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The chief goal of the course is to encourage a reading of law that explores the literary meanings and lessons of legal or law-like texts from a raced and gendered perspective. The class begins by addressing law as literature and includes readings of statutory provisions and cases. The course then considers law in literature, and offers insights or criticisms about written fictional depictions of the practice of law and law's effects upon various individuals or social groups, especially women of color. A third portion of the class is devoted to selected themes concerning law in film. Lolita Buckner Inniss.
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Focusing on the effects of the phenomenon of Anti-Islamism or Islamophobia within the European expansion and the German, respectively European, debate on integration and multiculturalism, this course seeks to understand and reexamine notions of German national identity and gender in the light of this new era. We will be studying recent debates on integration and Islamic minority which challenge our traditional understanding of critical categories like feminism, race, and gender within the framework of Western modernity. (Same as German Studies 155.) Piesche.
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An interdisciplinary examination of the history and contemporary practice of feminist thought. Topics include the history of feminist thought in Western culture, the broadening and complication of that canon to include examinations of race, class, gender, sexuality, ableism and ageism, and the implications of global feminist thought. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, 101 or consent of instructor. (Same as Government 201.) Maximum enrollment, 20. Lacsamana.
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Examines the ways war and processes of militarization impact women in developed and so-called developing countries. Accompanying this discussion will be an analysis of women's relationship to the "state" and "nation" during periods of warfare. Readings range from personal narratives written by women who have experienced war first-hand to those actively engaged in revolutionaly anti-imperialist struggles. These narratives will be grounded by theoretical readings that explore the ongoing debates and tensions among feminists regarding nationalism, violence, war and militarization. Prerequisite, 101 or consent of the instructor. Lacsamana.
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A critical philosophical examination of the normative categories of race, gender and culture. Topics include the origin, character and function of racial, gender and social identities. Analysis will focus on questions concerning the malleability of these identities, as well as questions concerning their psychological and social significance. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, One course in philosophy, Africana studies or women's studies. (Same as Africana Studies 222 and Philosophy 222.) Maximum enrollment, 20. Franklin.
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Explores gender and gender issues in classical and contemporary dramatic literature, theatre and performance, and how "female" has been defined, represented and played. Topics include constructing "female" and its cultural significance; cross-dressing; the role of women performers and writers in shaping the representation and construction of female; contemporary feminist performance theory. (Oral Presentations.) (Same as Theatre 230.) Bellini-Sharp.
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Examines how "natural" differences of gender and race are created through discourses, images and everyday practices in particular spatial contexts. Using historical and fictional texts, ethnographies, theoretical discussions and films the course explores the production of racial and gender differences in European development and imperialist expansion. Focuses on three historical periods in the production of racialized and gendered geographies: plantation/slave societies in the Americas, African Colonialism, contemporary globalization and ethnic diversity in Europe. (Same as Africana Studies 233.) Merrill.
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Examines the connections between racial, gender and class oppression and the subjugation of the non-human environment. Reading works by scholars such as Carolyn Merchant, Vandana Shiva, Karen Warren, Greta Gaard and Mary Mellor, we will examine feminist environmental thought, exploring the theoretical links between women, nature and culture, and connecting these theories to women's environmental praxis. (Writing-intensive.) (Same as Environmental Studies 255.) Maximum enrollment, 20. Barry.
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Stresses special lessons that anthropology has to teach about the gendered facets of linguistic expression, including the necessity of an approach that is both empirical, including moments of interaction, and critical, exploring issues of power and agency. Considers conceptual benefits and limitations to using gendered difference as a model for sexual difference in the study of linguistic expression. Prerequisite, one course in anthropology or consent of instructor. (Same as Anthropology 257.) LaDousa.
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How are women portrayed in Premodern texts? Did women speak through these texts or were they spoken for? Examines these questions and others as we explore Christian and Muslim textual representations of woman, her relationships with men and society, her spirituality and particularly her corporality from 11th- 17th centuries. From harlot to saint, from poetess to mystic and enlightened one, we will examine her textual roles as a reflection of her cultural roles in Al-Jahiz, Ibn Hazam, As-Sulamii, Nafzawii, Alfonso X, Cervantes, Calderón, Santa Teresa, Zayas and Sor Juana. (Same as Comparative Literature 284 and Religious Studies 284.) A Mescall.
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