-5:20
COLT1811E: Sentimentalism-Fiction/Film/Theory
Nancy Armstrong
How does the novel's sentimental investment change with the growth of modern imperial nations? Why does the Hollywood tearjerker make us spill so much affect? Why does critical theory draw on sentimental tropes to extend liberal individualism to women and other excluded groups? We explore these conundrums through selected works of fiction, film, and theory from several different nations.
Sem. I, M. 3:00-5:20
COLT 2820D: The "Tenth Muse" Phenomenon
Stephanie Merrim
The texts and contexts of women writing in English, Spanish and French, during the sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries. Often dubbed "Tenth Muses", these first early modern women writers to gain public prominence played "extreme games" and/or epitomized socially sanctioned scripts for women. Authors include, among others: Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Sor Juana, Mme de Lafayette, Maria de Zayas.
Fridays, 3-5:30, Marson #103
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAST1070: China Modern: An Introduction to the Literature of Twentieth-Century China
Lingzhen Wang
A general introduction to modern and contemporary Chinese literature from the May Fourth Movement to contemporary Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Emphasizes reading of literary works in relation to topics such as cultural tradition, modernity, nationalism, revolution, class, gender, region, cultural commodification, and literary innovations. Readings in English. No previous knowledge of Chinese required.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
ENGLISH
ENGL0210A: Roots of English Literature to 1600
Geoffrey R. Russom
A survey of ancient Northwest European poems, sagas, and mythologies that provided the context for the earliest writing in English and remain influential today. Readings include Celtic and Scandinavian as well as English narratives.
Sem. I, M.,W.,F. 2:00-2:50
ENGL0800A: City Novels
Tamar Katz
We will discuss 20th-century novels and films about the city from the U.S. and England to ask a range of questions: How do these works suggest the city shapes the way we grow up, think, move, and see? How is the city divided by class, by race, by gender? Do these novels imagine potential solutions to these problems? Authors may include Crane, Dos Passos, Woolf, Wright, Cisneros, Calvino. Students will be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
Sem. I, M.,W. F10:00-10:50
ENGL1310D: Between Gods and Beasts: The Renaissance Ovid
Coppelia Kahn
Ovid's Metamorphoses, an epic compendium of classical myths, narrates with wit and pathos the transformations of body and mind wrought by sexual passion. Central to Renaissance conceptions of the human, it inspired drama, poetry, and narrative. Readings: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Spenser, Milton.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 1:00-2:20
ETHNIC STUDIES
ETHN0500: Introduction to American/Ethnic Studies
Ralph E. Rodriguez
Considers the U.S. as a society whose unifying identity is rooted in ethnic and racial diversity. Explores the historical and contemporary experiences of racial and ethnic groups in this country and analyzes different forms of representation of those experiences, as well as representations of the racial and ethnic stratification in the U.S. imagination.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 1:00-2:20
HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
HIAA0650: Eighteenth-Century Art-Imagining the Global Eighteenth-Century
K. Dian Kriz
Forging a modern state and a modern empire involved new and reworked forms of visual representation. This course looks at how artists in the two leading imperial Western powers, England and France, produced art that addressed the concerns of diverse and newly expanded audiences.
Sem. I, T.,Th. 2:30-3:50
SCIENCE STUDIES
SCSO0490: Introduction to Science Studies
Sherine F. Hamdy
What exactly is "science"? How do scientific ideas become knowledge? How does our society, government, and culture understand and respond to science and medicine? The interdisciplinary field of science studies is introduced through exploration of topics that include gender and science, race and science, cultural studies of medicine, and the "science wars."
Sem. I, M.,W.,F. 11:00-11:50
GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES COURSES
SPRING 2008
GNSS0120: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Tamar Katz
Explores the interdisciplinary fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, considering the relation between formations of gender and those of sexuality across a range of historical and disciplinary contexts. Considers how both sexuality and gender are shaped in relation to race and ethnicity, economic inequality, and the postcolonial legacy.
Sem. II, Time TBA
GNSS1810, GNSS1820: Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS1970, GNSS1980: Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sem. I, II, Arr.
GNSS2010A, GNSS2020A: Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory
Bernard M. Reginster
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2007-8 is The Question of Identity in Psychoanalysis. Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Offered in , conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sem. I, II, W. 9:30-11:50 AM
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
SPRING 2008
The courses below have a primary focus on women, gender or sexuality, or make significant use of modes of feminist or queer analysis. They count toward the concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
AFRICANA STUDIES
AFRI0570: 20th Century Black Feminist Thought and Practice in the U.S
Patricia L. Rose
This course will explore the ways that black women in the U.S. have experienced racial and gendered discrimination as well as what sorts of strategies (e.g., political, intellectual, narrative, and creative) black women have devised in response. We will be especially concerned with elements of African-American feminist thought and its articulation in writings, music, literature and practice/activism in the 20th century U.S.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
AFRI0990: Black Lavender: Black Gay/Lesbian Plays/Dramatic Constructions in the American Theatre
Elmo Terry-Morgan
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of plays that address the identities and issues of black gay men and lesbians and offers various perspectives from within and without the black gay and lesbian artistic communities. Focuses on analysis of unpublished titles. Also includes published works by Baraka, Bullins, Corbitt, Gibson, Holmes, West, and Pomo Afro Homos. Some evening screenings of videotapes.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AMCV0150F: What Does A Woman Want?
Beverly Haviland
This course is an introduction to psychoanalysis and its vexed and productive relationships to women and feminism. Freud asked his famous question: "What does a woman want?" after years of clinical practice and theoretical speculation. Woman's desire remained a mystery to him, but the attempt to solve it has given rise to a rethinking of human sexuality, of gender, of social structures, and of creativity. We will read foundational texts by Freud and by feminist disciples and critics of psychoanalysis theories. The literary texts will be read as critiques of theoretical positions, as well as examples of particular historical constructions of gender. The course is broadly interdisciplinary and explores the boundaries and intersections of different disciplinary practices and frameworks.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
AMCV0190B: Latina Popular Culture: Mujeres in Art, Performance, and Print
Felicia I. Salinas
This course looks at Chicana/Latina expressive culture from the 1940s to the present. Students will analyze Chicana/Latina subjectivity, identity, and consumption through paintings, popular novels, film, music, and magazines.
