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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001 or consent of instructor. Considers ways in which women's labor is key to the growth of transnational corporations. Examines how class, race, and sexual inequalities impact, contest, and shape gender identities and relations. Analyzes patterns of women's work in the new international division of labor through case studies of export processing zones, reproductive labor, and sex tourism. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001 or consent of instructor. Examines the field of sexuality studies using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasizes the relation between culture, history, and political economy in the emergence of sexual practices and sexualized identities. Examines theories of sexuality and identity, with particular attention to violence, human rights, and political agency. Cross-listed with ANTH 145. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 8 hours per quarter; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduces the theories of violence against women through intersectionalist feminist perspectives. Involves the analysis of violence simultaneously marked by race, ethnicity, nation, class, and sexual orientation. Compares cross-cultural and transnational perspectives. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An exploration of the ways in which feminist theory provides insight on contemporary issues in bioethics. Topics include women in clinical research, cosmetic surgery, abortion, contract gestation, fetal protection policies, and the politics of mental illness. Cross-listed with PHIL 171. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines how path-breaking scholarship by women of color in the United States and in developing countries has been central to rethinking theoretical foundations and to new ways of knowing, understanding, and practicing politics. Focuses on scholarship that critiques and analyzes issues concerning race, antiracism, human rights, citizenship, empire, globalization, and social justice. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates philosophical issues concerning race and gender. Themes include the role of cultural and biological criteria in defining these concepts; the roles of race and gender in personal identity; the nature of racism, sexism, and their variants; and policy implications such as affirmative action and the civil status of homosexual relationships. Cross-listed with PHIL 108. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to "Third World" women's politics. Covers women's politifrom a global perspective. Although international in breadth, emphasis is placed on South Asia, sub- Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. Cross-listed with ANTH 109. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities,Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Cultural study of Vienna from fin de siecle to the present through literature, film, philosophy, and the visual arts. Topics include sexuality, visual desire, crisis of language, anti-Semitism, and the post-World War II confrontation with the Nazi period. All readings are in English; selected readings in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with CPLT 110A, EUR 110A, and GER 110A. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Looks at former Indochinese refugees who are producing literature and films in the United States and France. Examines how "Indochina" has beenconstructed, and in particular, has been gendered female in the colonial imaginary. Explores how Southeast Asian immigrants are returning to the Western gaze. Cross-listed with MCS 142. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Looks at Asian American autobiographies and films written and directed by women. Explores why the genre of autobiography is enabling and contentious within Asian American women's writings. Examines films to see how such women filmmakers contend with memory, gender, and identity. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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