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Your search for courses for 22/WI and with code: GWSSELECTIVE found 9 courses.
BIOL 101.00 Human Reproduction and Sexuality 6 credits
Closed: Size: 30, Registered: 27, Waitlist: 0
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Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: BIOL 101.WL0 (Synonym 62733)
ENGL 319.00 The Rise of the Novel 6 credits
Open: Size: 15, Registered: 7, Waitlist: 0
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11:10am12:20pm | 11:10am12:20pm | 12:00pm1:00pm |
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This course traces the development of a sensational, morally dubious genre that emerged in the eighteenth-century: the novel. We will read some of the most entertaining, best-selling novels written during the first hundred years of the form, paying particular attention to the novel’s concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. Among the questions we will ask: What is a novel? What distinguished the early novel from autobiography, history, travel narrative, and pornography? How did this genre come to be associated with women? How did early novelists respond to eighteenth-century debates about the dangers of reading fiction? Authors include Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen.
Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course
FREN 235.00 The Human Body in the Francophone World 6 credits
Closed: Size: 20, Registered: 21, Waitlist: 0
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What can a body do? How does it mean? Cultural attitudes elicit distinct responses to this question, and French-speaking cultures in France, North Africa, and West Africa produce particular responses, as do gendered and differently abled bodies. At the same time, isn’t every body like every other body, but different? Through literature, cultural readings, podcasts, and film, this course will examine various aspects of the human body in francophone culture, including gender, athletics, manual labor, artistic expression, sexuality, dance, and “personal development.” Taught in French.
Prerequisite: French 204 or the equivalent
GWSS 265.00 Black Feminist Thought 6 credits
Closed: Size: 25, Registered: 22, Waitlist: 0
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3:10pm4:55pm | 3:10pm4:55pm |
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This course is designed to introduce students to thirty years of black feminist politics, writing, social and cultural analysis, and research. This course begins with a sketch of contemporary thinking about blackness by noted scholars who illuminate the relationship between blackness, black life, systems of sex/gender, biopolitics, and black/queer feminist knowledge production. We go on to historicize the formation of black feminism as a dynamic and fluid area of study within and across the humanities and social sciences. The history of black feminist thought presented in black women’s studies as an inherently decolonial and transformative praxis that centers intellectual radicalism both inside and outside of the academy.
HIST 122.00 U.S. Women's History to 1877 6 credits
Open: Size: 30, Registered: 23, Waitlist: 0
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Gender, race, and class shaped women's participation in the arenas of work, family life, culture, and politics in the United States from the colonial period to the late nineteenth century. We will examine diverse women's experiences of colonization, industrialization, slavery and Reconstruction, religion, sexuality and reproduction, and social reform. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources, as well as historiographic articles outlining major frameworks and debates in the field of women's history.
HIST 270.00 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 12, Waitlist: 0
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12:30pm1:40pm | 12:30pm1:40pm | 1:10pm2:10pm |
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At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).
POSC 308.00 Global Gender Politics* 6 credits
Closed: Size: 15, Registered: 14, Waitlist: 0
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10:10am11:55am | 10:10am11:55am |
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How have gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources contributed to the global crises of violence, sustainability, and inequity? Where and why has the pursuit of gender justice elicited intense backlash, especially within the last two decades? In this course, we will explore the global consequences of gender inequality and the ongoing pursuit of gender justice both transnationally and in different regions of the world. We will investigate a variety of cases ranging from land rights movements in East Africa, to the international movement to ban nuclear weapons. Finally, we will pay special attention to how hard-won gains in women’s rights and other related inequalities in world affairs are being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms.
RELG 218.00 The Body in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 6 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 15, Waitlist: 0
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12:30pm1:40pm | 12:30pm1:40pm | 1:10pm2:10pm |
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Mind and body are often considered separate but not equal; the mind gives commands to the body and the body complies. Exploring the ways the three religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam think about the body will deepen our understanding of the mind-body relationship. We will ask questions such as: How does the body direct the mind? How do religious practices discipline the body and the mind, and how do habits of body and mind change the forms and meanings of these practices? Gender, sexuality, sensuality, and bodily function will be major axes of analysis.
RELG 221.00 Judaism and Gender 6 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 9, Waitlist: 0
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9:50am11:00am | 9:50am11:00am | 9:40am10:40am |
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How does gender shape the Jewish tradition, and how have Jewish historical moments, texts, and practices shaped Jewish notions of gender? Taking Judaism as a test case, this course will explore the relationship between historical circumstance, positionality, and the religious imaginary. We will examine the ways that Jewish gender and theology inform each other. We will see how gender was at play in Jewish negotiations of economic and social class, racial and ethnic status, even citizenship. Following the threads of practice and narrative, we will think about how intersectional gender has shaped the stories Jews tell, and the stories that are told about them.
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