Sem. II, M.,W. 8:30-9:50
AMCV1611M: Trauma and the Shame of the Unspeakable: Slavery, the Holocaust, and Childhood Sexual Abuse
Beverly Haviland
The problem of representing traumatic experience has been raised by philosophers, artists, and survivors. This course compares three historical situations by reading histories, memoirs, fictions, poems; viewing photographs and film; and analyzing the material cultural artifacts such as memorials and museums. Readings will include Freud, Fanon; Harriet Jacobs, Primo Levi, Toni Morrison and "Maus" by Art Spi Gelman.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 2:30-3:50
CLASSICS
CLAS0210I: How Women were Seen
David Konstan
Classical literature offers a wide array of representations of women, from loyal wives like Penelope to murderesses like Medea, from powerful queens like Dido to helpless slaves like the women of Troy after the destruction of their city. Through a selection of poems and prose texts, almost all composed by men, we shall attampt to gain insight into the place of women in the ancient Greek and Roman imagination.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 10:00-10:50
CLAS 0760: Ancient Utopias/ Imaginary Places
Jeri B. Debrohun
Explores the ancient Greco-Roman utopian tradition in its two branches: literary depictions of mythological or fantastic utopian visions, including representations of societies remote in time ("Golden Age") or place (Homer's Phaeacia); and literature that criticizes contemporary society or describes an idealized "possible" society (Plato's Republic; Aristophanes' Ekklesiazusae). Also considers the postclassical utopian (and dystopian) traditions.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 2:00-2:50
ENGLISH
ENGL1310A: "Firing the Canon": Early Modern Women Writers
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Rediscovery and reconsideration of works by early modern women have changed the literary canon: works by women are becoming mainstream, and they are changing the way we read “traditional” texts. This course includes poetry, drama, fiction, letters, diaries, and essays by writers including Lanyer, Wroth, Cavendish, Behn, Manley, Haywood, Scott, Fielding, and Montagu.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 10:30-11:50
ENGL1560A: Jane Austen and George Eliot
Ellen Rooney
A survey of the major novels of Austen and Eliot. Readings will also include contemporary reviews and responses, letters, and Eliot's critical prose, as well as literary theory and criticism addressing questions such as novelistic form, realism and narrativity, the problem of the subject, the politics of aesthetics, and the changing status of the woman writer in the 19th century. Enrollment limited to 20 seniors and juniors.
Sem. II, W. 3:00-5:20
ENGL1760H: African American Women Novelists
Dorothy L. Denniston
Traces the development of African American women's literary tradition from 1859 to the present. Authors include Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 1:00-2:20
ENGL1900R: Queer Relations: Theories of Subjectivity and Community
Jacques Khalip
This course explores the career and efflorescence of diverse queer theoretical approaches, especially those that evoke “queerness” as a resonant term that tarries at the limits of critical thought. We will begin with Foucault and continue on to scholarship undertaken in the last 25 years. Emphasis will be on questions of identity, community, race, gender, ethics, and aesthetics.
Sem. II, TTh 10:30-11:50
FRENCH
FREN1720B: Foreign Bodies: Forbidden Sexualities in Africa and the Caribbean
Nathalie J. Etoke-Ilda
The practice of homosexuality is a crime in several Caribbean and African countries. In Uganda, it is referred as "carnal knowledge of another against nature" while Zimbabwe's president Mugabe claimed homosexuals are "worse than pigs and dogs." We will explore ways in which artistic forms engage the LGBT experience within predominantly heterosexual societies. Topics include: psychoanalysis, Black feminism, Black Queer theory, HIV/AIDS, gender role socialization.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 11:00-11:50
GREEK
GREK 1110Q: Greek Erotic Literature: From Plato to the Medieval Romances
Efstratios Papaioannou
A survey of desire in Greek writing, with an emphasis on post-classical texts. We explore Platonic love, Roman Greek literature on eros, friendship in late antique and medieval rhetoric and letter-writing, erotic epigrams from Imperial to Middle Byzantine times, depictions of the erotic in hagiographical texts, and, finally, the twelfth-century revival of romantic fiction.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 2:30-3:50
HISTORY
HIST1974L: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
James N. Green
Utilizing historical sources about Brazil from the colonial period to the present, we will consider how the family, politics, culture, and economy have conditioned sexual and power relations between men and women, and how notions of honor, gender, and sexuality have structured class and ethnic relations within Brazilian society.
Sem. II, Th. 4:00-6:20
HIST 2971F: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Tara E. Nummedal
Sem. II, M. 3:00-5:20
HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
HIAA1440A: Visual Culture of Medieval Women
Sheila Bonde
The course treats the history of women as the commissioners, creators and subjects of medieval art, architecture and material culture. Case studies are drawn from western Europe, Byzantium and medieval Islam. Weekly seminars will consider, among other topics: feminist perspectives in medieval history and art history; the imaging of women in medieval art; archaeological approaches to gender and the analysis of gendered spaces; the art and architecture of female spirituality; and the representation of identity through the body, costume and dance. Enrollment limited to 25. Open to graduates and undergraduates. Written permission required.
Sem. II, W. 3:00-5:20
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MCM1502D: Figures of Fetishism
Elizabeth Weed
Beginning with early European imaginings of the African fetish and their traces in Kant and Hegel, the seminar will focus on the ways fetishism figures in the theories of Marx and Freud, as well as in contemporary theorists who find fetishism compelling. Readings: Marx, Althusser, Freud, Lacan, Zizek, Bhabha, Mulvey, and others. Prerequisites - two of the following: MCM 0100, 0150, 0230, 0240, 0250, 0260, 1110. Preferences given to juniors, seniors and graduate students. All others seek permission from the instructor.
Sem. II, 3:00-5:20
MCM2300B: Television, Gender and Sexuality
Lynne Joyrich
This course investigates how television produces and reproduces constructions of gender and sexuality through its institutional form (as it maps relations between the public and the private, the domestic and the social, the inside and the outside), narrative patterns (as it circulates family romances, links gender and genre, and mediates sexual and social tensions), and spectatorial relations (as it variously addresses viewers as sexed and gendered subjects, consumers and commodities, familial and defamiliarized viewers). Enrollment limited to 20. Preference given to graduate students, and then to seniors and juniors in Modern Culture & Media, Art- Semiotics, MCM-German, MCM-Italian, Semiotics French and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Instructor’s permission required for all undergraduate students. Interested students who cannot pre-register should come to the first day of class to fill out an application for admission.
Sem. II, W. 1:30-3:50, T 7:00-10:00 PM
SOCIOLOGY
SOC0170: The Family
Nancy Luke
The state of the contemporary family generates debate within and beyond sociology. That debate is considered by examining different definitions of family, changing gender roles within the family, and the family in cross-cultural context. Special issues include new family forms, such as gay and lesbian families and biological and step-parenthood, as well as changing patterns of work and housework.
Sem. II, T.,Th. 2:30-3:50
UNIVERSITY COURSES
UNIV0830: Women, Magic, and Power, 1800-1960
Examines the lives of about twenty prominent women in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, linked in a network of personal acquaintance, who sought to gain power and bring about political and social reforms by magic or radically unconventional religion. They include women who were known as mesmerists, spiritualists, religious teachers, physicians, sex reformers, politicians, occultists, actors, and poets. Prerequisite: UC 82 (UNIV 0820), or one women's studies course, or permission of instructor.
Sem. II, TBA
RELATED COURSES
SPRING 2008
The following courses address issues of women, gender and/or sexuality for part of the semester. They may count toward the concentration with permission of the concentration advisor.
