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3.00 Credits
An exploration of constructions of gender and the status of women in Hindu and Islamic cultures, with attention to both texts and practices. Primary and secondary readings survey a variety of topics from classical and modern periods, including marriage, sexuality and reproduction, sati, Islamic law, devotion, renunciation and tantra. Prerequisite: Religion 140 or 160 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Religion 160 or 170 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
This course draws on feminist theory, institutional analysis and sociohistorical study to consider masculinity's meanings and practices. Male power, male pain and group-based differences among men are examined. A specific topic (sports, war/the military, social change movements, individual violence, religion) is covered in depth to assess how men sustain, resist and recreate available forms of masculinity. Requirements include an original research project. Our goal is to understand masculinity's power in shaping society and our power to reshape masculinity. Prerequisite: Any 100 level Sociology course or consent of instructor. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
(Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as History 271.) 1 unit - Ragan.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Variable topics course including selected themes organized along regional, generic, interdisciplinary, and cultural boundaries. Also may address specific treatments of women characters in works by and women during different periods of English and American literary history. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on various topics in literature. Courses will vary from year to year; taught by Women's Studies faculty and visiting faculty. Block 3: Topics in Feminist Studies: Black Women Writing About Slavery. The theme of this course takes into account various strategies Black women writers have used to re-imagine themselves outside of the definitions that slavery and the popular imagination have imposed. We will examine different literary genres, as well as works written from the nineteenth century to the present. Texts include those that deal directly deal with slavery and those that do not. An important conceptual model for the course is of a palimpsest; thus our task is essentially an "archaeological" one as we reconstruct a hidden history and the efforts of some to write about it-on the blurred and erased pages of their sisters. We look mostly at contemporary writers like Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Gayl Jones, Sherley Ann Williams, Alice Walker, and Angela Davis. We examine Black and white feminists' theories on the relationship between maternity and the maternal role and the historical literary processes of "degendering" and "regendering" Black womanhood. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and English 380.) 1 unit - Seward. Block 4: Topics in Feminist Studies: The Poet as Witness to War. Writing workshop which explores poetry as a means of writing about war and its social consequences in the tradition of poets who wrote as soldiers, protesters, distant onlookers and innocent civilians. Critiques the role of the poet in society, in times of war (especially Vietnam and Iraq) and in speaking truth to power. Student work produced in a class anthology. Prerequisite: ( Writing Intensive). (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and English 286 and Southwest Studies 280.) 1 unit - Martinez.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Philosophy 100 or Women Studies 110 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
The course will explore the philosophical and rhetorical dimensions of women's bodily experiences. We will examine issues of women's identity, subjectivity and embodiment through an investigation of body image, race, reproduction, and sexuality. Readings will focus on theoretical discussion of these issues. We will also rely on film, music, and narrative to understand the relationship(s) between women's bodies, their identities, and their definition in society. Most importantly, we will also draw from our own experiences as women, and/or the experiences of women we know, to help us make sense of the information we read. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Olive.
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