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  • WGS 236J: East Asian Culture: From Zen to Pop

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines traditional forms of East Asian culture (including literature, art, performance, food, and religion) as well as contemporary forms of popular culture (film, pop music, karaoke, and manga). Covers China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with an emphasis on China. Considers women's culture, as well as the influence and presence of Asian cultural expressions in the US. Uses resources in the Boston area, including the MFA, the Children's Museum, and the Sackler collection at Harvard. Taught in English. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 237J: Race and Gender in Asian America

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Interdisciplinary examination of the intersection of race, gender, and class in Asian American culture from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics include media images of Asian American men and women, feminism and gender roles, women and labor issues, transnational migration, and interracial marriage. Writers may include Maxine Hong Kingston, Eric Liu, Chang-rae Lee, Jessica Hagedorn, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Filmmakers may include Mira Nair, Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, and Gurinder Chadha. Taught in English. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 240J: Jane Austen

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    An examination of Jane Austen's satire in her seven complete novels, several fragments, and juvenilia. Students read these texts in relation to her letters and other biographical and historical information. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite:    Prereq: One subject in Literature
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  • WGS 270J: Violence, Human Rights, and Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    An examination of the problem of mass violence and oppression in the contemporary world, and of the concept of human rights as a defense against such abuse. Explores questions of cultural relativism, race, gender and ethnicity. Examines case studies from war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, anti-terrorist policies and other judicial attempts to redress state-sponsored wrongs. Considers whether the human rights framework effectively promotes the rule of law in modern societies. Students debate moral positions and address ideas of moral relativism. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 271J: Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    An introduction to the cross-cultural study of biomedical ethics. Examines moral foundations of the science and practice of western biomedicine through case studies of abortion, contraception, cloning, organ transplantation and other issues. Evaluates challenges that new medical technologies pose to the practice and availability of medical services around the globe, and to cross-cultural ideas of kinship and personhood. Discusses critiques of the biomedical tradition from anthropological, feminist, legal, religious, and cross-cultural theorists. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 274J: Gender and Representation of Asian Women

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Explores some of the forces and mechanisms through which stereotypes are built and perpetuated. In particular, examines stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and global/diasporic narratives about gender and power. Students read ethnography, fiction, and history, and view films to examine the politics and circumstances that create and perpetuate the representation of Asian women as dragon ladies, lotus blossoms, despotic tyrants, desexualized servants, and docile subordinates. Students are introduced to debates about Orientalism, gender, and power. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 276J: Cultures of Computing

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices that create them. Students read classic texts in computer science along with cultural analyses of computing history and contemporary configurations. Explores the history of automata, automation and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; robots, cyborgs, and artificial life; creation and commoditization of the personal computer; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; hackers and gamers; technobodies and virtual sociality. Emphasis is placed on how ideas about gender and other social differences shape labor practices, models of cognition, hacking culture, and social media. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 291J: Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines forms, content, and contexts of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in shaping American concert dance, with attention to issues of gender and autobiography. Explores artistic lives of dance artists Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and George Balanchine as American dance innovators. Lectures and discussions analyze these artists' works, taking into consideration historical and political contexts. Viewing assignments and attendance of Boston-area dance performances help students identify visual, musical, and kinesthetic underpinnings of choreographic structure. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 301J: Feminist Political Thought

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Analyzes theories of gender and politics, especially ideologies of gender and their construction; definitions of public and private spheres; gender issues in citizenship, the development of the welfare state, experiences of war and revolution, class formation, and the politics of sexuality. Graduate students are expected to pursue the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • WGS 400: WGS Undergraduate Independent Study

    0.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Individual supervised work for undergraduate students who wish to study topics not covered in the regular Women's and Gender Studies curriculum. Before registering for this subject, students must plan a course of study with a member of the WGS faculty and secure the Director's approval. Normal maximum credit is 6 units, but exceptional 9-unit projects occasionally approved. Prerequisite:    Prereq: Permission of instructor
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