AMCV1611V: Color Me Cool: A Survey of Contemporary Graphic Novels
Ralph E. Rodriguez
This course surveys a variety of comic books and graphic novels, both mainstream and independent. The emphasis, however, will be on the independent graphic novel. Students will also read history and criticism to understand better the context from which the books emerge and to grasp more firmly their visual and textual aesthetics.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 1:00-1:50
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH0100: Cultural Anthropology: Understanding Human Societies
Daniel J. Smith
This course examines what it means to be human in different cultures. We will study a range of theories and methods used to study culture, including ethnography, the intensive and personal study of cultures that is a hallmark of anthropology. We will learn how anthropology contributes to understanding social problems like racism, genocide, disease, militarism, and social inequalities of all kinds.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 1:00-1:50
BIOLOGY
BIOL0200: The Foundation of Living Systems
John J. Stein
A broad overview of biological systems, emphasizing patterns and processes that form the basis of life. Explores essentials of biochemistry, molecular, and cellular biology and their relationship to the larger issues of ecology, evolution, and development. Examines current research trends in biology and their influence on culture. Appropriate for all students interested in biology. Serves as a gateway course to much of the intermediate and advanced curriculum.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 11:00-11:50
BIOL1920A: Imperialism and Public Health in Africa: Past and Present
Lundy Braun
This interdisciplinary course addresses the epistemological dimensions of public health in changing imperial contexts in Africa, focusing on the following questions: What are the consequences of imperial science, as materialized in public health theories and practices, for the production of knowledge about peoples, their lives, and their human possibilities? What was the role of public health in producing knowledge about race, racial difference, and disease? Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required. An application for entry will be distributed in the first day of class.
Sem. II, Th. 4:00-6:20 PM
COMMUNITY HEALTH
PHP2180: Critical Epidemiology
Sally Zierler
This advanced graduate seminar is a critical history of epidemiologic concepts and methods, emphasizing 19th century to the present. Students build on teachings from BC 212 to understand and apply theoretical challenges of disease definitions and causal thinking. Weekly reading and writing assignments strengthen skills in awareness of belief systems and construction of facts within specific ideologic frameworks. Prerequisite: BC 212.
Sem. II, W. 1:00-4:00 PM
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COLT 14250V: Visionary Fictions
Edward J. Ahearn
A series of works revealing the enigmatic features of visionary or ecstatic writing. Writers will be chosen from among Blake, Novalis, Breton, Burroughs, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Peter Ackroyd, Jamaica Kincaid.
Sem. II, M. 3:00-5:20
ENGLISH
ENGL 0400C – Matters of Romance
Elizabeth J. Bryan
Narratives (1100-1500) of men, women, and elves seeking identity on the road, in bed, and at court. Readings (in modern English) include Arthurian romances, Havelok, lais by Marie de France, and Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale." Primarily for freshmen and sophomores.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 10:00-10:50
ENGL 1310T - Chaucer
Elizabeth J. Bryan
Texts in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer including the romance Troilus and Criseyde; dream vision poems Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls; Chaucer's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; his shorter poems; and two Canterbury Tales. Prior knowledge of Middle English not required. Not open to first-year students.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 2:00-2:50
ETHNIC STUDIES
ETHN0790A: Latina/o Literature
Ralph E. Rodriguez
This course will introduce students to a broad array of Latina/o literature- fiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novels. While there is a long tradition of Latina/o literature in the United States, we will focus primarily on a period from 1970 to the present. Aimed to familiarize students with debates in the field, the readings will also include critical essays. Enrollment is limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 10:00-10:50
HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
HIAA0750: Imagining Nation and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
K. Dian Kriz
Course will examine visual culture in the context of socio-political transformations during the period. We'll analyze oil paintings, watercolors, prints, and phenomena such as the panorama and the Great Exhibition. While we will look briefly at artistic production in Spain and Germany, the geographical focus will be on the two major Western colonial powers, Great Britain and France.
Sem. II, M.,W.,F. 11:00-11:50
HISTORY
HIST1970T: The Prism of Ephemera: British History through Material Culture, 1500-1939
Deborah A. Cohen
A Victorian dance-card, a Depression-era movie poster, a brass button from a Napoleonic War uniform, a notebook of handwritten recipes, a funeral, or a sinuous garden pathway: all of these objects and phenomena are classified as "ephemera" ¿ historical data of transitory existence. And yet, the ephemeral object or experience is often surprisingly durable and revealing of the historical past. In this seminar, we will explore the secret meanings of the past that material objects can help us unlock. We will focus upon the histories of British families and their milieu throughout this period: how ephemeral data can not only help us understand how they lived and their value systems, but also how and why those values changed over time.
Sem. II, W. 3:00-5:20
2005-2006 Gender Studies Cross-Listed Courses
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AC 0019.S01
Sex, Love, and the Politics of Marriage, 1850 - Present
A. Mazaris
Situating current debates over gay marriage and 'family values' in a cultural and historical context, we'll question the notion that marriage is a 'natural' way to organize families and societies. Asking, how has the institution of marriage been economically legally, and socially enforced. We'll examine alternative visions of kinship and love, and their sometimes difficult relationships to the state. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Semester II, L Hour
AC 0019.S06
Beyond Nature Writing: Eco-Critical Readings of Race, Gender, and Landscape
S. D. Wald
Ecocriticism studies the relationship between literature and the environment. This course builds a critical perspective on nature through examinations of landscape representations in popular culture, social movements, and the built environment. Throughout the course we examine the response of contemporary writers to three major themes of these representations: Wilderness, Environmental Justice, and the Global City. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Semester I, AB Hour
AC 0161.S02
American Women and Social Activism, 1860-1920
M. J. Buhle
Examines women's activities in a variety of reform/radical movements, beginning with volunteer efforts during the Civil War. Includes topics such as anti-lynching campaigns, working-class mobilizations, efforts to promote birth control and sexual freedom, and civil and civic rights and responsibilities. Consideration given to cross-class organizations and issues of race and ethnicity.
Semester 1, F Hour
AC0161.S12 Women/Writing/Power: Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde and Feminist Literary Theory
B. Haviland
A comparative study of major literary and critical works by Maryse Condé, (including I,Tituba ,Black Witch of Salem ,Crossing the Mangrove , and Windward Heights ) and Toni Morrison (including Tar Baby ,Recitatif , and Beloved ) in the context of the development of feminist literary theory, focusing particularly on how issues of race and gender are addressed.
Semester II, B Hour
ANTHROPOLOGY
AN0134.S01 Comparative Sex Roles
L. M. Fruzzetti
Covers specific cross-cultural issues of gender, cultural roles, the status of women, and their structural position in society. Themes of gender representations in the field of economics, ritual, and politics underline the concerns of the course. Though African and Asian communities are the primary focus, aspects of American society are drawn into consideration when relevant.
