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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A critical survey of sex and gender in the production, reception, and content of contemporary popular culture. Possible topics include: television, film, advertising, popular fiction, music, comics, Internet, foodways, and fashion. Themes include: the representation and stylization of sexed and gendered bodies; popular models of sexual and gendered social relations; production of normative and alternative sex and gender identities through media consumption; sex and gender in systems of popular cultural production.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the history of the body from antiquity to modern times using an interdisciplinary approach. By exploring selections from medical texts, literature, fashion, art, accounts of "new world" exploration, legal records, self-help books, and contemporary media representations of human bodies, we consider the changing historical perception of the body. The intersection of gender, race, and class factor significantly in our discussions of how the body has been construed historically and how it is currently being constructed in contemporary American culture. This course also provides an introduction to feminist/gender methodologies that apply to understanding the history of the body. This course is not open to students who have taken WGSS 204. Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level WGSS course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
As a result of recent political upheavals in the Middle East, the Muslim woman, her rights, and her role in the society have been the focus of much attention. Who dictates her dress regulation? Who defines her legal rights? Is she entitled to work? Can she be politically active outside her family? Can she be economically independent? What is her reaction to polygamy? An attempt to look at these and similar questions as addressed by traditional Islam and interpreted in major Muslim countries today.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines the subject of masculinity through a number of themes including history, society, politics, race, gender, sexuality, art, and popular culture. Interdisciplinary readings are drawn from the fields of sociology, anthropology, literature, history, art history and cultural studies. We examine the challenges presented to "masculinity" (and a variety of responses) by the late-20th century emergence of gender studies. Our goal is to come to a working definition of masculinity/ies and gain an understanding of some past, current, and possible future masculine behaviors, mythologies, ideologies, experiences and identities. Previous course work in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies strongly recommended but not required. Attendance mandatory first day in order to reserve your class enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Psych 3091
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3.00 Credits
This course examines issues surrounding women's health care in America. While the scope is broad, the major emphasis is on the 19th and 20th centuries. Through an examination of popular writing, scientific/medical writing, letters, diaries, and fiction, we look at the changing perceptions and conceptions of women's bodies and health in America.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Hum 310
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3.00 Credits
How is gender embedded in the contemporary global economy? In this course, we look at major institutions and circuits of globalization, for the purpose of uncovering masculine principles and privileges, and illuminating women's participation, agency, and resistance. This is slightly different than a traditional "comparative" approach to women's studies. Rather than contrasting women's positions in different societies, we look at the dynamic interrelations of nations with one another. These relations-especially hierarchical ones-are fundamental to and infused with gender, and have impacts upon gender.
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3.00 Credits
Same as IAS 315
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3.00 Credits
We identify and study a broad range of health issues that are either unique to women or of special importance to women. The roles that women play as both providers and consumers of health care in the United States are examined. The interface of gender, race, and class and their impact on an individual's access to and experience in the health care system are central concerns. Topics are wide-ranging and include discussions of breast cancer, mental health, cardiovascular disease in women, women and eating (from anorexia to obesity), reproductive issues (from menstruation to fertility to menopause), as well as the politics of women's health, gender differences in health status, the effect of employment on health, the history of women's health research.
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