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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Communication Studies M153.) Lecture, four hours. Social scientific study of intersection between mass media and men's aggression against women. Particular consideration of sexual aggression, pornography, and characteristics of aggressive men. Analysis of interaction between "nature and nurture."Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Anthropology M154P.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior women's studies or anthropology courses. Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of women's lives and gender systems in North American cultures from anthropological perspective. Critical review of relevant theoretical and practical issues using ethnography, case study, and presentations. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior women's studies or anthropology courses. Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Comparative study of gender systems globally from anthropological perspective. Outline of material conditions of women's lives in world - genderdivision of labor, relationship of gender to state, and colonialism and resistance movements. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Preparation: introductory sociocultural anthropology course. The anthropology of Japan has long viewed Japan as a homogeneous whole. Restoration of diversity and contradiction in it by listening to voices of Japanese women in various historical contexts. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion, three hours. Recommended preparation: prior women's studies or anthropology courses. Comparative studies of social movements (e.g., nationalist, socialist, liberal/ reform), beginning with Russia and China and including Cuba, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Iran. Analysis of women's participation in social transformations and the centrality of gender interests. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of role of women in Italian society through history, politics, literature, film, and art. Italian majors required to read texts in Italian. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Discussion of theories and research on why pornography exists and its effects. Use of topic to illustrate value of evolutionary theory to social sciences generally. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 10 or Sociology 1. Examination of processes by which gender is socially constructed. Topics include distinction between biological sex and sociological gender, causes and consequences of gender inequality, and recent changes in gender relations in modern industrial societies. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 10 or Sociology 1. Exploration of relationship of gender to work, concentrating on the U.S. experience but also including some comparative material. Particular emphasis on analysis of causes and consequences of job segregation by gender and of wage inequality. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Title refers to intersection between politics and life cycle. Topics include social construction of gender and population, reproductive issues, politicization of mothers, motherhood, and mothering, surrogacy, and new reproductive technologies. Letter grading.
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