Semester II
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
CO 0282.S01
The 'Tenth Muse' Phenomenon
S. Merrim
The texts and contexts of women writing in English, Spanish and French, during the sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries. Often dubbed 'Tenth Muses,' these first early modern women writers to gain public prominence played 'extreme games' and/or epitomized socially sanctioned scripts for women. Authors include, among others: Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Sor Juana, Mme de Lafayette, Maria de Zayas.
Semester I, N Hour
ENGLISH
EL 0176.S08
African American Women Novelists
D. Denniston
Traces the development of African American women's literary tradition from 1859 to the present. Authors include Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, N Hour
EL 0020.S03
Wayward Women of Victorian Literature
R. Summerhays
Why are disobedient, delusional, and dangerous women central to so many 19th-century British texts? Examines the cultural anxieties about sexuality, nationality, and class that quixotic females, prostitutes, vampires, and madwomen both embody and regulate. Includes Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Coleridge, Collins, Stoker, C. Rossetti. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Semester I, D Hour
EL 0020.S05
Making Men: Masculinity before 1860
J. A. Melson
How do we explain the prevalence of rakes, libertines, fops, dandies, and other male figures in the English literary tradition from 1660-1860? How did political crises and emerging ideas of the nation influence the construction of masculinity in this period? Topics include sexual transgression, sentiment, virtue, and effeminacy. Readings by Dryden, Behn, Richardson, Sterne, Shelley, and Brontë. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Semester I, E Hour
EL 0080.S01
City Novels
T. Katz
Reads 20th-century novels about the city from the U.S. and England to ask the following questions: How does the city affect the way we grow up, think, move, and see? How is the city divided by class, by race, by gender? Do the novels imagine solutions to these problems? Authors may include Woolf, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Wright, Cisneros, Morrison.
Semester I, G Hour
EL 0123.S01
Chaucer
E. J. Bryan
Texts in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer including the romance Troilus and Criseyde; dream vision poems Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls; Chaucer's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; his shorter poems; and two Canterbury Tales. Prior knowledge of Middle English not required, but EL 21 is recommended as background. Not open to first-year students.
Semester I, J Hour
EL 0151.S03
Austen and Her Predecessors
M. A. Rabb
Before turning to an in-depth consideration of Austen's major work, this course takes a revisionary view of the rise of the novel by studying fiction by women writers from Aphra Behn to Mary Wollstonecraft. Readings include Haywood's Love in Excess, Inchbald's A Simple Story, Burney's Evelina, and, of course, Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.
Semester I, K Hour
EL 0151.S05
Sensation and Sensibility
N. Armstrong
Reads fiction, poetry, and aesthetic theory of the 18th and 19th centuries to consider how feelings that enter the individual with external stimuli may act as 'influences' or 'contaminants.' How do such feelings interact with emotions that seem to arise strictly from within the individual? Works by Locke, Sterne, Walpole, Fielding, Brontë, Eliot, and Wilde.
Semester II, J Hour
EL 0176.S05
Race, Writing, and Manhood: Rhetorics of the "Authentic" in African and Asian American Literature
D. Y. Kim
Explores the interrelatedness of racial, sexual, and literary identity in works by U.S. black and Asian male writers. Particular interest given to how the issue of homosocial desire frames literary accounts of racial authenticity. Writers and theorists studied may include James Baldwin, Frank Chin, Ralph Ellison, Frantz Fanon, David Henry Hwang. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester I, Q Hour
EL 0176.S06
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
R. Reichman
This course asks how and why Virginia Woolf haunts our culture, approaching her status as a cultural icon through her novels, essays, diaries and letters. We will explore her work in the contexts of history, modernism, and literary influences, and will examine the dimensions of Woolf's afterlife--a posthumous dynamic that shapes issues in art, politics, and gender. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, M Hour
EL 0176.S07
Nationalizing Narratives: Advanced Studies in the Twentieth-Century U.S. Novel
D. Y. Kim
Focuses on the complex relationship between the genre of the novel and nationalist rhetorics in the modern U.S. Gives particular attention to how literary discourses of nationalism articulate with those of race, gender, and sexuality. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, Q Hour
ETHNIC STUDIES
ET 0079.S04
Latina/o Literature
R.E. Rodriguez
This course will introduce students to a broad array of Latina/o literature-fiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novels. While there is a long tradition of Latina/o literature in the United States, we will focus primarily on a period from 1970 to the present. Aimed to familiarize students with debates in the field, the readings will also include critical essays. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester I, K Hour
FRENCH STUDIES
FR 0131.S01
Femmes écrivains
G. Schultz
This course will both introduce students to important female-authored texts from the 19th century to the present, and address theoretical issues pertaining to women and writing. Topics include: the relation of gender to genre; the écriture féminine debate; development of feminist thought; women's relation to masculine literary traditions. George Sand, Rachilde, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux.
Semester II, K Hour
GENDER STUDIES
GN 0009.S01
From Pamela to Bridget Jones: Writing Women in Diaries and Letters
M. Klawunn
We have a cultural preoccupation with confession that is only proliferating with reality television and the popularity of blogs, but what are the literary precedents for this form and how do we understand the development of a confessional genre in fiction? This seminar will explore fictional uses of diaries and letters, asking questions about voice and its appropriation, decorum and madness in relation to constructions of gender, race, class, and sexual identity. Readings include Richardson, Jacobs, Woolf, Plath, Lorde, Winterson, and Fielding.
Semester I, P Hour
GN 0012.S01
Introduction to Gender Studies and the Disciplines
D. Groeneveld
Examines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of Gender Studies. What is a ‘discipline’ and what are the relationships between Gender Studies and the disciplines as we know them? What does it mean to take women or gender as objects of study within a given discipline? What is the relationship between the disciplines and “difference”? How does the interdisciplinary field of feminist theory address questions of difference such as race and ethnicity, economic inequalities, the postcolonial legacy, sexuality?
Semester I, I Hour
GN/0181, 0182
Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member.
Semesters I & II, Arr.
GN 0196.S01
Special Topics in Gender Studies: Feminst Theory/Feminist Activism
G. Cohee
Some complain that feminist theory is "too academic," that is has no ties to social justice or activism. On the other hand, there are those in the academy who accuse gender/women's studies of not being sufficently academic, of not being intellectually rigorous. With those two stereotypes in mind, we will read a variety of feminist theorists, some generally thought of as "academic," and some generally seen as "activist." Can academic theory be useful to political and social activists? Can activism inform academic theorizing? Limited to 20. Prerequisites: one theory course, one gender studies course, or permission of the instructor.
Semester I, N Hour
GN 0196.S02
Special Topics in Gender Studies: Gender Worlds
R. M. Abusharaf
Feminist scholarship has made us aware of the centrality of gender as a salient organizing principle around which human societies revolve. It illuminated the complex cultural variations which gender is constructed and maintained. This course will examine constructions of gender, and meanings that are attached to femininity and masculinity cross culturally. The contributions of feminist analysis pertaining to constructions will be explored through ethnographic studies and documentaries focusing on sexuality, culture, reproduction, ritual symbolism, violence and feminist politics.
