Women's Studies 120 - Interpreting Bodies And Pleasures

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University of California-Irvine

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120A Modern Pleasures: Bodies and Practices (4). Focus on the theory and history of pleasure within academic disciplines as well as in social and cultural processes and networks. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. 120B Image Problems: Stereotypes and Representations (4). Examination of scholarly approaches to gender stereotypes and politics of representation as they present possibilities for critical analysis and produce problems and limitations; how powerful ideas of gender intersect with other forms of social differentiation such as race and class. ( VII) 120C Engendering Colonial Bodies (4). Examination of the production of gender and sexuality in the contexts of colonialism and modernization; representations of colonialist and nationalist struggles over gender and race; female bodies as sites of contestation. ( VIII)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uci.edu/

Phone Number:

(949) 824-5011

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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