| WGSS 100-01 |
Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
BOSLER 208 |
| WGSS 101-01 |
Gender, Race and Pop Culture
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-03. This course investigates the influence of popular culture on our perceptions of gender, sexuality, race, and class, emphasizing their interconnected nature. Students will engage with a diverse range of theories and methodologies from the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and apply them to popular culture content such as advertising, music and music videos, television, film, toys, and social media. The course posits that popular culture is never simply entertainment. Instead, it functions as a platform for constructing and communicating narratives and imagery that reflect and shape our understanding of race, ethnicity, femininities, masculinities, and sexualities as well as the broader social dynamics of these overlapping identities. These cultural representations exert influence on various aspects of everyday life, including consumer choices and our shifting perceptions of what we consider normal, acceptable, or aspirational. By honing critical thinking skills, students will learn to independently analyze and deconstruct layers of meaning in popular cultural products. Class meetings will be a mixture of lectures, group discussions, individual and group exercises, and films. Assignments will include active class participation, informal and formal writing and research assignments, class presentations, and an individual project exploring a popular culture topic of your choice.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 201-01 |
Goddesses, Prostitutes, Wives, Saints, and Rulers: Women and European Art 1200-1680
Instructor: Melinda Schlitt
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 216-01. How has the representation of women been constructed, idealized, vilified, manipulated, sexualized, and gendered during what could be broadly called the "Renaissance" in Europe? How have female artists, such as Sofanisba Anguissola (1532-1625) or Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), among others, represented themselves, men, and other familiar subjects differently from their male counterparts? How have female rulers, like Queen Elizabeth I of England, controlled their own political and cultural self-fashioning through portraiture? What role do the lives and writings of female mystics, like Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) or Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) play in depictions of their physical and spiritual identity? How was beauty and sexuality conceived through the imagery of mythological women, like Venus, or culturally ambivalent women, like courtesans and prostitutes? What kind of art did wealthy, aristocratic women or nuns pay for and use? Through studying primary texts, scholarly literature, and relevant theoretical sources, we will address these and other issues in art produced in Italy, France, Spain, Northern Europe, and England from 1200-1680. The course will be grounded in an understanding of historical and cultural contexts, and students will develop paper topics based on their own interests in consultation with the professor. A screening of the documentary film, "A Woman Like That" (2009), on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi and a trip to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. will take place during the second half of the semester.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
WEISS 221 |
| WGSS 201-02 |
Women, Gender and Judaism
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 240-01 and RELG 240-01.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| WGSS 201-03 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Art
Instructor: Ty Vanover
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 205-04. This course offers an introduction to modern European art from roughly 1800 to 1945 with a marked focus on the ways that art pictured, responded to, and subverted gender roles and conceptions of sexuality. In particular, we will examine how widespread social changes (urbanization, class formation), political developments (nationalism, socialism, fascism), and scientific developments (sexual science, psychoanalysis) incited shifts in how European artists conceived of their identities and positionalities. We will supplement canonical texts in feminist and gender theory with recent interventions in queer, trans, and post-colonial theory to arrive at a historically grounded understanding of gender and sex in modern art. Together, we will consider depictions of sex work in post-Impressionist art, sexual "primitivism" and the Black model, masculinity in Expressionist art, and trans approaches to modern art, among other topics, in order to rethink traditional art historical approaches to the modern canon. No prior experience in Art History or Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is required.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
WEISS 219 |
| WGSS 202-01 |
European Women's History
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 278-01. This course will explore the lives of European women in the modern period (1789 to the post WWII period). It looks at both rural and urban women, issues of class, family and motherhood as well as demands for social and political rights for women. The readings include primary sources such as housekeeping guides, novels and war propaganda as well as secondary sources such as biographies and anthropological studies.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| WGSS 202-02 |
Choreographing Gender and Sexuality in American Dance
Instructor: Emily Hawk
