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WOMGEN 1226: Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and U.S. Latino Culture
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Focuses on 20th-century narrative fiction, testimony, and film by or about women and non-heteronormative men from a variety of linguistic cultures (French, Spanish, Creole, Maya-Quiche, English, Portuguese), paying special attention the ties and tensions between feminism, queer theory, and post-colonialism. Other topics include gender and genre; sexuality and the state; social engagement and artistic autonomy; nationality, nationalism, and internationalism; class conflict and the global market; family formations and kinship; ritual and religion; homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism; authoritarianism and democracy
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WOMGEN 1231: American Social Body
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course explores the ways in which the body is shaped in American culture. What social and cultural meanings do we attach to certain bodies? How do social systems of inequality, such as racism, sexism, ableism and classism influence how we see bodies? Topics to include dieting and fitness, body image and "the beauty myth," fashion and plastic surgery.
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WOMGEN 1238: Consuming Passions
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Course explores how sexuality and desire frame experiences of consumption historically, and how unequal distributions of global power influence the relationship between producers of globally marketed goods and services and those who consume them. Topics include sex tourism, migrant domestic labor, international adoption and surrogacy, and the commercialization of same-sex desire.
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WOMGEN 1242: Masculinities
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
From politics, to professional sports, to action films, ideas of "what makes a man" are ever-present. This course introduces students to ideas of masculinity in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability, socio-economic class, and religion. Questions include: Why are certain mannerisms, activities, professions, and even objects considered masculine? How have ideas of masculinity changed over time and in relation to various debates around health, morality, and the family?
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WOMGEN 1245: Virgins, Vamps, and Camp: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Hollywood Cinema
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
From the 1930s-1960s, the Hollywood studio system dominated cinema worldwide and with it images of and discourse on sex, gender, and sexuality. Through critical analysis of classics such as Gilda, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Johnny Guitar, Morocco, Pillow Talk, and Psycho, we will investigate Hollywood's role in constructing, negotiating, and occasionally transgressing norms of identity, behavior, and desire. Taught from a cinema/cultural studies perspective, and incorporating topics and texts integral to feminist and queer film theory.
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WOMGEN 1300: Approaches to Research and Writing in WGS
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
The objective of the course is to provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge, engage feminist epistemologies, and employ feminist methodologies in working on a research project over the course of the semester in each student's area of interest.
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WOMGEN 1409: Transsexuality, Transgenderism, and the Rest
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course will cover narrative, anthropological, historical, scientific, and theoretical texts (including films) about transexuality and transgenderism. The course will begin with transexuality before and beyond identity politics and its transformation in the light/shadow of identity politics and theories of gender; it will consider these issues initially in a Euro-American context, but also move onto other socio-cultural formations and consider how trans-subjectivities as well as histories and politics of transexuality and transgenderism have been formed transnationally.
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WOMGEN 1411: Native American Cultures: Studies in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course examines issues of gender, sex, and sexuality in various Native American cultures in a historical, anthropological, and political context. We will explore sex roles, marriage and the family, and gender variant identities, as well as the massive impact of colonialization, racism, and missionary activity on gendered understandings in present-day American cultures.
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WOMGEN 1421: Medical Management of the Female Body
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course examines how Western medical knowledge, practices, and institutions define female health and normality and manage diseased and gender-variant female bodies. How, for instance, does medicine conceive of the female body as a medical problem or mystery and how do race, class, and sexuality inflect these conceptions? Topics include: "female maladies," medicalization of childbirth and the pregnant body, medical management of transgender and intersexed bodies, ideals of fitness, cosmetic surgery, disability, and pharmaceutical marketing.
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WOMGEN 1500: The Working World: Contemporary Problems in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This capstone seminar allows advanced students to synthesize previous semesters of study while looking ahead to their working lives after graduation. The course will examine the evolution of feminist scholarship on work broadly defined, and students will independently investigate a contemporary problem of the "working world." Topics will include "masculine" and "feminine" occupations, care work and housework, gender and sexual identity in the workplace, sexual harassment, sex work, labor activism, and the politics of welfare.
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