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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An overview of gendered performance genres from a number of cultures. Seeks to familiarize the student with gender-specific music and notions of gender that are often constructed, maintained, transmitted, and transformed through music and performance. Designed for students interested in music, anthropology, and gender studies. Cross-listed with ANTH 177 and MUS 126. 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, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): DNCE 019 (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor. Explores some of the ways that studying dance, an art form whose medium is the body, illuminates feminist, gender, and sexuality studies -- and vice versa. Includes weekly video screenings and readings. No previous dance experience required. Cross-listed with DNCE 131. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to issues of gender, sex, and sexuality in the culture of early America. Based on both primary and secondary literature. Cross-listed with HISA 130. Fulfills the Humanities 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. Covers topics in early American women's lives-work, politics, and sexuality-while charting thedevelopments of gendered systems in the United States. Topics may include masculinity, the rise of the middle class, and the private-public dichotomy. Crosslisted with HISA 132. 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. Introduces students to major themes in the history of U.S. women and gender issues. Drawing upon recent work in the field, it explores the relationships between gendered meanings of politics and the politics of gender in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. Cross-listed with HISA 133. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Examines the evolution of feminist activism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on feminist organizing since the 1960s. Explores how homophobia, race, and class inequality in the first and second wave movements produced narrow definitions of women's issues. Considers efforts to redefine feminism and the postfeminism era. 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. Focuses on "text" as a way to frame one'position, listen to women's voices, and explore lesbian experiences. By discussing critical theory and commentaries, autobiography, performance, and visual and popular culture, students examine the cultural, political, and performance potential of lesbian subjectivity. 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. Considers the complexity of women's experiences within the context of culture, society, political economy, and history. Examines challenges that women face in a society that creates divisions based on race, class, and gender. 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, 1 hour; individual study, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Addresses structural issues related to sexualized entertainment, including pornography, sex work, escort services, sex tourism, erotic dancing, and strip shows. Discusses how gender, race, class, citizenship, and sexuality shape the stratification of the industry. Analyzes how issues such as HIV/AIDS, traffic in women, forced prostitution, and child prostitution impact the sex trade and people working in this industry. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Examines reproductive policies, politics, and practices from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. Discusses political and economic processes and sociocultural dynamics, population control, sex preference, infanticide and neonatal neglect, adoption and foster parenting, abortion, technologically assisted conception, and gestational surrogacy. Cross-listed with ANTH 147. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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