Semester I, O Hour
GN 0196.S01
Special Topics in Gender Studies: Advanced Feminist Theory
D. Davis
This course will consider the ways feminist and poststructuralist theories inform one another. Beginning with the observation that notions of difference are at the heart of both theoretical currents, we will go on to examine how these theories conceive of the subject, of agency, of language, and of materiality, among other topics. In addition to reading and discussing various theorists, we will read and evaluate some examples of writing hostile to "theory" in the context of the culture wars. Readings will include Butler, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Grosz, Irigaray, Schor, and Wittig. Some knowledge of feminist and/or poststructuralist theory required.
Semester II, Q Hour
GN 0196.S02
Special Topics in Gender Studies: International Feminism
R. M. Abusharaf
This course examines the development of international feminist movements and explores the effects and significance of the intersections of gender, race, class, political situation, culture, and sexuality on feminism worldwide. Important interdisciplinary perspectives pertaining to the various forms of social organization that affect feminist thought and practice will be analyzed. The multiplicity, complexity and nature of international feminisms will also be covered through detailed examination of current critiques of the ostensible rift between mainstream First World and 'Third World' feminism. Studies on theoretical issues which feminism has introduced in the fields of colonialism, identity formation, economic development, international relations and social movements will be fully explored
Semester II, O Hour
GN 0197 & GN 0198
Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Semesters I & II, Arr.
GN 0199.01
Senior Seminar
L. Vanleynseele
A research seminar focussing on the research and writing of the participants. Required of concentrators; open to other advanced students by permission.
Semester I, M Hour
GN 0201, 0202
Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory
Carolyn Dean
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2005-06 is The Language of Victimization. Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Offered in conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Semesters I & II, Wed. 9:30-12:00
HISTORY
HI 0097.S18
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
J. Green
This course examines historical constructions of gender and multiple manifestations of sexuality in Latin America to consider how family, politics, culture, can economics have conditioned power relations between men and women. We will study how gender shaped and has been shaped by conquest, colonialism, slavery, capitalism, labor struggles, urbanization, migration, nationalism, and revolution. E Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, Q Hour
HI 197.S25
Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
T. Nummedal
This seminar explores the shifting relationship between lived experience and idealized constructions of femininity, masculinity and sexuality in Europe ca. 1500-1800. Topics include debates about women’s participation in culture and learning, crime, sodomy, moral reforms, and witchcraft. We will also examine the symbolic resonance of gender in constructions of nature, power and politics. This course is a seminar. Enrollment limited to 20.
Semester I, Q Hour
HI 197.S41
Women in Early Modern England
T. J. Harris
Selected topics in the social history of early modern England (c.1500-1800), with particular emphasis on the experiences of women. Themes to be addressed will include the family, working life, education, crime, politics, religion, and the early feminists. Not open to freshmen sophomores. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, M Hour
HI 0197.S91
American Masculinities.
E. Gorn
How have Americans defined manhood? And how have those definitions changed across time, social classes, ethnic and religious groups? We will explore what it means to 'be a man' in changing historical contexts. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, N Hour
HI 0197.S99
Body & Soul: Women & Health, 1860-1920
M. J. Buhle
Examines the history of women/gender in relation to American discourses about health and well-being (both physical and mental) from the era of the Civil War through the Progressive Era. It samples various movements in the United States, including efforts to control reproduction and initiatives to advance women into the medical and 'helping' professions. M Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester I, M Hour
HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
HA 0189.S01
Topics in Contemporary Art: Feminism - Art, Theory and Practice
M. Coughlin
Generations of feminist theory and theoretically driven art criticism from the 1970s to the present. Topics include British, American and French schools of thought, recent postcolonial critiques, psychoanalytic approaches, queer theory, arguments for the revival of beauty and the problem of post-feminism. Required weekly presentation of reading, oral presentation of final paper. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester I, M Hour
JUDAIC STUDIES
JS 0198.S06
Gendered Jewish Lives
L. Davidman
Examines how the interactions between traditional Jewish culture and the larger societies in which Jews lived have shaped the ideologies and realities of women's roles within Jewish societies. This course focuses on the modern period. The course is interdisciplinary, drawing on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, history, and feminist theory. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, Q Hour
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MC 0150.S08
Figures of Fetishism
E. Weed
Beginning with early European imaginings of the African fetish and their traces in Kant and Hegel, the seminar will focus on the ways fetishism figures in the theories of Marx and Freud. We will also look at contemporary theorists who find fetishism compelling. Among the questions to be asked: is there something particularly theoretical about fetishism? Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester II, Q Hour
MC 0230.S01
Television, Gender, and Sexuality
L. R. Joyrich
A consideration of how television produces and reproduces constructions of gender and sexuality through its institutional form (mapping relations between public and private, domestic and social, inside and outside), narrative patterns (circulating family romances, linking gender and genre), and spectatorial relations (variously addressing viewers as consumers and commodities, familial and sexed subjects).
Semester II, W. 1:00- 3:20 PM
PUBLIC POLICY
PP 0070.S10
Race, Class, and Education
B. Clifton
How do race and class affect the educational experiences of different minority groups in the United States, and in what ways is racial stratification a self-perpetuating cycle? Exposes students to the experiences and obstacles currently faced by African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans, and considers the relationship between these experiences and public policies that affect educational achievements of these racial groups. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Semester I, Q Hour
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RS 0088.S09
Women and Religion: A Cross-Cultural, Transhistorical Introduction
R. S. Kraemer
An introductory investigation of women's practices and beliefs in a wide range of traditions, ancient and modern, Western and Eastern; examples vary from year to year. Focuses on both description (and/or reconstruction) and development of productive theoretical models. Special attention to the relationships between religious systems and constructions of gender (ideas about masculine and feminine).
Semester II, G Hour
RS 0188.S02
Women, Gender, and Religion in India
D. M. Wulff
Introduces theoretical issues in the study of religion and gender and explores these issues in the cultural contexts of the Indian subcontinent. Considers conceptions of divinity as female as well as what the actual social locations and religious roles of women have been. An advanced seminar that presupposes substantial previous work in one of two areas: South Asian studies or gender studies. Previous work in religious studies also helpful.
Semester I, M Hour
RS 0188.S12
Jewish and Christian Women in Antiquity
R. S. Kraemer
What do we know about Jewish and Christian women in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and what difference does this make for the study of early Judaism, early Christianity and women's history and religions more broadly? An examination of literary, documentary and archaeological sources from the later Hellenistic period through the late Roman period, with generous assistance from recent scholarship and particular attention to issues of theory in women's and gender studies, and in religious studies.
Semester I, Q Hour
2006-2007 Gender Studies Cross-Listed Courses
AFRICANA STUDIES
AF AF0057.01
20th Century Black Feminist Thought and Practice in the U.S.
