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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the historical development of theories of human rights and their relationship to gender issues. We will consider arguments over women's rights and human rights from the eighteenth century democratic revolutions in the United States and France to the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing. Specific case studies will include reproductive rights and women's economic rights in a world context as well as alliances and rifts between "First World" and "Third World" feminisms.
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4.00 Credits
After a discussion of the Moynihan Report controversy and an assessment of the literature on the black family, the readings will investigate why and how stable black families were encouraged, and how they developed under slavery. The impact of factors such as economics, politics, religion, gender, medicine, and the proximity of free families, on the structure of the black family will be given special attention. In this way, the structure of the slave family on the eve of Emancipation, and its preparedness for freedom, will be tested and assessed. Students will be encouraged to identify persistent links between the "history" of slavery and the black family, and the development of social policy.
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0.00 Credits
Students interested in Independent Studies should contact the Women's Studies Department.
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Interested students should contact the Women's Studies Department.
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0.00 Credits
Independent research with substantial supervised research and written work in gender and women's studies. This research should be directed toward work in WST 397.
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It is the student's responsibility to arrange the internship with the organization and to find a professor as an advisor for the internship. Organization\Companies currently offering internships are Afterimage, Alternatives for Battered Women, Center for Dispute Settlement, City Council of Rochester, Division of Human Rights, Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley, Monroe Districts Attorney's Office, Planned Parenthood, St. Joseph's Villa, Sojourner House, Susan B. Anthony House, TV Dinner\Metro Justice, Urban League of Rochester, Visual Studies Workshop, Wheatly Library Branch and the YWCA. Position descriptions are available in Lattimore 538.
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0.00 Credits
Independent research with substantial supervised research and written work in gender and women's studies.
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4.00 Credits
Juniors and seniors only or prerequisite course in African American Literature, American Literature or Women's Studies. Interested students should contact the Women's Studies Department.
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4.00 Credits
Open only to senior majors or by permission of instructor. Honors in Research recognizes the completion of a distinguished thesis, research paper of approximately 35 pages researched and written under the direction of the faculty advisor, and approved by the faculty advisor and second reader. It is expected that this thesis will be based on research undertaken through WST 393H and WST 394H, and completed in WST 397.
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4.00 Credits
Toni Morrison has emerged as one of the most influential writers and critics in contemporary American culture. This course will approach her work from a broad range of critical perspectives including black feminist thought, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, Biblical exegesis, postcolonial analysis, and critical race theory. Although this class will emphasize rigorous study of her literary work, we will also pay close attention to her contributions to literary criticism, her role in public life as well as her forays into political and national debates. In our study of her novels, we will explore such issues as the importance of history and myth in the creation of personal identity, constructions of race and gender, the dynamic nature of love, the role of the community in social life, and the pressures related to the development of adolescent girls.
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