LA 331 - Issues in Women's Studies:Sex,Gender,and the Body in the New Millennium

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The Boston Conservatory

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3 hours weekly; 3 credits This introductory course on women's studies is meant for anyone interested in feminism, feminist activism, women's issues and their lives, as well as questions of gender and sexuality. It is an interdisciplinary course from a multicultural perspective for students who want to find out what the discipline of women's studies is about. Readings will include short essays on topics such as the various debates on women's reproductive rights, representations of women in art and popular culture, the commodification of the body in consumer culture, and women in cyberspace, side by side with selections of short fiction and film. Students will write one-page response essays per week. The focus will be on thinking about 'woman' as a global category, while looking at the history of keyideas about sexuality, gender, and the body, sexual difference, race and class from a transnational perspective. How are women's issues in America related to women's issues elsewhere in the world inthis era of globalization? The course will conclude with speculations on the future of feminism and feminist activism in the new millennium.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.bostonconservatory.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 536-6340

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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