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3.00 Credits
This course examines the legal and social status of women historically and in modern American society as well as the law and policy relating to that status. The course discusses legal tools developed to address sexual inequality, and the possibility that law both challenges and supports women's subordination. The course and the materials are organized around concrete legal problems of particular and current concern to women. Issues are approached intersectionally, addressing sex, race, sexual orientation, and other differences simultaneously. The issue areas include, but are not be limited to, employment, education, family, reproduction, health, sexuality, violence, Equal Rights Amendment, criminal law, and equality theory, as well as the laws, cases, current statutes and legislative proposals that apply to and affect women. (Also listed as POL 329) Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155 Humanities and Social Science246 s
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This course is an introduction to the similarities and differences in migration/ annexation/colonization and consequential social status informing the experience of Latinas in the United States. Special attention will be paid to subjectivity and representation by social signifiers such as gender, race, class, and sexualities. While the course title assumes a pan-ethnic label, the course will explore the complex diversity of women who trace their ancestry to geographical areas including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Pre-Requisites: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155 and ENG 110
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Investigates the ideological functions of moving images (film/television/video), still images (photography/ magazines), and aural images (music) of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders created by mass media institutions to legitimatize discrimination and oppression in the United States. Explores images by independent producers/ directors/artists to challenge and resist negative images and create transgressive images of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender. Employs critical and theoretical methods from feminist-gender, psychoanalytic, and semiotic-theorists to interpret meaning in these representations. Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155
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This course examines women in U.S. society from a sociological perspective. Following the ideas of C. Wright Mills, this class connects the "personal troubles" ofindividual women with the "social issues" pertaining towomen as a minority group in the United States. In doing so, it provides a sociological analysis of women in the major institutions in U.S. society. Throughout the semester, the course highlights the intersection of race, class, and gender and the unique manner in which sociologists research these interconnections and women in general. Prerequisite: SOC 101 (Also listed as SOC 347)
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3.00 Credits
In this course students explore the connections between women and nature from an ecofeminist perspective. The course encompasses the history, theory, and praxis of ecofeminism, considers the variety of positions within ecofeminism, investigates political, social, and developmental impacts of ecofeminism, and provides students with the opportunity for activism in their own lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course assumes that sexuality is embedded in social structures and interconnected with various forms of structural injustice. Keeping in focus that lesbian women are a very diverse people, the course reviews historical trends, considers issues of definition, and studies relationships, family, and community, including a unit on lesbianism and religion. Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155
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This course examines the history of women and gender in modern South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes the historical processes that transformed women's lives, and considers how women themselves negotiated or subverted these processes in their own interest. Major themes and topics include the transformation of gender through colonialism and nationalism, the emergence of women's movements, women's labor andglobalization, and gender in the South Asian diaspora. (Also listed as HIST 355) Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the contemporary Asian immigration to the United States and examines its impact on immigrant women's roles in the workplace, family, and the community. It addresses the importance of gender in immigrant adaptation and identity formation not only among the immigrants but also among their U.S.-born children. Discussion includes the ways in which ethnicity, class, age, citizenship, and sexuality intersect to shape various experiences of Asian American women in the context of work and life. The complexity of ethnicity, including multiracial/multiethnic identities and the phenomenon of intermarriages, is explored in connection with gender relations in the contemporary Asian American communities. Course Prerequisites: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155 or ENG 110
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This course examines women and gender in Islamic societies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Beginning with an overview of pre-modern history, the course focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include: women's roles in production and reproduction, gender ideologies and representations of Muslim women, and the development of feminist, nationalist, and Islamist movements. Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155 Women's Studies 247
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3.00 Credits
This course will look at how war and the preparation for war have affected the lives, hopes, and images of women around the world. It will examine roles of women in war, military service, and militarism in societal development in world history primarily since the eighteenth century with these questions central: What roles have women played in war? Are women victims of conflict alone or are they active participants as well? And how has war helped shape female roles, gender stereotypes, and national mythologies? A broad comparative framework, exploring "Western" and "non-Western" societal experience aanalytical approaches, will be adoped throughout. (Crosslisted with ASN 368 and HIST 368) Prerequisite: AACS 150 or AACS 155 or WS 110 or WS 150
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