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Course Schedule—Fall 2004

Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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STUDY OF WOMEN, GENDER & SEXUALITY

ANTHROPOLOGY

070.215 (H,S) MUSLIM FAMILIES (3) Lal   Limit 25 Through a reading of anthropological and historical texts, this course investigates the notion of the ‘modern’ Muslim family and the construction of domestic norms in northern India between 1750-1850.  Cross listed with History
Sec. 01
W 2-5

070.332 (H,S)

PUTTING GOD FIRST? AFRICAN –AMERICAN AND DALIT WOMEN’S LIFE – STORIES (3)  Pandey   Select autobiographies/life histories will be read in order to investigate African-American and (South Asian) Dalit women’s constructions of family, community and the self.  What is the place of religion, education and politics in their struggle to become full citizens? Cross listed with History

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY

290.420 (S)
(W)

ORIGINS OF HUMAN SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND VARIATION (3) Kraft   Limit 25   Juniors & Seniors Only Cross-listed with Psychological & Brain Sciences

Sec. 01

T 3-6pm

ENGLISH

060.274 (H) (W)

AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN NOVELISTS (3) Goldberg    Limit 15    20th Century novels by such authors as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Patricia Powell, and Paule Marshall   Cross listed with Center for Africana Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 2-3:30

060.621

HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY Goldberg   Limit 8 Recent works in the history of sexuality and a range of literary texts from the 17th through the early 20th century.

Sec. 01

F 9-12

060.655

GENDER AND MODERNITY  Anderson Limit 8     A seminar on the concepts of gender and modernity in theoretical and literary texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Sec. 01

W 9-12

HISTORY

100.359 (H) (W)
100.303

WOMEN'S LABOR MIGRATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF EXCHANGE IN THE AMERICAS (3) Shell-Weiss    Limit 20Comparative history of women's regional and international labor migrations over last 120 years from the standpoint of both sending and receiving regions.  Faculty identified course which includes discussion on race, ethnicity, gender or non-western cultures. Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

MT 10-12

HUMANITIES

300.303 (H) (W)

EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton Limit 15  Cross-listed with English

Sec. 01

T  1-3

NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

130.330 (H)

SEX AND THE GARDEN: THE HISTORY OF THE INTEPRETATION OF GENESIS 2-3 (3) Robbins  Limit 20 

Sec. 01

TTh 2:30-4

PHILOSOPHY

150.260
(H) (W)
PHILOSOPHY AND FEMINISM:EPISTEMOLOGY (3) Tumulty An exploration of questions at the intersection of feminist philosophy and the theory of knowledge, with special attention to questions about what we can know about gender and gender difference. What does it mean to say women and men are socially different or naturally different? Does being male or female have anything to do with capacity for knowledge? How would we tell? Does feminism have anything to say about what knowledge is? And what, if anything do questions like these have to do with questions about gender and justice? 
Sec. 01

MTW 1

T 12

150.472 (H)

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS (3) Kukla  Limit 20 Prereq: Intro to Bioethics 150.219 or Intro to Moral Philosophy 150.220 or Perm. Req'd. Topics include ethical and legal issues raised by pregnancy, childbirth, assisted reproduction, prenatal testing, abortion, routine prenatal care, reproduction in developing countries, violence against pregnant women, HIV among pregnant women and infants, and medical interventions during pregnancy. Cross-listed with Philosophy
Course added 4/16/04

Sec. 01

W 12-1:50

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES

200.204 (N,S)
(W)

HUMAN SEXUALITY (3) Kraft   Limit 25 Not open to Freshmen    Course focuses on sexual development, sexuality across the lifespan, gender identity, sexual attraction and arousal, sexually transmitted disease, and the history of commercial sex workers and pornography.

Sec. 01

T 12-3

INTERDEPARTMENTAL

360.233 (H,S)

FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY (3) Das, Marrati, Moon Staff      Limit 25 20   This course is an introduction to theories of Feminism, gender, and sexuality. It examines classic and recent texts and considers problems and cases from a variety of cultures and historical periods in local, national and global contexts. 
Formerly offered as 070.204
Cross-listed with Anthropology

Sec. 01

W 5-7:30pm
W 5:30-8:30pm
MW 2-3:30

 

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