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 211-01. The 20th century witnessed profound change in American ideas about gender and sexuality, from the "separate spheres" ideology at the turn of the century, to the rise of multiple feminist waves, to the construction of the "closet" and the gay liberation movement, and beyond. Dance - as an embodied art form - provides a powerful lens for examining this evolution. This course interweaves the history of dance with the history of gender and sexuality to illuminate larger social, political, and cultural trends in American life. We will consider how dancers and choreographers used their bodies to absorb, contest, and reconstruct existing norms about masculinity, femininity, and queerness; we will also consider how critical and audience response to dance performance revealed shifting ideas about gender, sexuality, and the body. Topics include social dance and working-class leisure at the turn of the century; feminism and the early modern soloists; contested masculinity from modern dance to breakdance; and dance amid the AIDS epidemic. No prior experience with dance is necessary to enroll; this course welcomes all students interested in cultural history, intellectual history, and the history of gender and sexuality. Through reading and viewing assignments, class discussion and activities, and written assessments, students in this course will learn to analyze movement, write clearly and vividly about dance performance, conduct primary source research, and assess the historical significance of dance in American life and culture.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 208-01 |
Sex, Science, and Culture: Intro to Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
This course explores how practices, identities, behaviors, and representations of sexualities shape and are shaped by scientific discourses as well as political, cultural, social, religious, medical and economic practices of societies across time and space. We will put sexuality at the center of analysis, but will develop understandings of sexuality as they are related to sex, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, nationality, and geographical location. We will investigate the construction of identities, the shifting definitions of "normal" in gender, sex, and sexuality, and the implications of these changes for marginalized communities, with the aim of fostering a nuanced appreciation of the social construction of sexualities and the ongoing dialogues that shape our lived experiences today. Students will explore the historical and social processes through which diverse behaviors are and are not designated as sexual. They will then analyze how these designations influence a range of institutional forces and social phenomena. Topics will vary depending on instructor but may include: medicine, environmentalism, colonialism and nation-building, STI and HIV transmission, public health campaigns, art and literary production, visual and popular culture, community development, family structure, human rights frameworks, and law or policy.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 220-01 |
History of American Feminism
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03 and HIST 211-02. This course will emphasize such topics as the 19th century women's movement, the suffrage movement, radical and liberal feminism, and African-American feminism. We will pay particular attention to the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and to women's multiple and often conflicting responses to patriarchy and other forms of oppression.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Music, Gender, and Performance
Instructor: Ellen Gray
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MUAC 211-01. Global divas, trans voices, and all girl bands: these are some of the topics we will consider. This course examines relationships between gender, music, and performance from an interdisciplinary perspective (music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, gender and queer theory, performance studies). We examine debates around issues of sex and gender and nature and culture through the lens of musical performance and experience and draw on musical examples from a diverse range of socio-cultural contexts from around the world. Some questions we consider include: To what extent is participation in particular musical scenes dictated by gendered conventions? What might the voice tell us about gender or sexuality? How might the gendered performances and the voices of musical celebrities come to represent or officially speak for particular publics? How does music shape our understanding of emotion, our experience of pleasure? Class discussions will focus on careful readings of the assigned texts and listening/viewing assignments. Majors across the College are welcome and no musical note reading skills are necessary.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
EASTC 411 |
| WGSS 301-02 |
Chaucer's Women
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 311-01. Patient Griselda, sensual Alisoun, long-suffering Constance, the irrepressible Wife of Bath - in The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer provides a wide range of women who alternately uphold and challenge the medieval boundaries of femininity. In this class we will explore medieval conceptions of gender, sexuality, and authority by way of Chaucer's most memorable women, read alongside confessional manuals, scientific treatises, and religious tracts that provide insight into how medieval scholars conceptualized the differences between men and women.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 207 |
| WGSS 301-03 |
Fascism and Film: Propaganda, Sexualized Politics and Male Fantasies
