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4.00 Credits
Covers significant pre-Holocaust texts (including Yiddish fiction in translation) by U.S. Ashkenazi women and analyzes the tensions between upholding Jewish identity and the necessity and/or inevitability of integration and assimilation. It also examines women's quests to realize their full potential in Jewish and non-Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic. - I. Klepfisz General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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Examines the memoirs and fiction by American Jewish Women writers from 1939 to the present, with a focus on the relationships between Jewish identity, post-Holocaust consciousness, gender, and class. Writers to be studied include Lucy Dawidowicz, Jo Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Eva Hoffman, Grace Paley, Helen Epstein, Pearl Abraham, Judith Katz, and Elana Dykewomon. - I. Klepfisz Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Study of the role of gender in economic structures and social processes comprising globalization and in political practices of contemporary U.S. empire. This seminar focuses on the ways in which transformations in global political and economic structures over the last few decades including recent political developments in the U.S. have been shaped by gender, race, sexuality, religion and social movements. - N. Tadiar Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of feminist approaches to HIV/AIDS with emphasis on the nexus of science and social justice. - R. Young Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines important concerns, concepts and methodological approaches of postcolonial theory, with a focus on feminist perspectives on and strategies for the decolonization of Eurocentric knowledge-formations and practices of Western colonialism. Topics for discussion and study include orientalism, colonialism, nationalism and gender, the politics of cultural representations, subjectivity and subalternity, history, religion, and contemporary global relations of domination. - N. Tadiar Prerequisites: Enrollment limted to 20 students. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Explores how sexuality is defined and contested in various domains of law (Constitutional, Federal, State), how scientific theories intersect with legal discourse, and takes up considerations of these issues in family law, the military, questions of speech, citizenship rights, and at the workplace. - P. Ettelbrick Prerequisites: Application essay required. Please email sortiz@barnard.edu to ask for further instructions. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines scientific research on human sexuality, from early sexology through contemporary studies of biology and sexual orientation, surveys of sexual behavior, and the development and testing of Viagra. How does such research incorporate, reflect, and reshape cultural ideas about sexuality How is it useful, and for whom - R. Young 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Sex, sexual identity, and the body are produced in and through time. "Trans" - as an identity, a set of practices, a question, a site, or as a verb of change and connection - is a relatively new term which this course will situate in theory, time, discipline, and through the study of representation. - P. Currah Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Identifies trends in Jewish American women's writing of this period: integration of Jewish and feminist consciousness into Jewish women's mainstream writing; exploration through fictive narratives of women's roles in Jewish orthodox communities; recording of experiences of immigrants from the former Soviet Union and from Arab countries. - I. Klepfisz Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Sophomore standing. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
An investigation into the central issues of queer studies. Themes include the historical, methodological, and epistemological crisis points of thinking sexuality trans-historically and cross-culturally; relations among gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation; how queer subjects are formed in relation to major institutions and how queer psychic life is inhabited; sexuality, colonialism, imperialism, migration and diaspora; and transsexual life and culture. - G. Pflugfelder 4 points
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