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1.00 Credits
This course explores issues of sex, gender, and power for women and men in our society and in selected cultures of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Pacific. Issues to be explored include: the cultural construction of deviance, women's and men's freedom to be sexual, reproductive rights, divorce and marriage, homosexuality, ritualized genital mutilation, the relationship between sexuality and social roles. By creating "maps" of the sex/gender systems of some exotically different societies, the course encourages a reflexive analysis of our own. Enrollment limited. Counts toward the Anthropology Department majo 1.00 units, Lecture
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The 20th century is generally understood as a crucial period for the emergence and consolidation of modern lesbian and gay identities and practices. A case can be made for the special role of Hollywood in this historical process. Stars such as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Cliff provided lesbians and gays with powerful models of gender and sexual nonconformity, and Hollywood genres such as the musical and the domestic melodrama informed the camp sensibility in crucial ways. Beginning with the 1930s and ending with the 1990s, this course examines how Hollywood contributed to the formation of lesbian and gay subcultures. It pays particular attention to the representation of lesbians and gays in Hollywood films and how this representation did and did not shift over the course of the 20th century. In addition, it engages recent theoretical and historical work on gender and sexuality. Mandatory weekly screenings. (Also listed under English.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Sexuality is commonly understood as a natural or biological instinct, but as scholars have recently shown, it is better understood as a set of cultural practices that have a history. Starting with the ancient Greeks, this course examines the culturally and historically variable meanings attached to sexuality in Western culture. It pays particular attention to the emergence of sexuality in the 19th century as an instrument of power. It also considers how race, class, gender, and nationality have influenced the modern organization of sexuality. Topics covered include sex before sexuality, sexuality and colonialism, sexuality and U.S. slavery, and the emergence of the hetero/homosexual binarism in the late 19th century. Primary readings include The Symposium, A Passage to India, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Well of Loneliness, and The Swimming Pool Library. Secondary readings include work by Michel Foucault, David Halperin, Angela Davis, Hazel Carby, Martin Duberman, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy. (Also listed under History.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Drinking as an institution has reflected the varieties of cultures, interest groups, and ideologies that have swept America. We will examine the tumultuous history of this institution from the origins of the Republic to the present in order to understand what the 'wets' and the 'drys' can tell us about the nature of community in America. Special attention to the ways in which gender, race, class, and ethnicity shape perceptions of drinking, leisure, and social control. (Also listed under American Studies and History 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Lee Krasner's abstract expressionist painting was praised as ".so good you would not know it was painted by a woman"; Mary McCarthy's best-selling novel The Group was condemned as a "lady book." Such were the terms governing the critical reception of women's art during the Cold War era of the 1950's and early 1960's. This course explores the art practices of six American women (playwrights Lillian Hellman and Lorraine Hansberry, novelist Mary McCarthy, poet/novelist Sylvia Plath, choreographer Martha Graham, and painter Lee Krasner) who achieved prominence in their respective fields while negotiating a "containment culture" that equated women's fulfillment with domestic bliss and promoted norms of womanhood that served to regulate female sexuality, labor, and representation. Course readings and discussions will situate the art of each of these figures against the backdrop of Cold War culture and will encourage students to critically examine the intersection between individual biography, art production, and socio-politi 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
What is gender equity in schooling and what impact does this have on gender equity more broadly Different disciplinary perspectives on the impact of gender in learning, school experience, performance and achievement will be explored in elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and informal educational settings. The legal and public policy implications of these findings (such as gender-segregated schooling, men's and women's studies programs, curriculum reform, Title IX, affirmative action and other proposed remedies) will be explored. Findings on socialization and schooling in the U.S. will be contrasted with those from other cultures. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course provides an introduction to the new field of feminist economics, which through a diverse set of questions and analysis critiques conventional economic theories, analyzes the economics of gender difference, and advocates policies that promote equality for women. Empirical, methodological, theoretical, and policy questions will be explored. For example, has the economic position of women been improving in the U.S. and in the world Do existing economic theories embody a masculine perspective How can economists better understand housework and childcare, and women's predominance in them What is a feminist analysis of welfare What insights does feminism provide for development economics And finally what might women's liberation mean, in economic terms Prerequisite: C- or better in Economics 101. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The plight of women raped in Bosnia, women and children in Afghan refugee of camps, homeless mothers and sweatshop workers in the USA, or Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong, as well as the boy soldiers of Africa, reflect the gendered nature of modern upheavals across the globe. This course examines the gendered consequences of contemporary forms of uprootedness, such as homelessness, labor migration, and refugee flight, and the impact of these on family and intergenerational relations, cultural expression and identity, relationships to home place and culture, and forms of multicultural citizenship. Students will use case studies, ethnographies, and other accounts to consider the conditions, such as environmental disasters, economic restructuring, genocide, violence, and political oppression, which give rise to dislocation and the gender differences in the reconstitution of self and community among individual migrants and survivors of trauma. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the growing theoretical literature and case law in the area of sexual orientation and the law. We will study the historical treatment of gays and lesbians as a matter of law and public policy, and we will examine the particular discriminatory laws that have been enacted at the local, state, and national level. Texts will include books on a variety of policy issues concerning the legal status of gays and lesbians, as well as court cases, legal briefs, and law review articles. Topics will range from same-sex marriages to discrimination against individuals infected with the HIV virus. Prerequisite: Women Gender and Sexuality 101 or 212 or Public Policy 201 or 202 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course examines how the social, cultural and political aspect of sports helps inform our understanding of gender and vice versa. Issues we will consider include the prevailing notions of women's physical and mental abilities and consciousness regarding sports; the role that sports play in transmitting values, and whether sports, or specific sports, contribute to gender-role stereotypes. Focusing on important women such as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Nancy Lopez, Althea Gibson , Fanny Blankers Koen, Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Nancy Greene, Marilyn Bell, who made sports history in golf, tennis, track and field, skiing, and swimming, respectively, we will consider the historical, political, socioeconomic, and physical factors which supported and/or impeded these women's lives and careers and how these factors informed and were informed by society as a whole. 1.00 units, Lecture
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