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WGST-140-01 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
The key aim of this course is to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of women’s and gender studies. We take as our primary focus the interrogation of gender as a ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ phenomenon. We question the meanings of femininity, masculinity, and sexual norms, and explore ways in which ideas about gender and sexuality shape social roles and identities. Our analysis here is always attentive to ways in which race, nationality, class, and ethnicity function in the experience of gender and sexuality. Topics we will investigate include embodiment, critical heterosexuality, female masculinity, the state and globalization, reproduction, and violence. In addition to introducing you to the growing body of women’s and gender studies scholarship, this course will emphasize the development of reading, writing and critical thinking skills.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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WGST-140-02 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
The key aim of this course is to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of women’s and gender studies. We take as our primary focus the interrogation of gender as a ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ phenomenon. We question the meanings of femininity, masculinity, and sexual norms, and explore ways in which ideas about gender and sexuality shape social roles and identities. Our analysis here is always attentive to ways in which race, nationality, class, and ethnicity function in the experience of gender and sexuality. Topics we will investigate include embodiment, critical heterosexuality, female masculinity, the state and globalization, reproduction, and violence. In addition to introducing you to the growing body of women’s and gender studies scholarship, this course will emphasize the development of reading, writing and critical thinking skills.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
WGST-140-03 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
This course introduces students to the discipline of women’s and gender studies. We will explore the broadly and critically defined “genealogies” of women’s studies and investigate the key concepts, theoretical debates, ideologies, and historical significance of the discipline. Learning and borrowing from Sophocles to Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf to Audre Lorde, we, in a self-reflexive manner, attempt to construct a theoretical framework that will be helpful, productive, and challenging to our intellectual and practical pursuit of a juster world in which both women and men can celebrate themselves and each other. In this endeavor, special emphases will be given to the issues of violence, militarism, human rights, sexuality and body, labor, domesticity, and social activism. The investigation of these issues will be put in the context of related, but distinct, intellectual interrogations of race, class, nationality, ethnicity, and sexual orientations in the disciplines of cultural studies, race theory, postcolonial studies, and gay/lesbian studies.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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