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Fall 2009

• WGST 100: The Politics of Women's Health

  This course will explore the politics of women's health from the perspective of women of different races, ethnicities, classes and sexual orientations in the U.S. The organization of the health care system and women's activism (as consumers and health care practitioners) shall frame our explorations of menstruation, sexuality, nutrition, body image, fertility control, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. We will cover basic facts about the female body and pay particular attention to adjustments the body makes during physiological events (i.e. menstruation, sexual and reproductive activity, and menopause). We will focus on the medicalization of these processes and explore alternatives to this medicalization. 6; S/CR/NC; Social Sciences, Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement; offered Fall 2009 -- M. Sehgal

• WGST 234: Feminist Theory

  Feminism has to do with changing the world. We will explore feminist debates about changing the world using a historical framework to situate feminist theories in the context of the philosophical and political thought of specific time periods and cultures. Thus, we will follow feminist theories as they challenged, critiqued, subverted and revised liberalism, Marxism, existentialism, socialism, anarchism, critical race theories, multiculturalism, postmodernism and post-colonialism. We will focus on how theory emerges from and informs matters of practice. We will ask: What counts as theory? Who does it? How is it institutionalized? Who gets to ask the questions and to provide the answers? 6; Social Sciences, Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement; offered Fall 2009 -- B. Allen

• WGST 400: Integrative Exercise

  6; Does not fulfill a distribution requirement; offered Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010 -- Staff

Winter 2010

• WGST 110: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

  This course is an introduction to the ways in which gender structures our world, and to the ways feminists challenge established intellectual frameworks. However, because gender is not a homogeneous category but is differentiated by class, race, sexualities, ethnicity, and culture, we also consider the ways differences in social location intersect with gender. 6; Humanities, Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement; offered Winter 2010, Spring 2010 -- A. Igra, D. Nemec Ignashev

• WGST 200: Feminist Ways of Knowing

  In this course we will examine whether there are feminist ways of knowing, the criteria by which knowledge is classified as feminist and the various methods used by feminists to produce this knowledge. Some questions that will occupy us are: How do we know what we know? Who does research? Does it matter who the researcher is? How does the social location (race, class, gender, sexuality) of the researcher affect research? Who is the research for? How can research relate to efforts for social change? While answering these questions, we will consider how different feminist researchers have dealt with them. 6; Social Sciences; offered Winter 2010 -- M. Sehgal

• WGST 400: Integrative Exercise

  6; Does not fulfill a distribution requirement; offered Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010 -- Staff

Spring 2010

• WGST 110: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

  This course is an introduction to the ways in which gender structures our world, and to the ways feminists challenge established intellectual frameworks. However, because gender is not a homogeneous category but is differentiated by class, race, sexualities, ethnicity, and culture, we also consider the ways differences in social location intersect with gender. 6; Humanities, Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement; offered Winter 2010, Spring 2010 -- A. Igra, D. Nemec Ignashev

• WGST 396: Transnational Feminisms

  This course examines the field of transnational feminist theorizing and the practices of global feminisms. Using a comparative feminist solidarity model, we will learn how to cross the borders of nation, race, class and sexuality to engage with differently situated people. We will focus on postcolonial feminist critiques of the western feminist lens and start developing self-reflexivity in terms of learning how to situate one's identity and work transnationally. We will map out the transnational dimensions of gender, race, class and sexuality, focusing in particular on nationalism, religious fundamentalism, militarism, globalization, and the politics of resistance. 6; Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement, Does not fulfill a distribution requirement; offered Spring 2010 -- M. Sehgal

• WGST 400: Integrative Exercise

  6; Does not fulfill a distribution requirement; offered Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010 -- Staff