P.L. Rose
This course will explore the ways that black women in the U.S. have experienced racial and gendered discrimination as well as what sorts of strategies (e.g., political, intellectual, narrative, and creative) black women have devised in response. We will be especially concerned with elements of African-American feminist thought and its articulation in writings, music, literature and practice/activism in the 20th century U.S.
Sem. I, MWF 12-12:50 (E Hour)
AF 0060.01
Race, Gender, and Urban Politics.
K.Y. Perry
This course will introduce students to the methods and practice of studying black urban life with a primary focus on US cities. We will critically examine the urban cultural studies debates concerned with race, gender, class and sexuality. The approach of the course will be interdisciplinary, drawing upon works from anthropology, literature, history, music, and film. Topics include tourism, immigration, poverty, popular culture, gentrification, violence, and criminalization.
Sem. I, MW 8:30-9:50 (AB Hour)
AF 0085.01
The Politics of Gender in the Caribbean Novel
G. Lamming
This course will examine 20th Century Caribbean Literature as a genre, which poses challenges to colonialism and raises profound questions of sovereignty. It will examine how Contemporary Caribbean Literature contributes to the world of literature in general. DP
Sem. I, W 3-5:20 (N Hour)
AF 0105.02
Black Women's Political Autobiography.
K.Y. Perry
How black women in the United States and elsewhere have written about their lives in autobiographies will be the focus of this course. We will discuss black women's use of autobiographical writing to document their own individual experiences in political movements as well as to provide key insights into how black people throughout the black diaspora have organized in recent history.
Sem. I, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
AC 0019.05
Queer Public Histories.
A. Mazaris.
This hands-on course explores how public history projects (oral histories, museums, archives, documentaries) document gay and lesbian communities. We will discuss how historical and contemporary LGBT stories have been collected and we will examine the various queer identities that emerge through this process. Students will carry out their own public history projects.
Sem. II, MW 8:30- 9:50 AM (AB Hour)
AC 0019.06
Cosmo Girls, Soap Fans, and Romance Readers: Gendered Popular Cultures Around the World.
A. Tokgoz
This course examines women's relationship to transnational popular cultures, including soap operas, chick flicks, and women's magazines. We discuss representations and women as audiences, cultural producers, and feminists. Students research pop forms around the world exploring their feminist implications. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Sem. I, TTh 2:30-3:50 (K Hour)
AC 0161.05
Women and Social Activism
M. Buhle
Examines women's activities in a variety of reform/radical movements, beginning with volunteer efforts during the Civil War. Includes topics such as anti-lynching campaigns, working-class mobilizations, efforts to promote birth control and sexual freedom, and civil and civic rights and responsibilities. Consideration given to cross-class organizations and issues of race and ethnicity. DP
Sem. I, MWF 1-1:50 (F Hour)
AC 0161.06
Self/Identity in American Culture.
M. Buhle
Follows the history of the behavioral sciences--psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis--in defining concepts of 'self' and 'identity' in the 20th century. Examines the relationship among scholarly formulations, popular culture, and politics. Comprises three 'case studies': narcissism, multiple personalities, and gender dysphoria. Includes clinical training films, Hollywood films, first person narratives, and scholarship in behavioral sciences and history.
Sem. II, MWF 1-1:50 (F Hour)
AC 161.14
Sex. Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations
M. Garcia
This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of the subject.
Sem. II, MWF 2-2:50 (G Hour)
AC 0190.03
The Black Female Body in American Culture
A. Keizer
This course on gender and representation will use the black female body as an example of the ways in which images, both verbal and visual, of women of color are utilized within American culture. Through literature, film, visual art, and popular culture, we will consider the legacy of slavery, the persistence of stereotypes, sexual violence, and black women's resistance. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, T 4-6:20 (P Hour)
ANTHROPOLOGY
AN 0225
Psychology of Gender.
M. Hollos
This course will critically examine the role of gender in development and maturation, or the psychological differentiation of males and females, in the context of their sociocultural environment. It will view development as a continuous process that begins with early experiences in childhood and continues to unfold throughout maturity.
S/NC.
Sem. I, T. 1:30- 3:50 PM
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
CO 0121.01
Introduction to the Theory of Literature
S. Bernstein & Z. Sng
An historical introduction to problems of literary theory from the classical to the postmodern. Issues to be examined include mimesis, rhetoric, hermeneutics, history, psychoanalysis, formalisms and ideological criticism (questions of race, gender, sexuality, postcolonialism). Primarily for advanced undergraduates. Lectures discussions; several short papers.
Sem. I, MWF 1-1:50 (F Hour)
CO 0181.05
Opera, Politics, History, Gender
S. Stewart-Steinberg & M. Steinberg
The will to social order and the desire to transgress it: this conflict in modern culture has been negotiated dramatically in opera. This seminar concentrates on operas by Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Debussy, and Puccini. Each opera will be placed into dialogue with historical and theoretical texts and analyze how opera engages power in relation to gender, nationalism, modernism, and crises of representation. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required. LL DP (Interested students should register for MU 135.01)
Sem. II, W 3-5:20 (N Hour)
CO 0181.07
Michel Foucault and Comparative Thinking
R. Chow
Focuses on the thematics and controversies of Foucault's work, both through examination of his texts (e.g. History of Sexuality, Discipline and Punish, The Order of Things, and others) and through discussions of his interlocutors writing on subjects such as sexual politics, knowledge production, history, feminism, literature, race and bipower. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
ENGLISH
EL 0020.01
That’s So Gay: Readings from Queer America, 1850-2000
J. Iacono
What makes a text queer? The author? Plot? A protagonist? Or, perhaps the reader? This class will consider the ways that texts can 'go gay' and take on queer meanings. We'll tackle the queer canon (Melville, Cather, Baldwin), contemporary LGBTQ fictions and put some bend into so-called straight novels. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Sem. I, MWF 1-1:50 (F Hour)
EL 0020.02
Death Becomes Her: Dying Daughters in American Literature and Culture.
B.D. Sweeney.
Why do the plots of so much American fiction and film pivot on the death of a daughter? We will explore how the deaths of daughters negotiate cultural and aesthetic problems in texts by Hawthorne, Poe, Nabokov, Morrison, Stowe, Larsen, Anne Rice, and films, including Night of the Living Dead. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Sem. II, MWF 9-9:50 (B Hour)
EL 0020.05
Black Diasporic Women’s Writing
J. Lee
This course will provide an introduction to a wide range of literature in English by black women. Issues to be addressed include politics of language, psychology of colonization, legacy of colonial education, popular culture as resistance, nationalism and globalization. Kincaid, Vera, Smith, Dangaremba, Aidoo, Bessie, Hodge, Emecheta. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required.
Sem. II, MWF 1-1:50 (F Hour)
EL 0131.04
Shakespeare’s Sexual Politics
L. Tennenhouse
This course will study the sexual politics at work in Shakespeare's poetry and drama and how that politics changed over time. Texts to be studied will include selections from his poetry, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra.
