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This course, subtitled Grassrooots Resistance in the U.S., focuses on women as social actors challenging gender stereotypes; organizing to reduce poverty, racism, homophobia and violence; working to expand opportunities; and confronting barriers in education, the criminal justice system and politics. Popular analyses of women and social change often limit themselves to women's roles in families and paid workplaces. Focus is on ordinary women who are working collectively in diverse social settings to empower themselves and others, exploring barriers women face, goals and strategies for social change, and the rewards and challenges of feminist grassroots activism.
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The purpose of the course is to assist women in finding effective alternatives for the solutions of many familiar problems. It is designed to teach women how to handle themselves and their situations in an assertive manner. Women who have difficulty expressing both their positive and negative feelings, or who experiene anxiety when asserting their rights can benefit from this course.
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3.00 Credits
The students will explore the detective story as it emerged in the 19th century, expecially from the 1840s onward, and by the 1880s women as well as men were actively engage in writing detective fiction.
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3.00 Credits
This course will address debates through a comparison of traditional development studies and policy with feminist conceptualizations of gender and development.
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3.00 Credits
This course, subtitled Questions of Race, Class and Sexuality, is designed to give an introduction into conceptions of feminist theories. Moreover, much of the course will be spent reading and writing about theory. We will begin with an attempt to articulate the assumptions that underlie contemporary feminist theories by tracing the theoretical conceptions they are based upon. Our focus will be on the importance of the position and situation of the subject with respect to questions of class, race, sexuality, gender, historical moment and social location.
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This interdisciplinary course introduces students to historical and theoretical research through a series of topics: Identity, Sex, Violence, Activism, and Beyond. This will form the contexts for exploring issues and questions surrounding lesbian and queer cultures. Books, articles, magazines, videos, films, music, art, and more will be used. What makes up, establishes, creates, develops, organizes lesbian and queer cultures? This will be examined, in the context of various struggles over meanings and identities, considering that those meanings change over time and context and differ across race, class and other identity markers.
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This course focuses on the role of the educational system in the constructions and reproduction of gender and racial inequality. Using both academic and popular literature to gain perspectives, we will examine relationships between school and society. Topics to be addresses include the historical constructions, representation of schooling and the teaching profession, popular culture and education, and sexuality and schooling.
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Women's issues have recently been viewed through the lens of human rights. Increasingly they are inlcuded in the goals, programs and policies of international human rights organizations, from the United Nations to Amnesty International. This course will examine this shift in perspective and the impact it is having on women's lives worldwide. We will explore international human rights as they appply to women. What do we mean by "human rights"? How have these rights been socially defined, struggled over, and, in some cases, won? To what extent have women and women's rights been included in these conversations and struggles?
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