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  • WGST 405: Gender Roles

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course will investigate the development of sex roles in childhood and adolescence due to either innate physiological differences or sociological patterning, the effect of sex roles upon male-female relationships within our society and the possibility of transcending sociological sex roles in alternate modes of living. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 405 and WGST 505.
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  • WGST 406: Culture and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    The study of women, men, children, socialization practices and the genesis of sex roles cross-culturally. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 405 and WGST 406.
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  • WGST 407: Sexual Praxis and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course will offer an overview of sexual differences including: the socio-cultural construction of gender, sexual behavior and orientation; sex and sexualities in language and literature; and diversity by race, class and cultural heritage. These topics will enable students to understand human sexuality within and across a continuum removing notions of duality or polarity, in sexual behaviors and orientations. Examples both from within Western society and from non-Western societies may be used to further this position. Theoretical perspectives may encompass sociological and anthropological work, literary theory and criticism, queer theory, and multi-disciplinary discussions/discourse. Texts may include: Sex and the Machine; Readings in Culture; Gender and Technology; The Anatomy of Love; The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transexuality, and Lesbian and Gay Marriage.
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  • WGST 408: Gender, Pwr & Intl Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course provides an overview of gender issues in development in the global South, including the differential effects of development policies on women and men, and the role of social movements in transforming development policy frameworks. Students may not receive credit for both WGST 408 and 508. For graduate credit, students should elect WGST 508.
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  • WGST 409: Feminist Theories

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course examines the different perspectives that feminist theorists have offered to analyze the unequal conditions of women's and men's lives. Students taking this course will develop an understanding of how theory functions as a way to know, understand and change the world. They will also be provided with a lens for comparing the assumptions and implications of alternative theoretical perspectives. A particular emphasis of this course is on theorizing the interrelationships among gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality. Course material includes applications of feminist theory to issues such as gender identity formation; sexuality; gender, law and citizenship; women and work; and the history and politics of social movements. Students will not receive credit for both WGST 409 and WGST 509. (AY )
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  • WGST 412: Men and Masculinity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course addresses the question, "What is a man?" in various historical, cross-cultural and contemporary contexts. A major focus is on the social and cultural factors that underlie and shape conceptions of manhood and masculinity in America as well as in a variety of societies around the globe.
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  • WGST 416: Earl Mod Jpn Paint&Wood Prnts

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    Painting and woodblock prints of the Edo/Tokugawa (1600-1868) and Mei II (1868-1912) periods are considered in light of competing developments that on the one hand looked to Japan's classical tradition and on the other to the influence of art and artists from China and from the West. Special attention is given to female artists and images of women. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 416 and WGST 516.
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  • WGST 420: Kinship and Marriage

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    A study of the diversity of kinship and marriage systems, and of the history of kinship theory which has played a seminal role in the development of general anthropological history. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 420 and WGST 520.
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  • WGST 425: Women in Classical Antiquity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course examines the evidence for the lives of women in Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquity, from the Bronze Age through the Imperial Period. Special emphasis will be placed on the archaeological evidence, especially works of art which illustrate women's lives and their relationships with men. Documents such as dedicatory and funerary inscriptions, the poetry of Sappho and Sulpicia, and selections from the writings of Homer, Hesiod, Aristotle, Pliny, Juvenal, and other ancient authors, will also be examined critically, particularly in relationship to the works of art.
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  • WGST 433: Writing Women In Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Dearborn

    This course will be taught in English, and will focus on the influence of Italian literary models for the construction of female literary types as well as female voices in France and Italy from 1300 to about 1600. Italian authors studied include three very influential Florentines, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, as well as Castiglione and Asiosto. We will read women poets, patrons, prostitutes and queens from Italy and France such as Veronica Gambara, Isabella di Morra, Vittoria Colonna, Christine de Pizan, Louise Labe and Marguerite de Navarre. At issue will be women's roles and women's images in city and court culture during the early modern period and the interaction of their writings with the literary canons of Italy and France.
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