WSTP
140-01, 02,03 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)
This course provides
a theoretical framework for examining questions of sexual difference in
history, culture, and contemporary society. Students will learn central
concepts and research methods in Women’s Studies and use them to examine
such topics as family, religion, work, sexuality, and social change.
01 T/R 11:40-12:55
Reiss 112 Professor Rupal Oza
02 T/R 10:15-11:30
Lau AV 158 Professor Rupal Oza
03 W
7:00-9:30 PM
Professor Bonnie Morris
WSTP
200-01 Feminist Theory (3)
This course will
examine a variety of feminist theories--from eighteenth and nineteenth
century writers such as Wollstonecraft and Mill through the radical feminist
discourse of Ti-Grace Atkinson and Shulamith Firestone to contemporary
writers and activists. The class will focus on central and recurring
debates within feminist theory and practice: debates between essentialism
and social constructionism; between liberal reformism and radical transformation;
between the politics of sameness and the politics of difference.
We will also examine how feminist theories have attempted to reckon with
the challenges of poststructuralism and the critiques offered by women
of color. The intersections of race/ethnicity and class with the
category of gender will also offer a central analytic strand throughout
the course.
01 T 3:15
-5:45 Walsh 494 A Professor Elizabeth Velez
WSTP 251-01 Women
and the Law (3)
This course will
introduce students to the law of sex discrimination and women’s rights,
with particular emphasis on the issues of employment discrimination (including
sexual harassment), violence against women, marriage and divorce law, and
reproductive and abortion rights. It will consider the assumptions
and biases that have shaped the law in these areas, tracing the historical
development of constitutional and statutory protection for women’s rights
and exploring feminist and liberal critiques of the current state of the
law. Finally, while the course’s primary focus will be on American
law, it will also include students to other countries’ approaches to rape
law and abortion rights, comparing and contrasting the assumptions about
women that underlie different legal systems.
01 W 7-9:30
p.m. WGR 203 Professors Gillian Wood and Meg DeRonge
WSTP 253-01 Women’s
International Human Rights (3)
This course will
introduce students to the law of sex discrimination and women's rights,
with particular emphasis on issues of employment discrimination (including
sexual harassment), violence against women, marriage and divorce law, and
reproductive and abortion rights. It will consider the assumptions
and biases that have shaped the law in these areas, tracing the historical
development of constitutional and statutory protection for women's rights,
and exploring feminist and liberal critiques of the current state of the
law. Finally, while the course's primary focus will be on American
law, it will also introduce students to other countries' approaches to
rape law and abortion rights, comparing and contrasting the assumptions
about women that underlie different legal systems.
Women's human rights
issues have been conspicuously absent from post-World War II efforts to
promote and protect human rights. This course looks to the critical work
of activists and scholars from around the world to assess the human rights
framework in terms of its successes and failures in advancing women's rights.
We will examine country-specific cases of human rights abuses and activism
in order to develop an understanding of the nature of sex-specific human
rights abuses, including violence against women in conflict, trafficking
of women and institutional discrimination and the different means used
to combat them.
01 R 7-9:30
p.m. ICC 119 Professor Regan Ralph
WSTP 280-01
Sexuality and Gender (3)
This course will
explore gender and sexuality in juxtaposition to each other. Our attempt
will be examine the discourses and structures that frame our understanding
of gender and sexuality as separate and intersecting. We will examine
the authorship of such discourses and structures, that is who gets to speak
and when. Subsequently, we will be vigilant to the kinds of politics
that are envisioned on the basis of such discourses and structures.
This attention to authorship is to question location - the 'here' and 'there'.
That is what discourses and structures of gender and sexuality are considered
'legitimate' and where? While being attentive to this question we
will examine and drawn on multiple contexts through a shifting rubric of
geography, race, and class.
01 T/R 2:40-3:55
Professor Rupal Oza
WSTP 301-01 Women’s
Studies Tutorial (3)
Arranged with professor
WSTP 350-01 Women
in International Development (3)
This course is a
cross-cultural survey of the status of women in developing countries.
As such it is an exploration of the historical and contemporary events
that have shaped international development, with analyses of development
theories which identify salient issues in women's lives. The cross-cultural
focus examines women of color in the western world, and elsewhere in the
"Third World" through some of these issues: agriculture, health, nutrition,
urban living, education and communications, family planning, women's organizations,
technology, legal statutes, energy, migration and employment, religion,
and public administration. The assumptions of this course are that
(1) it is possible to characterize the role of women in the development
process; (2) women as a corporate entity endure unique problems;
and (3) they require special measures to address their developmental needs.
Permission of instructor required.
01 R
7-9:30 p.m ICC 210 B Professor Marsha Darling
CROSS-LISTED
COURSES:
AMTH 281 Art of
the 1930's W 2:40-3:55 Walsh 191 Prof. Hilton
CLAS 220 Sexuality
and Love in Ancient Literature T/R 10:15-11:30 Reiss
281 Prof. Pedrick
DEMO 493 Demography
of Reproductive Health M 4:15-5:55
ICC 207B Prof. Stephen
ENGL 121 Literature
of Medieval Women M/W 1:15-2:30 NN MCN Prof.
Wickham-Crowley
HEST 190 Women's
Health Issues W 1:15-3:05 Room TBA Prof. Nichols
HIST 288 African
American History T/R 4:15-5:30 ICC 210A Prof. Darling
HIST 446 Crisis
and Change: Church and the Age of Revolution R 3:15-5:05 ICC
118 Prof. Horvath-Peterson
NURS 549 Cancer
Prevention and Control T 4:15-7:05 Reiss 284 Lab TBA
Prof. Burnett
LING 343 Women,
Men and Language T/R 10:15-11:30 ICC 117
Staff
SOCI 145
Family and Society M/W 10:15-11:30 ICC 104 Prof.
Thomas
SOCI 149 Family
and Gender in Japan R 6:15-8:45 ICC 104 Prof. Imamura
SOCI 231 Representations
of Les/Gay in Popular Culture T/R 11:40-12:55 LAU AV
158 Prof. Walters
THEO 040 Women
Mystics T/R 11:40-12:55 WGR 213 Prof. Minore
THEO 083 Feminist
Theological Ethics M/W 2:40-3:55 WAL 490 Prof. Weaver