Instructor: Sara Galli, Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01 and ITAL 323-01. Taught in English. In this course, we will explore the narratives of fascism in cinema from the 1920s onwards. The infamous slogan "cinema is the most powerful weapon" was coined by fascist dictator Mussolini who understood how the media could create consensus and control. We will begin our analysis from the Italian cinema produced before and during fascism by directors Camerini, Gallone, and Brignone: their cinema revolves around a fantasy of masculinity associated with racial and ethnic superiority, in contrast to the feminine sphere of reproduction, pliability, and madness. We will then examine the shift to selective memories of victimization and rejection in postwar antifascist films by directors such as Bertolucci, De Sica, Wertmuller, Fellini, Cavani, Taviani, and Spielberg. These films characterize fascism through symbols of violence, immorality, and instability: from the policing of national and sexual boundaries to man-to-man bonding and the fear of homosexuality, and images of Nazi and fascist eroticism. Finally, through the analysis of works by directors such as Scola, Benigni, Bellocchio, and Tarantino, we will explore how cinema continues to intercept the cultural configurations that fascism has constructed of itself, the system(s) of power it has created, and the ur-fascist myths still present in western societies. The FLIC session in Italian (Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:30pm) is offered for Italian minors/majors, INBM majors, and INST majors who have completed ITAL 231 or equivalent.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| WGSS 302-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 306-01 and HIST 317-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| WGSS 302-02 |
Judith Butler
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PHIL 261-04 and SOCI 313-01. The work of Judith Butler on gender, sexuality, performativity, precarity, ability, grievability, and the self has been influential across the social sciences and humanities for the last 40 years. In this WID course, we seek to follow the development of these ideas in their work, and to think about the ways in which they can inform our understandings of both academic issues and contemporary social reality. The multidisciplinary impact of Butler's work is reflected in the multidisciplinary composition of the student body in this course, and it is my hope that we will learn not only from Butler, but from one another and our different disciplinary ways of knowing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 304 |
| WGSS 306-01 |
Gender Identities and Sexualities
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PSYC 435-01. In this advanced seminar, we will discuss current psychological theory and research relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual practices. The course is designed to acquaint you with some of the key issues, questions, and findings in this field, as well as to allow you to develop some of the critical skills needed to evaluate research findings. We will discuss topics such as traditional and alternative gender identities; gender socialization in childhood; transgender and nonbinary identities; the development of heterosexual, and LGBTQ+ identities; the relationship between gender and sexual orientation; social pressures and compulsory heterosexuality, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice; and alternative sexual practices and communities. Because gender and sexuality do not exist independently of other social identities, we will regularly consider the intersection of gender and sexuality with other identities (e.g., race, age, social class). This discussion-based course is designed to encourage deep, thoughtful analysis of issues surrounding gender and sexuality. This course counts towards the PSYC major/minor, the WGSS major, and WGSS/SXST minors (thematics: Sexual & Gendered Pluralities; QLGBT Perspectives).
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 110 |
| WGSS 400-01 |
Senior Seminar
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
All topics will draw upon the knowledge of the history and theories of feminism and will be interdisciplinary in nature. Prerequisite or co-requisite: 100, 200 and 300 or permission of the instructor.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 07 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-03 |
Gender, Race and Pop Culture
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-01. This course investigates the influence of popular culture on our perceptions of gender, sexuality, race, and class, emphasizing their interconnected nature. Students will engage with a diverse range of theories and methodologies from the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and apply them to popular culture content such as advertising, music and music videos, television, film, toys, and social media. The course posits that popular culture is never simply entertainment. Instead, it functions as a platform for constructing and communicating narratives and imagery that reflect and shape our understanding of race, ethnicity, femininities, masculinities, and sexualities as well as the broader social dynamics of these overlapping identities. These cultural representations exert influence on various aspects of everyday life, including consumer choices and our shifting perceptions of what we consider normal, acceptable, or aspirational. By honing critical thinking skills, students will learn to independently analyze and deconstruct layers of meaning in popular cultural products. Class meetings will be a mixture of lectures, group discussions, individual and group exercises, and films. Assignments will include active class participation, informal and formal writing and research assignments, class presentations, and an individual project exploring a popular culture topic of your choice.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| AMST 200-03 |
History of American Feminism
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 211-02 and WGSS 220-01. This course will emphasize such topics as the 19th century women's movement, the suffrage movement, radical and liberal feminism, and African-American feminism. We will pay particular attention to the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and to women's multiple and often conflicting responses to patriarchy and other forms of oppression.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| Courses Offered in ARTH |
