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3.00 Credits
The study of women, men, children, socialization practices and the genesis of sex roles cross-culturally. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version WGST 406. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 406 and WGST 506.
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3.00 Credits
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 of Narratives of Transexuality, and Lesbian and Gay Marriage.
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3.00 Credits
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. Additional assignments will distinguish this course from its undergraduate counterpart (WGST 408).
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3.00 Credits
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. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version.
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3.00 Credits
Painting and woodblock prints of the Edo/Tokugawa (1600-1868) and Meiji 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 arts and artists from China and the West. Special attention is given to female artists and images of women.
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3.00 Credits
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. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinquish this course from its undergraduate version WGST 420. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 420 and WGST 520.
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3.00 Credits
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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3.00 Credits
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 Ariosto. 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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3.00 Credits
An analysis of images and problems of women as defined by significant British and American women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Style and narrative techniques will also be closely examined. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 445 and WGST 545.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological analysis of problems encountered within the institution of marriage with particular reference to such issues as choosing a marriage partner, sexual adjustment, occupational involvement, conflict resolution, child rearing, divorce and readjustment. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 446 and WGST 546. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version.
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