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3.00 Credits
Same as Chinese 382
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3.00 Credits
Same as History 38A8
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between female sexuality and its social, historical, and ideological contexts. Course materials provide feminist analyses of the changing social organization and cultural meaning of women's bodies, sexual desires, and sexual practices. Prerequisite: WGSS 100B, WGSS 105, or permission from the instructor. Preference to those who have taken WGSS 395, WGSS majors and minors, seniors, juniors.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines feminist epistemologies and research methods. We ask how gender theory and feminist politics shape the kinds of research questions we ask, the types of materials we use, and how we define our relationships with our subjects. We study how feminist scholars have challenged dominant theories of knowledge and the major methodologies employed in their disciplines. Students explore research methods from the social sciences and humanities (interviews, life histories, participation observation, textual analysis) and engage feminist critiques and evaluation of such methods. The course requires commitment to a research project to be completed in stages over the course of the semester. Prerequisite: at least one WGSS course at the 100 or 200 level.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the issue of violence against women within families, by strangers in the workplace, and within the context of international and domestic political activity. In each area, issues of race, class, culture, and sexuality are examined as well as legal, medical, and sociological responses. Readings cover current statistical data, research, and theory as well as information on the history of the battered women's movement, the rape crisis center movement, violent repression of women's political expressions internationally, and the effect of violence on immigrant and indigenous women in the United States and abroad. Not open to students who have taken (UCollege) WGSS 363.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the sometimes vexed relationship between the theory and the practice of women's studies. Students in the course, who must also enroll in the service companion course (WGSS 3941), participate in service work while taking the course. In class, we discuss and write about the history of women and voluntarism, the ethical challenges of service work, the ongoing affinity between community service and female citizenship, as well as how students' particular experiences challenge or confirm theoretical discussions in women's studies. Because this is a writing-intensive course, students are expected to submit and revise three medium-sized papers as well as to write other, unrevised writing assignments including directed journals and a writing assignment to be determined by each agency partner. The three essay assignments are each part of a larger paper submitted (with further revision) at the end of the course. Enrollment limited to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies students with junior or senior standing or with permission of the instructor.
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0.00 Credits
This course is the service companion course for WGSS 394 Communities of Women: Service-Learning Seminar. Students must be enrolled in WGSS 394. For the internship component, students choose from a number of pre-approved service projects at local agencies whose mission it is to serve women from St. Louis. This course has variable credits. For 2 units of credit, students are expected to work at their partner agency for six to eight hours per week; for 3 units of credit, students are expected to work between eight and 10 hours per week. Students cannot receive credit for any paid work. Credit to be determined in each case.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we explore the links between the theories and practices of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through a combination of research and direct community engagement. Course readings focus on the ways that poverty and violence, along with race and gender expectations, shape the lives of women. A required community service project for this course asks students to examine the relationship between the course readings and the lives of actual women in St. Louis. Over the course of the semester, students design and execute programming for women at a local community agency. This is a writing-intensive course. Students must contact instructor for permission to enroll. CBTL course.
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1.00 Credits
The seminar explores the links between the theories and practices of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through a combination of readings, discussion, and direct community engagement. Readings focus on the legal system and the ways domestic violence is confronted and how criminal justice interventions have responded to new theories and research about the nature of intimate partner violence. Particular attention is directed to the ways that issues of race, poverty, parenthood, and sexual orientation influence the criminal justice response and shape the lives of abused women. Students participate in a court advocacy program to investigate the important discrepancies between theory and practice in the field. Prerequisites: students are required to take WGSS 393 or have taken WGSS 393 to enroll in the seminar.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores representations of and theories about contemporary women's sexual fantasies, attitudes, behaviors, relationships, and communities. Topics include sexual desire and gender; sexuality and the female life cycle; sexual behavior and gender; sexual variations linked with particular socioeconomic, ethnic, psychological, and physical variables; models of female sexual response; committed and uncommitted relationships; sex and marriage; fertility and its control; and teaching children about sex. We read both literary and theoretical texts with an eye to understanding what roles various sexualities play in personal lives, in relationships, and in communities. Prerequisites: WGSS 100B or WGSS 105, or permission from the instructor. Preference to those who have taken WGSS 391, WGSS majors, WGSS minors, seniors, juniors.
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