| ARTH 205-04 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Art
Instructor: Ty Vanover
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-03. This course offers an introduction to modern European art from roughly 1800 to 1945 with a marked focus on the ways that art pictured, responded to, and subverted gender roles and conceptions of sexuality. In particular, we will examine how widespread social changes (urbanization, class formation), political developments (nationalism, socialism, fascism), and scientific developments (sexual science, psychoanalysis) incited shifts in how European artists conceived of their identities and positionalities. We will supplement canonical texts in feminist and gender theory with recent interventions in queer, trans, and post-colonial theory to arrive at a historically grounded understanding of gender and sex in modern art. Together, we will consider depictions of sex work in post-Impressionist art, sexual "primitivism" and the Black model, masculinity in Expressionist art, and trans approaches to modern art, among other topics, in order to rethink traditional art historical approaches to the modern canon. No prior experience in Art History or Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is required.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
WEISS 219 |
| ARTH 216-01 |
Goddesses, Prostitutes, Wives, Saints, and Rulers: Women and European Art 1200-1680
Instructor: Melinda Schlitt
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-01. How has the representation of women been constructed, idealized, vilified, manipulated, sexualized, and gendered during what could be broadly called the Renaissance in Europe? How have female artists, such as Sofanisba Anguissola (1532-1625) or Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), among others, represented themselves, men, and other familiar subjects differently from their male counterparts? How have female rulers, like Queen Elizabeth I of England, controlled their own political and cultural self-fashioning through portraiture? What role do the lives and writings of female mystics, like Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) or Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) play in depictions of their physical and spiritual identity? How was beauty and sexuality conceived through the imagery of mythological women, like Venus, or culturally ambivalent women, like courtesans and prostitutes? What kind of art did wealthy, aristocratic women or nuns pay for and use? Through studying primary texts, scholarly literature, and relevant theoretical sources, we will address these and other issues in art produced in Italy, France, Spain, Northern Europe, and England from 1200-1680. The course will be grounded in an understanding of historical and cultural contexts, and students will develop paper topics based on their own interests in consultation with the professor. A screening of the documentary film, A Woman Like That (2009), on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi and a trip to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. will take place during the second half of the semester. Offered every year.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
WEISS 221 |
| Courses Offered in EASN |
| EASN 306-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 317-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| Courses Offered in ENGL |
| ENGL 311-01 |
Chaucer's Women
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-02. Patient Griselda, sensual Alisoun, long-suffering Constance, the irrepressible Wife of Bath - in The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer provides a wide range of women who alternately uphold and challenge the medieval boundaries of femininity. In this class we will explore medieval conceptions of gender, sexuality, and authority by way of Chaucer's most memorable women, read alongside confessional manuals, scientific treatises, and religious tracts that provide insight into how medieval scholars conceptualized the differences between men and women.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 207 |
| Courses Offered in FMST |
| FMST 310-01 |
Fascism and Film: Propaganda, Sexualized Politics and Male Fantasies
Instructor: Sara Galli, Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ITAL 323-01 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. In this course, we will explore the narratives of fascism in cinema from the 1920s onwards. The infamous slogan "cinema is the most powerful weapon" was coined by fascist dictator Mussolini who understood how the media could create consensus and control. We will begin our analysis from the Italian cinema produced before and during fascism by directors Camerini, Gallone, and Brignone: their cinema revolves around a fantasy of masculinity associated with racial and ethnic superiority, in contrast to the feminine sphere of reproduction, pliability, and madness. We will then examine the shift to selective memories of victimization and rejection in postwar antifascist films by directors such as Bertolucci, De Sica, Wertmuller, Fellini, Cavani, Taviani, and Spielberg. These films characterize fascism through symbols of violence, immorality, and instability: from the policing of national and sexual boundaries to man-to-man bonding and the fear of homosexuality, and images of Nazi and fascist eroticism. Finally, through the analysis of works by directors such as Scola, Benigni, Bellocchio, and Tarantino, we will explore how cinema continues to intercept the cultural configurations that fascism has constructed of itself, the system(s) of power it has created, and the ur-fascist myths still present in western societies. The FLIC session in Italian (Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:30pm) is offered for Italian minors/majors, INBM majors, and INST majors who have completed ITAL 231 or equivalent.
