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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Focuses on historical and cross cultural components informing contemporary issues of women s imprisonment. With respect to the contemporary scene, emphasizes the process by which women come to be incarcerated and differentials in treatment of incarcerated women. Examines institutional forces in contemporary corrections generally which may contribute to an understanding of women s imprisonment issues.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines the history and development of gender imagery, historically to the current age of globalized mass-mediated images. Examines how mass media has influenced gender representation, socialization, and identity construction, primarily in the United States but also abroad. Analyzes the ways these representations implicate and are implicated and negotiated by gender, racial, class, ethnic, and religious minorities.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the meanings and stratification of reproduction in our culture. Examines how culture constructs reproduction including controversial topics such as gay adoption, eugenics, reproductive technologies, teen sexuality and government s role in reproduction. Uses a variety of sources from the fields of public health, epidemiology, feminist criticism and the women s health movement to discover the history and current determinants of women s reproductive health and reproductive rights.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Analyzes the evolution and diversity of socially constructed gender differences and hierarchies viewed from comparative international and historical perspectives. The maintenance of gender inequalities in societal institutions, such as education, the family, politics and the economy will be explored. In addition, the course will focus on the prevailing cultural backlash of women and men in America in comparison to other societies. To explain gender differences and hierarchies, the course will consider a range of sociological, and other disciplinary perspectives including biological, psychological, and psychoanalytic. Course objectives will be achieved through lectures, readings, guest lecturers, films, and class discussions.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Ideas about scientifically established differences between women and men, people of color and whites, gays and straights are prevalent in popular culture. Examines how popular culture makes sense of these differences and how science has been shaped by our culture and likewise, how cultural-biases are reinforced by scientific lines of inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores questions such as: What constitutes women s reproductive lives How do women s reproductive lives impact gender status in society How do women s reproductive lives differ by age, race, nationality and sexual preference Who controls reproduction and the cultural discourse regarding reproduction What public policies and practices foster or undermine reproductive freedoms Why are reproductive rights integral to human rights
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Analyzes the evolution and diversity of socially constructed gender differences and hierarchies viewed from comparative international and historical perspectives. The maintenance of gender inequalities in societal institutions, such as education, the family, politics and the economy will be explored. In addition, the course will focus on the prevailing cultural backlash of women and men in America in comparison to other societies. To explain gender differences and hierarchies, the course will consider a range of sociological, and other disciplinary perspectives including biological, psychological, and psychoanalytic. Course objectives will be achieved through lectures, readings, guest lecturers, films, and class discussions.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examination of issues of difference such as race, gender, class, and sexuality as imagined and narrated by contemporary women writers of speculative (science) fiction. We hope to interrogate the impact of 0th century resistance/social movements in particular, the civil rights, feminist, lesbian and gay, and human rights movements on women writers who ve chosen to write against the box of prevailing literary expectation. We also hope to consider (1) how women writers of speculative fiction subvert, or resist, the status quo; () notions of speculative fiction as escapist (meaning, less serious ) literature; (3) the uses of speculative fiction as blueprints for imagining new social orders. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the distinctive features of contemporary women s speculative fiction, the impact of specific fiction to larger feminist agendas. Students who successfully complete this course should be able to describe, explain and give examples of concepts and terms such as the fantastic imagination, the politics of possibilities, and imagined planets. Required reading will include works by Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, Nalo Hopkinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Whenever appropriate, audio/visual aids may be deployed to enhance our appreciation of written texts.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Contemporary adult literature has experienced an incredible boom in coming of age texts, especially in the popular memoir genre. What does it mean for girls to come of age in the U.S. and other countries We will read a variety of adult coming of age texts in order to examine how girls from diverse backgrounds confront the social expectations of gender, race, class, culture, sexuality, and religion that determine their transitions from girlhood to womanhood.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM How do African women and men construct and reorder their lives on a daily basis How do they negotiate their positions, ascribed gender roles and identities in familial, communal, and national spheres What are the salient and socio-economic and political issues facing them How do they emerge as agents of social change Examines current policy frameworks and agendas such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and public policy responses to poverty, gender inequalities in democratic participation and socioeconomic development. Interrogates human rights issues and the rights of the girl child as they pertain to social practices such as female mutilation and child soldiers. Analyzes the changing dynamics of households due to the combined effects of transnational migration, HIV/AIDS and conflicts and their gender implications. Revisits opportunities for social change in the face of an increased pressure from globalization, environmental degradation, a growing retrenchment of the state, and many threats to human security. Interposing several theoretical lenses and building on an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar analyzes the agency roles of women and men in particular African countries. The course objects are to inspire analytical and critical thinking in students, to develop research and problem solving skills, and to challenge students to integrate multiple analytic perspectives.
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