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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary course on the female labor force today. Changing conditions of women's work in service, production, clerical, craft and professional employment. Mutual influences of social policy, family life and economic institutions on women's work experience. Possible future for women workers; strategies for their realization in light of current theories.
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Social and historical processes through which work is organized and allocated on basis of gender; relationship of these processes to changes in world economy. Growth in women's poverty and struggles of women in paid and unpaid labor force.
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3.00 Credits
Political, social and economic roles of women in Latin America. Examines the experience of women in the rural, urban, mining, industrial, service and informal sectors, and women's survival under military dictatorships, colonialism and neocolonialism.
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3.00 Credits
The various roles assigned to women in a broad range of "courtly," religious and realistic texts, including those written by women (such as Marie de France, Christine de Pisan, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Kempe) as well as those written by the "standard" authors of the period (such as Dante, Chretien, Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet).
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Supreme Court opinions dealing with environmental law, consumer rights, communications, elections, citizenship, immigration, nationality; strategies and tactics used to change judicial policies in these and other areas of civil rights and liberties. Prerequisites: PLSC 331.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the causes for which women are arrested and incarcerated in local jails, state and federal institutions, immigration facilities, concentration camps and juvenile detention centers. Also examines the types of offenses for which women are arrested, the punishment they receive and the treatment they face once institutionalized. Attention is given to how women respond to the conditions of incarceration. WOMNá380E
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3.00 Credits
Selected works by 20th-century women writers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Colette, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich. Fiction, poetry and some theoretical discussion.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine whether our system of laws treats women in a gender-specific way and how this category of "gender" is affected by or influences those of race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation. The course will also ask whether recent theories in feminist jurisprudence provide an analytical framework to examine a range of legal issues and, in so doing, suggest alternative means for "doing law." The legal issues that will be considered will focus on those laws that affect women's political, economic and personal choices.
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3.00 Credits
Topics vary. Advanced examination of formations, representations or analyses of race, gender and sexuality, and class, with attention to the critique of whiteness.
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3.00 Credits
Topics vary. Advanced examination of engagements with colonialisms, anti-colonial struggles, post-colonialities and the relationship of the "First" and "Third" Worlds as these articulate with gender.
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