Sem. II, MW 1-1:50, C01, C02, F 1-1:50
EL 0156.02
Jane Austen and George Eliot
E. Rooney
A survey of the major novels of Austen and Eliot. Readings will also include contemporary reviews and responses, letters, and Eliot's critical prose, as well as literary theory and criticism addressing questions such as novelistic form, realism and narrativity, the problem of the subject, the politics of aesthetics, and the changing status of the woman writer in the 19th century. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, W 3-5:20
ETHNIC STUDIES
ET0079
Latina/o Literature
Ralph Rodriguez
This course will introduce students to a broad array of Latina/o literature-fiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novels. While there is a long tradition of Latina/o literature in the United States, we will focus primarily on a period from 1970 to the present. Aimed to familiarize students with debates in the field, the readings will also include critical essays. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, T/Th 2:30-3:50 (K Hour)
ET0160 (AC0161 S14)
Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations
Matthew Garcia
This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of the subject.
Sem. II, M/W/F 2:00-2:50 PM (G Hour)
FRENCH STUDIES
FR 0106.01
Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel
G. Schultz
Examines constructions of gender and sexuality in relation to the schools and styles of the 19th-century French novel, including romanticism, realism, decadence, and the popular novel. Works by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, accompanied by non-fictional sources in early sexology and criminology.
Sem. I, MW 3-4:20
FR 0260.01
French Feminisms meet Queer Theory
G. Schultz
Feminist and GLBTQ thought and activism in contemporary France, their conflicts and compatibilities, and their exchanges with American critical theory. Topics include Beauvoir's legacy and 1970's feminisms (Cixous, Irigaray, Wittig); Foucault on the history of sexuality; Bourdieu on masculine domination; recent public policy debates (le PaCS and la parité); the impact of US queer theory on GLBTQ studies in France.
Sem. II, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
GENDER STUDIES
GN 0010.01
Introduction to Feminist Theory
G. Cohee
An historical and cross-cultural introduction to the various strands of feminist theory. The course will cover a range of theoretical frameworks, examine the connections and discomforts between theory and activism, and explore the impact of feminist theories on contemporary thought.
Sem. II, TTh 2:30-3:50 (K Hour)
GN 0012.01
Introduction to Gender Studies and the Disciplines
E. Weed
Examines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of Gender Studies. What is a ‘discipline’ and what are the relationships between Gender Studies and the disciplines as we know them? What does it mean to take women or gender as objects of study within a given discipline? What is the relationship between the disciplines and “difference”? How does the interdisciplinary field of feminist theory address questions of difference such as race and ethnicity, economic inequalities, the postcolonial legacy, sexuality?
Sem. II, TTh 9:00-10:20 (H Hour)
GN 0181, 0182
Independent Study and Research
Independent reading and research for upper-level students under the direction of a faculty member.
Sems. I & II, Arr.
GN 0197-0198
Directed Research and Thesis
Independent research under the direction of a faculty member, leading to a thesis. Required of honors candidates.
Sems. I & II Arr.
GN 0199.01
Senior Seminar
T. Katz
A research seminar focusing on the research and writing of the participants. Required of concentrators; open to other advanced students by permission.
Sem. I, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
GN 0201, 0202
Research Seminar: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory
L. Joyrich
An advanced research seminar in selected topics in feminist theory and gender studies. The seminar's focus for 2006-07 is. Mediated Bodies/Bodies of Mediation. Limited number of graduate students admitted. Written permission required. Written permission required. Offered in conjunction with the Pembroke Seminar.
Sems. I & II, Wed. 10:30-1:00
HISTORY
HI 97.24
Politics of Gender in the U.S. from World War II to the E.R.A.
R. Self
Gender and sexuality in the U.S. from World War II through the defeat of The Equal Rights Amendment in 1982. Examines issues of privacy, gender equality, reproduction, marriage, the family, homosexuality, and roles and expectations of men and women in both private and public life. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required. FYS LL DP DP
Sem. II, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
HI 0197.38
Female Maladies: Women and Mental Health and Disorder in the United States, since 1860
M. Buhle
This course represents a topical overview of mental disorders that have been frequently diagnosed since the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include hysteria and neurasthenia; Freudian theories on sexuality and femininity; eating disorders; borderline personality disorder; psychotherapeutics and psychotropics; and anti-psychiatry. Readings cross several disciplines. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
HI 0197.85
Female Mystics and Witches in Early Modern Europe.
M. Sluhovsky
In early modern Europe many women were recognized as prophetesses and visionaries; more than 35,000 were executed as witches. How can we understand these two developments? Were they related? This seminar examines female mysticism and the witchcraze through biographies, confessions and trial records using theological, anthropological, and gender paradigms. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
JUDAIC STUDIES
JS 98.12
Women and Men in Film.
L. Davidman
This course will explore how Jews' attempts to assimilate into the larger society of the United States affected the interactions between women and men over the course of the twentieth Century. We will use films as texts in order to analyze how changes in the wider society shaped, and were shaped by, Jew's gendered dynamics. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, W 3-5:20 (N Hour)
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MC 0150.5
Seeing Queerly: Queer Theory, Film Video.
L. Joyrich
While cinema has typically circumscribed vision along (hetero) sexually normative lines, can film also empower viewers to see 'queerly'? How do we, as sexual subjects (gay and straight), 'look' in the cinema, in both senses of the word? This course addresses questions of sexuality and representation as it considers both 'mainstream' and 'alternative' productions. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, T 1:30-3:50, L05 M 7-11 PM
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PS182.53
The Politics of Race and Gender
K. Gamble
Politicians and scholars make a number of predictions about political life based on assumptions about race and gender. This course examines the roles of race and gender in American politics with a particular emphasis on women of color. The course focuses in social movements, political participation, and political representation. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required. LL DP
Sem. II, Th 4-6:20 (Q Hour)
PS182.59
Feminism and Political Theory.
S.R. Krause
Examines recent developments in feminist scholarship and their implications for political theory and politics. We explore the impact of gender-differentiated identities on moral reasoning and political agency; the relationships between feminism and classical liberalism, feminism and radical democracy, and feminism and the law; feminist theories of citizenship; and the implications of multiculturalism for feminist politics. Enrollment limited to 20.
Sem. II, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
THEATRE SPEECH AND DANCE
TA 0128.18
Theatres of Feminism: Performing Sex, Race, and Gender
R. Schneider
How has feminist theory influenced theatre and informed engagements with the live (yet mediated) body? How has sex, gender, and race critical theory impacted performance art (and vise versa)? What questions does performance theory and theories of perfomativity bring to gender, race and sex critical studies? A variety of artists are explored in depth. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, TTh 2:30-3:50 (K Hour)
AFRICANA STUDIES
AF 0099.01
Black Lavender
E. Terry-Morgan
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of plays that address the identities and issues of black gay men and lesbians and offers various perspectives from within and without the black gay and lesbian artistic communities. Focuses on analysis of unpublished titles. Also includes published works by Baraka, Bullins, Corbitt, Gibson, Holmes, West, and Pomo Afro Homos. Some evening screenings of videotapes. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required. DP
Sem. II, TTh 10:30-11:50 AM (I Hour)
ANTHROPOLOGY
AN 0010.01
Cultural Anthropology: Understanding Human Societies.
