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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 1950s and early 1960s. This course will explore the art practice 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 regulating female sexuality, labor and representation. Course material will include: McCarthy's The Group, Plath's The Bell Jar, Hellman's Scoundrel Time, Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun, Graham's Night Journey, and selected paintings by Krasner. In addition, students will read passages from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, selections from Freud, and historical accounts of the politics and culture of the 1.00 units, Lecture
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This broadly interdisciplinary course examines the impact of queer theory on the study of gender and sexuality in both the humanities and the social sciences. In positing that there is no necessary or causal relationship between sex, gender, and sexuality, queer theory has raised important questions about the identity-based understandings of gender and sexuality still dominant in the social sciences. This course focuses on the issues queer theory has raised in the social sciences as its influence has spread beyond the humanities. Topics covered include: queer theory's critique of identity; institutional versus discursive forms of power in the regulation of gender and sexuality; the value of psychoanalysis for the study of sexuality; and lesbian and gay historiography versus queer historiography. 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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The past decade has witnessed a flowering of cultural production from young black women. This course locates contemporary black transnational women writers and filmmakers-from the 1990's into the present-within a larger tradition of black women's literary and cultural production and black feminist thought. We will consider issues of race, gender, sexuality, cultural trauma, subjectivity and aesthetics from the post-Civil Rights and postcolonial context in which these contemporary works of fiction arise. Our primary goal is to examine the ways in which these contemporary black women writers revise and diverge from the political and aesthetic concerns of their predecessors. We will read texts from the US, the Caribbean and West Africa in order to engage the possibilities and limitations of theorizing from a black transnational frame of reference. Seating for this class will be limited to 20 student 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment. 1.00 units min / 2.00 units max, Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
The goals of this seminar are to sharpen critical thinking and to afford an opportunity for synthesis of student work in women, gender, and sexuality. Towards these ends we will examine the construction of race, class, and sexuality in America as they intersect with gender. The capstone of the course is a twenty-five-page research paper. There will be opportunities to share work in progress with seminar members and to involve the wider campus community in the issues. Course open only to senior Women Gender and Sexuality majors and minors. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will explore selected issues and controversies in American feminist legal theory and will emphasize the development of its theoretical foundations. We will examine how and why legal theory has become one of the most vital areas for the emergence of a distinctly feminist critical approach to questions of the relationship between law, gender and society. In readings and class discussions we will study and evaluate the ways in which feminists have attempted to redefine legal problems and have applied legal analysis to sex and gender issues. Topics will include: feminist critiques of the liberal law; sex and gender equality; sex discrimination; affirmative action; abortion; pornography; and sexual harassment. Authors we will read include Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Deborah Rhode, Mary Jo Frug, Patricia Williams, Kimberle Crenshaw, Robin West, and Zellah Eisenstein. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will explore selected issues and controversies concerning gender, sexuality, and the law in America. We will examine the issues from a variety of legal perspectives and will focus on the social and political circumstances that have given rise to them. We will also analyze the relationship between the ongoing litigation of gender questions and the shaping of public policy. Topics to be discussed include sexual harassment, pornography, assisted reproduction, and gay and lesbian marriage. 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.50 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment. 0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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