WST 200 - Reading Women's Lives;Introduction to Women's Studies

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Meredith College

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Description:

(Fall, Offered Every Year) This course begins with our asking the seemingly simple question, What is a woman and a corollary question, What is feminism Women's studies scholars and activists in women's issues have made it their work to examine the historical and social constructions of gender from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. Throughout the course, you will be invited to think, speak, create, act and write critically about women's ideas and experience. We will work toward understanding how various aspects of women's identities, including age, race, class, and sexual orientation interconnect, and how these differences help women position themselves in relation to various forms of feminism. This course fulfills a cultural perspectives or social and behavioral science elective for general education requirements.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.meredith.edu

Phone Number:

(919) 760-8600

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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