M. Gutmann
This course examines what it means to be human in different cultures. We will study a range of theories and methods used to study culture, including ethnography, the intensive and personal study of cultures that is a hallmark of anthropology. We will learn how anthropology contributes to understanding social problems like racism, genocide, disease, militarism, and social inequalities of all kinds. LL DP
Sem I, MWF 2-2:50 (G Hour)
AN 0020.01
Culture and Human Behavior
M. Hollos
The goal is to challenge our beliefs about some taken for granted assumptions about human behavior and psyche by examining cultures with different conceptions of personality, self and cognition. Will examine the issues of the role of nature and nurture in development, the nature of intelligence, coming of age, the association of psychological characteristics with gender and the naturalness of emotions. LL DP
Sem I, MWF 10-10:50 (C Hour)
AN 0102.01
AIDS in International Perspective Class
P. Symonds
Communities around the world have been affected in different ways by the HIV-AIDS pandemic. This course is concerned with cross-cultural variation in knowledge, perception, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in the world. Enrollment limited to 30. Written permission required. LL DP
Sem I, TTh 9-10:20 (H hour)
AN 0136.01
Cross Cultural Perspectives on Child Development
M. Hollos
This course will focus on the cultural transmission of human knowledge in formal and informal contexts. It is an exploration of the interface between the disciplines of anthropology and education. In this course, socialization, enculturation, education and schooling will be viewed as different forms of cultural transmission, effected by both formal and informal instruction. Enrollment limited to 50. Written permission required. DP
Sem. II, TTh 10:30-11:50 (I Hour)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
CO 0081.08
Desire and the Marketplace
M. Viswanathan
Studies love and desire as the interplay between men, women, and money in mercantilized societies, in seventeenth century Japan, eighteenth century England, nineteenth century France, and twentieth century Africa. Novels featuring female protagonists by Saikaku, Defoe, Flaubert, Emecheta and Bâ, readings in economic and feminist theory, and visual art--Japanese woodcuts, Hogarth, nineteenth century French painting, West African arts. LL
Sem. II, MWF 11-11:50 (D Hour)
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
CI 0104.01
Modern Chinese Literature
L. Wang
Introduces students to the most representative writers in 20th century China. Emphasizes textual and historical analyses. Major issues include Westernization, nationalism, revolution, class, gender, and literary innovations. Designated primarily as a literature course, rather than language class, and conducted entirely in Mandarin Chinese. Prerequisite: CI80 or permission of instructor.
Sem. II, TTh 10:30-11:50 (I Hour)
EA 0107. 01
China Modern: An Introduction to the Literature of Twentieth-Century China.
L. Wang
A general introduction to modern and contemporary Chinese literature from the May Fourth Movement to contemporary Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Emphasizes reading of literary works in relation to topics such as cultural tradition, modernity, nationalism, revolution, class, gender, region, cultural commodification, and literary innovations. Readings in English. No previous knowledge of Chinese required.
Sem. I, TTh 10:30-11:50 (I Hour)
EDUCATION
ED 143.01
The Psychology of Race, Class, and Gender
J. Demick
Focuses on the social construction of race, class, and gender and how this construction influences an individual's perception of self and other individuals. Topics include identity development, achievement, motivation, and sociopolitical development. Prerequisites: ED 80 or ED 127 or ED 171. Enrollment limited to 30. Written permission required.
Sem. I, T 4-6:20 (P Hour)
ENGLISH
EL 0136.03
The Ties that Bind: Domestic Friction and Renassiance Drama
J. Feerick
From revenge plays to domestic tragedies, family is a value to kill and die for in Renaissance drama. This course considers the cultural pressures such violence responds to, the contaminations it guards against, and explores the political life of these violent domestic affairs. Works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Heywood, Webster, and Middleton. Not open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. II, TTh 4-6:20 (Q Hour)
HISTORY
HI0194.01
Making the Nation: Race, Class, Gender, and the Concept of Citizenship in U.S. History.
R. Self
Explores meanings and history of citizenship in the U.S. from the drafting of the national constitution in 1787 to the present. Topics include legal, political, and social content of belonging to the nation. What does citizenship mean? What is the national body? Who has been defined in and out of the nation and why? Focus on race, class, gender, and nationality as analytical frameworks. LL DP
Sem. II, TTh 2:30-3:50 (K Hour)
MODERN CULTURE AND MEDIA
MC 0010.01
Introduction to Media
M. Doane
An introduction to the key forms that constitute modern media and cultural practice-- photography, film, television, video, and digital media. We will examine the material construction of these objects and work to produce a critique accounting for those representational forms that embodies theoretical concepts, approaches and strategies. Readings in Benjamin, Tagg, Mulvey, Feuer, Dienst, Manovich etc. LL
Sem. I, MW 1-1:50, and assorted conference times, L01 M,T 7-11 PM
MC 0120.04
Narrative Theory
N. Armstrong
Investigates various theoretical attempts to explain what narratives are, how some come into dominance, how others challenge that fact of domination, and how as a result narratives change historically. We begin with structuralism, grapple with post-structuralist transformations of narrative theory, and finally consider how cultural studies reworks these earlier models. Requires three 3-5 page papers. Enrollment limited to 50. Written permission required.
Sem. II, TTh 10:30-11:50 (I Hour)
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RS 0188.08
Ancient Christianity and the Sensing Body
S. Harvey
Bodily experience and sensory engagement became increasingly important for Christians during their first six centuries. This seminar examines how and why the body and its senses gained worth for ancient Christians as instruments for gaining knowledge of God. Prerequisites: RS 71 or 72. Enrollment limited to 20. Written permission required.
Sem. I, M 3-5:20 (M Hour)
SLAVIC LANGUAGES
RU 0181.01
Tolstoy
S. Evdokimova
Close readings of Tolstoy's major novels (War and Peace and Anna Karenina, in particular) and shorter narratives with special emphasis on his iconoclastic ideas about art, religion, and society. Considers Tolstoy's formal innovation in a broader historical and cultural context. Lectures and discussion. No knowledge of Russian required.
Sem. I, TTh 1-2:20 (J Hour)
SOCIOLOGY
SO 0164.01
Social Exclusion
H. Silver
What does it mean to 'belong'? Why are some groups rejected and others accepted? This course examines the mechanisms of social integration and segregation, theories of diversity and hierarchy, and policies to reduce exclusion and inequality. DP
Sem. II, TTh 9-10:20 (H Hour)