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Women as victims and survivors of physical, psychological, and philosophical violence. Problems of rape, woman battering, incest, pornography and sexual harassment; examination of legal, religious and philosophical issues and alternatives for change.
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Examines the way women respond to urban environment, both literally and imaginatively. Special attention paid to sexual division of space, particular needs of immigrant and third world women, and utopian cities of sisterhood. Readings feature literary texts, augmented by an interdisciplinary range of theoretical and empirical studies of cities.
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Prerequisites: status; ENGL 100; and W/ST 101, BIOL 205, BIOL 207, or BIOL 211B. Fundamentals of anatomy and physiology relevant to the cause, prevention, and treatment of various health issues, including reproductive organ dysfunction, sexually-transmitted disease, infertility, contraception, pregnancy, osteoporosis, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Emphasizes lifestyle habits such as diet, exercise, and stress.
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Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and status or consent of instructor. Explores literature and lives of women authors of American Harlem Renaissance Period of 1920s. Examines critical reception, relative obscurity, and current re-discovery of these writers. Utilizes theoretical essays, biographical narratives, historical documents, and media images. Same course as ENGL 441.
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Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and status or consent of instructor. Analyzes how Chicana authors explore race, class, and gender. Focuses on use of sexuality, particularly with regard to cultural and literary stereotypes vs. experience and aesthetic practice. Themes will include desire, identity, empowerment through "traditional" roles, and violence and the body.Same as ENGL 442.
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Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENGL 100 and status or consent of instructor. Examines how war and struggles for democracy shape the social consciousness and political activism of Latinas. Uses literature, film, history, and political theory to examine the role of violence in women's lives, community organizing, and the conceptualization of a pan-Latina feminist movement. Letter grading only (A-F). Same course as CHLS 450A.
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Prerequisite/Corequisite: ENGL 100 and status or consent of instructor. Examines how war and struggles for democracy shape the social consciousness and political activism of Latinas. Uses literature, film, history, and political theory identify differences in contexts of community struggle and points of intersection within Latina activism. Letter grading only (A-F). Same course as CHLS 450B.
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Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation. A theoretical examination of four Christian-based feminist liberation theological traditions. Examines history of feminist theology, role of racism, sexism, and classism in North American theology, and importance of related theological developments among African-American, Latina-Chicana, and Asian American women. Letter grade only (A-F).
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Prerequisite: status or consent of instructor. Reviews feminist debates on racism, colonialism, and international human rights. Will consider current international women's rights issues and critiques of western feminist perspectives on veiling, genital surgeries, gender-based persecution, violence against women in war, sati, dowry murders, migration and trafficking.
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Prerequisite: 6 units of philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophical perspectives on sex and love explores philosophical issues concerning sex, gender and love through readings and discussion of classical and contemporary philosophical sources. Topics such as sexual perversion, romantic love and gender discrimination are examined. Same course as PHIL 455.
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