Additional time slot: FLIC Italian sessions will be held from 11:30am - 12:30pm on Wednesdays for ITAL/INBM/INST students.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in HIST |
| HIST 211-01 |
Choreographing Gender and Sexuality in American Dance
Instructor: Emily Hawk
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-02. The 20th century witnessed profound change in American ideas about gender and sexuality, from the "separate spheres" ideology at the turn of the century, to the rise of multiple feminist waves, to the construction of the "closet" and the gay liberation movement, and beyond. Dance - as an embodied art form - provides a powerful lens for examining this evolution. This course interweaves the history of dance with the history of gender and sexuality to illuminate larger social, political, and cultural trends in American life. We will consider how dancers and choreographers used their bodies to absorb, contest, and reconstruct existing norms about masculinity, femininity, and queerness; we will also consider how critical and audience response to dance performance revealed shifting ideas about gender, sexuality, and the body. Topics include social dance and working-class leisure at the turn of the century; feminism and the early modern soloists; contested masculinity from modern dance to breakdance; and dance amid the AIDS epidemic. No prior experience with dance is necessary to enroll; this course welcomes all students interested in cultural history, intellectual history, and the history of gender and sexuality. Through reading and viewing assignments, class discussion and activities, and written assessments, students in this course will learn to analyze movement, write clearly and vividly about dance performance, conduct primary source research, and assess the historical significance of dance in American life and culture.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| HIST 211-02 |
History of American Feminism
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03 and WGSS 220-01. This course will emphasize such topics as the 19th century women's movement, the suffrage movement, radical and liberal feminism, and African-American feminism. We will pay particular attention to the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and to women's multiple and often conflicting responses to patriarchy and other forms of oppression.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| HIST 278-01 |
European Women's History
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. This course will explore the lives of European women in the modern period (1789 to the post WWII period). It looks at both rural and urban women, issues of class, family and motherhood as well as demands for social and political rights for women. The readings include primary sources such as housekeeping guides, novels and war propaganda as well as secondary sources such as biographies and anthropological studies.
Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| HIST 317-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 306-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| Courses Offered in ITAL |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Fascism and Film: Propaganda, Sexualized Politics and Male Fantasies
Instructor: Sara Galli, Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. In this course, we will explore the narratives of fascism in cinema from the 1920s onwards. The infamous slogan "cinema is the most powerful weapon" was coined by fascist dictator Mussolini who understood how the media could create consensus and control. We will begin our analysis from the Italian cinema produced before and during fascism by directors Camerini, Gallone, and Brignone: their cinema revolves around a fantasy of masculinity associated with racial and ethnic superiority, in contrast to the feminine sphere of reproduction, pliability, and madness. We will then examine the shift to selective memories of victimization and rejection in postwar antifascist films by directors such as Bertolucci, De Sica, Wertmuller, Fellini, Cavani, Taviani, and Spielberg. These films characterize fascism through symbols of violence, immorality, and instability: from the policing of national and sexual boundaries to man-to-man bonding and the fear of homosexuality, and images of Nazi and fascist eroticism. Finally, through the analysis of works by directors such as Scola, Benigni, Bellocchio, and Tarantino, we will explore how cinema continues to intercept the cultural configurations that fascism has constructed of itself, the system(s) of power it has created, and the ur-fascist myths still present in western societies. The FLIC session in Italian (Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:30pm) is offered for Italian minors/majors, INBM majors, and INST majors who have completed ITAL 231 or equivalent.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in JDST |
| JDST 240-01 |
Women, Gender and Judaism
