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3.00 Credits
Technology today is deeply integrated into most aspects of our lives. The course explores the multiple ways in which technology and gender shape each other. Topics will include: feminist technology studies, digital divide, internet, web, and digital technologies, social media, home technologies, biotechnology, reproductive technologies, surveillance, technology and the security "state," and digital entertainment technologies.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will take a close look at the ways in which notions of sexuality, citizenship, and belonging are being reconfigured in nationalist and postnationalist discourses in the US and Europe. The course will begin with an introduction to comparative studies in processes of identification and racialization, paying close attention to the various ways in which feminist theory has informed engagements with the politics of race in the US and Europe. For example: How have histories of racial hygiene, ethnic wars and ethnic cleansing, colonialism, displacement and immigration shaped how we understand, talk and write about race and ethnicity in local contexts? How have feminist engagements with migration, border-crossing and citizenship contributed to our understandings of the construction of nationhood and nation-states? Then, drawing on texts, films, and policy statements, we will look at key examples of gendered, sexualized and racialized "othering" through discourses of the US nation, an integrated Europe, human values, and common goals. Throughout the course, we will seek to gain a broader understanding of the role that state policies, media representations and individual and collective actions play in shaping experiences of belonging, exclusion and resistance.
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3.00 Credits
The intent of this course is to use literature, fiction, the novel, poetry, performance, music, and art as vehicles to reading and analyzing how Caribbean women write and speak culture, resistance, identity, and politics. Selected readings will demonstrate how these wide ranges of writings can be a powerful means of communication for education, influence, resistance, and protest. Selected works will be drawn from women in the Caribbean Diaspora, Anglophone, Francophone, and Latin America. Fulfills Women of Color inside or outside the U.S. requirement for Women's Studies majors and minors.
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3.00 Credits
Science and religion represent two powerful institutions, their histories intertwined and inextricably interconnected. Patriarchal institutions, often hostile to women and gender, feminists have challenged both with great vigor. This course examines these contestations using a comparative analysis of the United States and India. The founders of the United States imagined secularism as a separation of church and state--religion being relegated to the private, and to non-state actors. In contrast, the founders of India imagined secularism as pluralism-- the state actively supporting all religions. Despite these contrasting visions, there are animated challenges to secularism in both countries today. The "religious right" in the U. S. invokes its Judeo Christian origins to insist on the centrality of Christianity. Similarly, religious nationalists in India insist on privileging the dominant religion, Hinduism. The course will examine the complexities of the histories of science and religion, and our gendered visions of tradition and modernity. It will emphasize the defining role of gender, race, class and sexuality in the histories of science and religion in both contexts, and how these categories of difference continue to shape the gendered landscapes of religion and science India and the U. S. The course will include discussion on the new reproductive technologies, debates on evolution and the definitions of life, and our ecological futures.
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4.00 Credits
This course is about the framework of transnational women's and gendered activisms and scholarship. We will survey the field of transnational feminist research and praxis, locating structures of power, practices of resistance, and the geographies of development at work in a range of theories and social movements. The course will not only examine the implementation of feminist politics and projects that have sought to ensure some measurable social, cultural, and economic changes, but also explore the ways conceptions of the `global' and `transnational' have informed these efforts. Students will have the opportunity to assess which of these practices can be applicable, transferable, and/or travel on a global scale. We will focus not only on the agency of individuals, but also on the impact on people's lives and their communities as they adopt strategies to improve material, social, cultural, and political conditions of their lives. Satisfies the Integrative Experience for BA-WoSt majors.
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1.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is organized around graduate student presentations of their own research and will include some readings on general questions of feminist methodology and ethics of research. Students will be expected to do the reading, present their research, and discuss others'.
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
How does a consideration of feminist concerns - gender, sexuality, the private, the domestic - help us interpret the current conjuncture? To get at these questions, this class will take up issues of secularism, neoliberalism, human rights, health, imperialism, epistemology, transnationalism, reproduction, and sexuality as they structure the relationship of the U.S. to the global south (particularly Latin America).
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3.00 Credits
Contact department for description.
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