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4.00 Credits
This course explores in depth the historical, political, social, and emotional nature of relationships between Black women and White women in America. Societal constructions of race and gender, along with the constant interplay of class, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of difference will be identified, as will key themes and defining tensions and points of connections in women's cross race relations. The course aims to improve understanding of the history between African American and European American women, to gain awareness of the political tensions stemming from with Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, to gain understanding of the shared and varying beauty concerns of Black women and White women in this culture, and to develop strategies for improving communication and cooperation between women of varying racial identities.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the qualitative research methodology of life narratives: conducting and transcribing interviews, developing narratives, and choosing methods of presentation and preservation. Students will collaborate with a specific grassroots community group that seeks to give voice to its members' experiences as they struggle with particular issues and perspectives concerning the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion. As students critically analyze these experiences and examine them through different disciplines and transnational readings, they will participate with members to develop empowerment strategies. By the acquisition of knowledge and skills concerning life narrative research, students in this course will be encouraged to explore ways that they and local groups can create their own community and come to common understanding about critical issues. This course affords students opportunities to experience direct links between academic scholarship, community activism, and social justice.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores issues of gender equity in Scotland today and their relation to the gender and human rights policy agenda of the United Nations. While in Chicago students will examine theoretical models upon which the Scottish gender equity agenda is based, and then travel to Scotland, where students will witness first hand the realities and experiences of institutionalizing those mechanisms. The course offers students experiential learning opportunities as they meet key players in Scots academic and policy communities who have been integrally involved in Gender Equity Initiatives
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the gendered history of knitting and its contemporary popularity as both a creative leisure-time activity and a means of providing community service. The social history and social construction of a gendered division of labor surrounding knitting, with its complexities, provide the theoretical foundation of the course. Students will learn the basic techniques of knitting and will be expected to practice their new skills in- and out-side of the classroom. They will reach a level of proficiency sufficient to producing a minimum of three contributions to service knitting projects.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to offer a critical examination of black women's experiences and thought within a global and transnational framework. The course examines works by and about black women in diverse social, political, and geographical contexts: the continent of Africa, Western Europe, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Australia. Topics to be explored will include issues of politics and ideology; power and inequality based on intersectionality of race and other dimension of identity; agency, activism, and social movements; the mass media, popular culture and social policies.
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4.00 Credits
What does the future hold for humankind on this planet and elsewhere What will life be like in the not too distant as well as far distant futures How will societies be organized What kinds of cultural milieus will shape life and living How will identities be articulated and negotiated Who will govern Who will be in resistance Who will be present and who will be absent How will things come to be These questions will form the core of our study of a genre devoted to social commentary, envisioning vastly different ideas about the future, emergent from 20th century works.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary. This course is designed to address issues related to the particular experiences of women in the Black Diaspora. Topics will vary in terms of their particular focus in addressing issues that are important to understanding Black women's experiences in a US context and globally-making interconnections to the experiences of women of other ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. The course will provide occasions for students to study and examine issues such as Black women's cultural criticism, Black women in the arts, engagement in activism and social and political movements --literature and the media.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an interdisciplinary experiential/service learning seminar in which students will participate in, and critically reflect upon, a relationship violence prevention program in Chicago area high schools. This class will explore adolescent development, considering the ways in which economic, social, political and cultural contexts influence that development. In addition, we will focus on adolescent relationships, group work with teens, aggression and violence in intimate -- in particular teen -- relationships, and evaluation of programs to prevent teen violence. Each week students will address a set of theoretical and/or practical themes that in some way relate to teen violence and aggression, as well as prevention of such violence. Discussions of each theme will draw on course readings, lecture materials, and perhaps most importantly, students' experiences working with teens in schools. Registration for this course will be by permission of instructor only.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines some of the central texts of queer theory in order to contextualize and historicize the notion of homosexuality as a primary category of identity. The issue of sexual normativity as it relates to gay and lesbian assimilation will also be discussed. Because of the significant relationship of gender and sexuality, we will also examine theories of embodiment and take up the debates around the politics of intersex and transgender identities.
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4.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the experiences of women around the world in diverse social contexts, examined through different disciplines, with a special emphasis on economics, politics and culture. Focus is on African, Asian and Latin American cultures and nondominant groups within western societies. PREREQUISTE(S):WMS 200, one WMS course and either junior/senior standing or permission of Women's Studies Director required. (Cross-listed as WMS 490 and MLS 441)
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