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An exploration of the main currents in American feminism, with occasional excursions into European thought. The course readings assume (rather than demonstrate) women's historical subordination to man and put forward various explanations and strategies for change. Readings in J.S. Mill, C. P. Gilman, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, bell hooks, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde, and others. Primarily for sophomores and juniors. Permission of the instructor is required. Prerequisite: C- or better in one other course in Women Gender and Sexuality. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course is a cross-cultural investigation of the gendered nature of human rights and of the changes in different societies that have resulted from struggles for human rights for women. Topics covered will include rights to protection against sexual abuse and gender violence (such as female genital mutilation), subsistence rights, reproductive rights, human rights and sexual orientation, and the rights of female immigrants and refugees. The course will make use of formal legal documents as well as cultural materials such as novels, films, personal testimonies, religious rituals, and folk traditions in music. (Also listed under Public Policy.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course provides an introduction to women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America from an interdisciplinary as well as cross-cultural and cross-national perspective. It examines patterns of women's subordination in the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial context. Particular attention is paid to the role of women in economic development. This involves looking at women's involvement in various activities, from the individual household unit to women's role in agricultural production and the emerging global assembly line. Prerequisite: Political Science 106 and Anthropology 201, or permission of the instructor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An examination of women's varied experiences in the public and private spheres, from their own perspective as well as that of the dominant society. The experiences of women of different classes and races will be compared, as will the relationship between images of women and changing realities of their lives. Emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores popular fictional representations of black women's lives in television, music and film, as well as non-fictional narratives in the mainstream and alternative news media. Our objective is to find patterns and gaps in such representations, and to better understand the ways in which the actual, lived "realities" of black women's lives are either silenced, distorted, or perhaps, successfully honored in such cultural productions. Particularly strong emphasis will be placed on the project of bringing feminist thought and practice to newspaper and magazine journalism. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course looks at the increasing integration of societies and cultures around the world and its effects on women and gender. In addition to examining the increasing integration of economies, this class will consider globalization from the perspective of the movement and integration of people, ideas and things, balancing cultural and political factors with economics. We will consider the advantages and disadvantages of globalization as experienced by people, especially women, across the globe, and examine in turn, how globalization affects the social construction of gender and how women and their activities are giving shape and meaning to this phenomenon. Prerequisite: C- or better in at least one course in either Anthropology, Economics, International Studies, or Women Gender and Sexuality. 1.00 units, Lecture
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We will read works by Caroline Kirkland, Rebecca Harding Davis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Henry James, and William Dean Howells, asking what is real What does it mean to be a realist How was realism as a literary movement constructed by male critics in gendered opposition to sentimentalism 1.00 units, Lecture
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This multidisciplinary seminar explores gender relations in the unique multicultural setting of Trinidad and Tobago. Variations in gender and sexuality will be examined through a discussion of history, political economy, family life, religion, race and class, and the cultural politics of national identity, with particular attention given to Afro-, Hindu-, and Muslim-Trinbagonian experiences. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Images such as the lazy, irresponsible and sexually promiscuous "welfare queen" or the welfare-abusing "illegal" immigrant dominate contemporary U.S. political discourse about poverty. Not only do these images work to criminalize women of color, but they locate the origins of economic inequality in the cultural behaviors of the poor themselves. This course traces the historical emergence and development of these images of a "culture of poverty" in order to analyze how interlocking structures of race, gender, sexuality and capitalism have shaped social science approaches to poverty in the U.S. In particular, the course draws on historical analysis, political theory, and cultural studies to examine how contemporary understandings of poverty, deservingness, citizenship rights and obligations, and U.S. national identity gain their meaning through discourses of race, gender and sexuality. Specific issues we will consider include but are not limited to globalization, immigration and the feminization of poverty; recent changes in U.S. welfare policy; reproductive rights and population control; and women of color and the criminal justice sy 1.00 units, Seminar
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