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3.00 Credits
An examination of the First and Second Waves of the women’s movement in the United States, followed by an in-depth examination of the Third Wave, a term given to the feminist movement from 1990 forward. Contributions and the future of women’s rights and issues in the United States are analyzed through Third Wave feminist readings with a particular focus on women of color.
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3.00 Credits
Study of ecofeminism as systems of oppressions based on race, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that stem from a cultural ideology that enables the oppression of nature. The course explores ecofeminist theories, literature, and practice, including ecofeminist ethics, and the applications of ecofeminism to the lives of individual men and women, as well as cultural institutions and organizations. Cross-listed as PHL 307.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the experience of American working women: black and white, native and immigrant, organized and unorganized from the colonial period to the present day. Because work is defined as productive labor, this course will examine women as paid and unpaid workers in the marketplace as well as in the home. Some of the areas of study will be women on the frontier, women in the mills and factories, labor union women, women in the professions, and the history and politics of housework. Cross-listed as HST 310.
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Framework for thinking and learning about research in women’s studies. The course provides an overview of the terminology and key concepts in feminist research methods. It begins with an examination of feminist critiques of traditional methods of research and conceptions of knowledge. The course then covers, among other things, work on standpoint theory, research methods in the natural and social sciences, ethical/political issues in research and the practice of cross-cultural research.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of how pre-modern European societies understood, represented, and enforced gender differences. A wide variety of source material including saints’ lives, marriage contracts, sermons, law codes, guides for witch hunters, aristocratic portraits, and medical treatises and mystical poetry will be used to explore the changing answers to two basic questions: What makes a person a woman or a man? And how does this gender identity affect their lives in the world? The course content will move from the waning days of the Roman Empire through the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform. Cross-listed as HST 316.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of women’s history from the Renaissance to the present that critically examines the recent scholarship on this topic. The course will deal both with remarkable and ordinary women. Extensive use will be made of recent research on the history of the family and social demography as well as the more traditional areas of political, intellectual, and economic history. While emphasizing Western Europe, the course will include some material from the Americas and other areas. Cross-listed as HST 317.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the lives of various women in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere both from a literary and historical perspective. Examples of women whose lives are studied are Charlotte Bronte, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Cross-listed as HST 318.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or ANT 111 or SOC/ANT 113 The social construction of sexual identity in various societies of the world, including the United States. Same gender, “third gender,” and transgendered roles, relations, and ideologies are examined in ancient and modern societies. Cross-listed as ANT 319, SOC 319.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of representations of women in film and popular culture. Cross-listed as ARH 323.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: WMS 101 or SOC 101 or ANT 111 or SOC/ANT 113 A survey of basic human patterns of bonding and reproduction in different cultures, through human evolution to modern times, focusing on an exploration of issues surrounding sex, marriage and family in contemporary society. Cross-listed as ANT 325, SOC 325.
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