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  • WGST 220: Gender and Economic Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    The aim of this course is to provide understanding of the rise and restructuring of the welfare state in post-industrial democracies and the ways in which these have shaped the gender order. We will use general international comparisons, but also focus on special issues. The US minimalist welfare state regime will be compared to European Union member states from a general dimension with the aim of showing the ways in which motherhood and care are organized. Organizational structure, child care, early childhood education and care services, and employment patterns of various countries will be discussed with their corresponding views on the roles of women and men, with some mention of the roles of children.
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  • WGST 235: Women's Health in the 21st Century: Disrupting Assumptions

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This course is an interactive learning experience examining cultural discourse and disrupting our assumptions surrounding women's health practices and healthcare. Utilizing a critical feminist stance, we will purposively explore, disrupt our received cultural understandings, and reconstruct our assumptions, regarding women's health, practices impacting women's health, and healthcare specific to women. We will rely on lively large and small group discussions and multiple learning resources to consider the following: webs of power and societal inequities, the concept of governance in role performance and health, social and cultural discourses, and selected topics regarding topics and issues in women's health and healthcare. Topics include sexuality, fertility, childbirth, women's health in global perspective, and body image, among others. We will analyze our topics through the lenses of class, race, age, and culture. OBJECTIVES: 1.Describe societal and cultural dynamics of governance of role performance that impact women's health and health care practices from a critical feminist perspective. 2.Discuss historical and contemporary understandings of women's bodies and life processes. 3.Analyze interactions between culturally defined women's roles and issues of violence, mental health and other selected health conditions. 4.Identify and critique received cultural and societal values and beliefs regarding women and health. 5.Surface and critique health care systems, issues, and underlying discourse regarding women and health. 6.Develop and demonstrate reflective skills that promote broader feminist perspectives of women and health. Prerequisite:    Permission of Instructor
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  • WGST 250: The Breast: Image, Myth, and Legend

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Feminist historian Marilyn Yalom once wrote that "In the beginning was the breast." Sacred, sensual, sexual, political, and societal, the female breast has been transformed through image, myth, and legend to render multiple meanings from nurture and sustenance to enslaving obsession and civic virtue. The symbolism of the female breast has traversed and been formed by religious, political, and social ideas all of which have been depicted in the arts. Understanding the visual arts as primary evidence in the study of history and reflective of societal perceptions of sexuality and gender, this chronological survey of the breast in Western art and culture reveals the potential lightning rods and miscues in how our 21st-century eyes interpret history and meaning especially with regards to women and gender. Beginning with the Paleolithic mother goddesses whose large breasts signified fertility and lactation, we will examine the multiple meanings in the historical transformations of the image of the female breast from the Christian symbolism of the Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother) to the Renaissance exaltation of female sensuality and the Enlightenment tradition of the republic as woman and political symbol of liberty to the voyeuristic obsessions of 20th-century advertising and entertainment. Core readings will include: John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972) Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast (1997). Margaret R. Miles, A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008). Carolyn Latteier, Breasts: the women's perspective on an American obsession (1998). Secondary readings will include varied (academic and non-academic) journal articles, art exhibition entries/references, and biblical, theological, and literary excerpts.
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  • WGST 260: Violence, Gender and Human Rights

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Anyone entering the thickets of argument relating to violence, gender, and human rights today has to contend with the range and variety of meanings that these concepts have accrued in current usage. While there is broad consensus that there does exist a contemporary crisis around global violence and the suspected gendered aspect of it, how the relationships between globalization and human rights violations, and between violence against women and redefinition of human rights, are to be interpreted, and what is to be done about it is matters of vigorous intellectual and political debate. This class aims to explore the gendered manifestations of violence in public and private spheres within the context of the more general relationship among globalization, development, and human/civil/citizen rights. We will pay attention to banal violence (that is, daily and "banal" violence in everyday life), spectacular violence at moments of crisis, and the type of violence that disrupts the boundary between the two. Special emphases will be given to the issues of racism, sexual exploitation, poverty, labor, health care, homophobia, militarism, and globalization. The readings will include _We Wish to Inform you That Tomorrow We will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda_ by Philip Gourevitch, _A Problem from Hell_ by Samantha Powers, _Violence against Women_ by Stanley French et al., _Are Prisons Obsolete_ by Angela Davis, _The Sterilization of Carrie Buck_ by J. David Smith and K. Ray Nelson, and _Pathologies of Power: Health, Human rights, and the New War on the Poor_ by Paul Farmer. May also be taken as JUPS 260-01
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  • WGST 266: Women and American Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    The focus of this course is to examine the role of women in American politics and the participation of women in the electoral process as voters, elected and appointed officials, strategists and party leaders. Topics of discussion will include early pioneers in American politics; Making waves: Running for President; 1922: The Year of the Woman; women's issues in national and statewide campaigns; the women's vote; race, class and gender; women activists and women voters; women as candidates, women as campaign officials: limited seats at the table; the future of American women in politics; and women and media coverage. Throughout this course, the professor will bring in guest speakers and leaders from the world of politics, journalism, and non-profit organizations. Objectives for students include: discuss contemporary issues of gender in American politics; interview a female elected or appointed official to analyze the role of gender in their decision to pursue a career in public policy; analyze emerging issues facing women political activists, as well as women candidates and women voters. Fall and Spring.
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  • WGST 320: Sexual Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    "Sex" and "politics," as we typically understand them, appear to have little to do with each other. In this course, however, we will explore their connections in a global context. Sexuality is a site of social control --for instance by states, religions, families, and the media-- but it is also mobilized by women, youths, gender nonconformists, and queers across the world in ways that resist social control. Our goal is to explore how sexuality and power inter-relate, and to make sense of sexual control as well as creative struggles for sexual expression. Debates over state regulation of sexuality, sexual identity, youth sexuality, pornography, sex work, sexual consumption and lifestyles, sexual violence, sexuality in public and political life, and the global sex trade are central to this course. We also explore how marginalized sexual groups produce political change and how sexual power and perception are affected by issues such as racism, culture and religion. Finally, we will examine how sexuality directly plays a role in political power and the limitations of sexual politics that are based on Western constructs of sexual identity. Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None
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