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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Consideration of topics or issues in women's studies selected on the basis of faculty and student interest. May be taken more than once with different content. Consult fall and spring schedule of classes for specific topics and prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will investigate the rich and problematic relationship between the sciences and issues of sex/gender, sexuality, race, class, and ableness, including cultural biases in science and health. Drawing on the new scholarship about women in the sciences in this country, we will investigate the changing status and activities of women over the past two centuries and the consequences for the sciences and technology. Within an historical context, the course will emphasize the impact of antiracist feminism on the sciences and health in the past three decades. Key analytical questions include: How is scientific knowledge made, believed, and used? What forces control its production and use? What constitutes evidence in science-for scientists and for citizens, and how is that decided? What role do "western" science and technology play in globalization and its impact on people's lives within the U.S. and throughout the world? What forces are working to transform science to increase social, political, and economic justice? What theoretical and practical insights accrue from intersectional feminist analyses (working with the intersections of sex/gender, racial/ethnic heritage, class, ableness, and global status) of science and health? What is the potential for feminist science studies to transform the sciences and health? Examples of specific topics that may be addressed are biological determinism, environmental pollution, and breast cancer science and politics. A Wss 401Z is the writing intensive version of A Wss 401; only one may be taken for credi
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3.00 Credits
A Wss 401Z is the writing intensive version of Wss 401; only one may be taken for credit.
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3.00 Credits
This course has an emphasis on historical perspectives as well as the intersections of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. It studies the phenomenon ot the Asian Diaspora dating from late 18th century to the present. Topics include: immigration laws; labor and work; family and community formation; the processes of reconstructon of history and memory; politics of media representation. In a given semester, the focus may be on Asians in one geographic region such as the Americas, Europe, Africa, or the Pacific Rim. Prerequisite: junior or senior class standing. May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines sexual politics in the Chinese historical/cultural context. Issues discussed and analyzed include: constructions of gender and sexuality (including homosexuality); "policing" of family and kinship structures; ideological indoctrination through education and other means; rape laws; sex crimes; forms of dissent or protest. Readings include literature in translation. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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3.00 Credits
Focused examination of topics in the study of gender, sexuality, race and/or class, as they are positioned and defined in literary or other texts from any period(s) or geographic region(s). Individual semesters may focus on, among other areas: a particular historical period, genre, or theme; theories of gender, sexuality, race, and/or class as related to literary or other forms of representation; a particular cultural problem. May be repeated once for credit when content varies. Prerequisite(s): senior class standing, at least one literature course, and permission of instructor. May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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3.00 Credits
In Environmental Justice: Racism, Classism, and Sexism, we will explore how racism, classism, and sexism impact current environmental "events," including environmental policy-making, public health outcomes, and the rhetoric and politics of environmentalism. Surveying the development of environmental awareness among the public, philosophies behind such awarenesses, and resulting shifts in policy, we will focus on the growth of the environmental justice movement, and will consider how various groups have addressed environmental degradation and injustice. Also under consideration will be a set of related issues: how globalization has impacted these events, the feminist critique of science and its impact, relationships between grass-roots activism (for example, native American activists and other Environmental Justice groups) and between these groups and more scholarly approaches, and contributions by artists, labor-rights groups, religious leaders, animal rights activists, and deep ecologists. Prerequisite(s): Students, at whatever level, are welcome. The requirements will differ for graduate and undergraduate students. For example, graduate students will be reading more theoretical articles, and will be responsible for explaining these to the undergraduate students. In addition, graduate students will be required to submit a final research paper that is much longer (12-20 pages) than that required for undergraduate students.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of women within American society; identifies the systematic factors that have contributed to women's sociopolitical exclusion; investigates selected contemporary ideologies that posit a redefinition of the power relationships within society as the primary political objective. R Pos 433Z & A Wss 433Z are the writing intensive versions of R Pos 433 & A Wss 433; only one of the four courses may be taken for credit. Prerequisite(s): R Pos 101 or permission of instructor. May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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3.00 Credits
R Pos 433Z & A Wss 433Z are the writing intensive versions of R Pos 433 & A Wss 433; only one of the four courses may be taken for credit. Prerequisite(s): R Pos 101 or permission of instructor. May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will examine the history of black women in the United States from the slave era through the post World War II reform movements. It will focus upon the range of demands black women faced during the Gilded and Progressive eras-their participation in the suffrage movement, black struggles for liberation, cultural expressions, labor force, etc. Only one of A Wss 440, A Aas 440 and A His 440 may be taken for credit.? May not be offered in 2008-2009.
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