WGST 07/First Year Seminar: Visual Cultures and Gender
What role do vision and visuality play in constituting gender? In pursuing
answers to this question, this course considers various ways in which the
visual arts gender subjects. Considering structures of artistic production, the
representation of bodies, and patterns of viewing, students explore various
approaches to the visual cultures of gender, through detailed examination of
canonical paintings, sculptures, and photographs, but also of various popular
media, including print advertisements, film, and TV. Dist: ART. WCult:
W.
Professor Randolph
10A-hour
WGST 16/Contemporary Issues in Feminism
This course explores the theoretical underpinnings of some of the most
highly contested issues in society today. We will look at a spectrum of
positions on such issues as: questions of difference and equality; women’s
health and reproductive rights; identity and identity politics;
morality-pornography-violence; eco-feminism-environmentalism; children, family,
and human rights; and the representation/performance of femininity/masculinity.
Special emphasis will be placed on the connection between theory and
practice.
Open to all students. Dist: SOC. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
CI..
Professor Martin
11-hour
WGST 25.1/HIST 95/AAAS 96 Marriage and Divorce in the African Context
Marriage was the widely expected norm for men and women within African
societies. The institution was an important marker of adulthood and it
linked individuals and lineages in a network of mutual cooperation and
support. This course explores marriage and divorce from the pre-colonial
to the post-colonial eras. Using examples from East, West and Southern
Africa, it highlights women’s agency, masculinity, and changing gender
relations of power as the political economies of African societies
transformed.
Open to all students. Dist: SOC. WCult: NW.
Professor Byfield
10A-hour
WGST 44.1/AAAS 66/REL 52 Women's Rituals: In Africa and Around the
World
This course has been canceled
WGST 51.3/ ENGL 62 Animals and Women in Literature
What do stories about animals tell us about the treatment of women in
Western society? What do stories about women tell us about the treatment of
animals in Western society? In this course, we will examine the philosophical
traditions that associate women with animals, and will interrogate women’s
complex response to those associations. We will read literary alongside
religious and philosophical texts, and draw on current schools of critical
thought such as ecofeminism to develop an understanding of these issues. Open
to all students. Open to all students. Dist. LIT. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: CI.
Professor Boggs
2-hour
Associated WGST Courses
ARTH 48/Gender, Race and Politics in 18th Century Art
Professor O'Rourke
10A-hour
Education 62/Adolescent Development
Professor Garrod
10-hour
FREN 75/Women Filmmakers in the French Tradition
Professor Higgins
2A-hour
LATS 51/ Beyond Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Radical Latinos in the
60's
Professor Spitta
10A-hour
Spanish 72/ Latin American and Latino/a Women
Professor Spitta
2A-hour
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