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with RELG 240-01 and WGSS 201-02. This course examines issues of gender in Jewish religion and culture. Starting with the representation of women in the Bible and other classical Jewish texts, we study the highly differentiated gender roles maintained by traditional Jewish culture, and examine the role American feminism has played in challenging those traditional roles. We will also study gender issues in contemporary Israeli society, such as the politics of marriage and divorce, public prayer and gender in the military. Some knowledge of Judaism and Jewish history is helpful, but not required as a prerequisite for this course. This course is cross-listed as RELG 240.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| Courses Offered in MUAC |
| MUAC 211-01 |
Music, Gender, and Performance
Instructor: Ellen Gray
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01. Global divas, trans voices, and all girl bands: these are some of the topics we will consider. This course examines relationships between gender, music, and performance from an interdisciplinary perspective (music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, gender and queer theory, performance studies). We examine debates around issues of sex and gender and nature and culture through the lens of musical performance and experience and draw on musical examples from a diverse range of socio-cultural contexts from around the world. Some questions we consider include: To what extent is participation in particular musical scenes dictated by gendered conventions? What might the voice tell us about gender or sexuality? How might the gendered performances and the voices of musical celebrities come to represent or officially speak for particular publics? How does music shape our understanding of emotion, our experience of pleasure? Class discussions will focus on careful readings of the assigned texts and listening/viewing assignments. Majors across the College are welcome and no musical note reading skills are necessary.This course is cross-listed as WGSS 301.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
EASTC 411 |
| Courses Offered in PHIL |
| PHIL 261-04 |
Judith Butler
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 313-01 and WGSS 302-02. The work of Judith Butler on gender, sexuality, performativity, precarity, ability, grievability, and the self has been influential across the social sciences and humanities for the last 40 years. In this WID course, we seek to follow the development of these ideas in their work, and to think about the ways in which they can inform our understandings of both academic issues and contemporary social reality. The multidisciplinary impact of Butler's work is reflected in the multidisciplinary composition of the student body in this course, and it is my hope that we will learn not only from Butler, but from one another and our different disciplinary ways of knowing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 304 |
| Courses Offered in PSYC |
| PSYC 435-01 |
Gender Identities and Sexualities
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 306-01. In this advanced seminar, we will discuss current psychological theory and research relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual practices. The course is designed to acquaint you with some of the key issues, questions, and findings in this field, as well as to allow you to develop some of the critical skills needed to evaluate research findings. We will discuss topics such as traditional and alternative gender identities; gender socialization in childhood; transgender and nonbinary identities; the development of heterosexual, and LGBTQ+ identities; the relationship between gender and sexual orientation; social pressures and compulsory heterosexuality, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice; and alternative sexual practices and communities. Because gender and sexuality do not exist independently of other social identities, we will regularly consider the intersection of gender and sexuality with other identities (e.g., race, age, social class). This discussion-based course is designed to encourage deep, thoughtful analysis of issues surrounding gender and sexuality.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 110 |
| Courses Offered in RELG |
| RELG 240-01 |
Women, Gender and Judaism
Instructor: Andrea Lieber
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 240-01 and WGSS 201-02. This course examines issues of gender in Jewish religion and culture. Starting with the representation of women in the Bible and other classical Jewish texts, we study the highly differentiated gender roles maintained by traditional Jewish culture, and examine the role American feminism has played in challenging those traditional roles. We will also study gender issues in contemporary Israeli society, such as the politics of marriage and divorce, public prayer and gender in the military. Some knowledge of Judaism and Jewish history is helpful, but not required as a prerequisite for this course. This course is cross-listed as JDST 240.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| Courses Offered in SOCI |
| SOCI 313-01 |
Judith Butler
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PHIL 261-04 and WGSS 302-02. The work of Judith Butler on gender, sexuality, performativity, precarity, ability, grievability, and the self has been influential across the social sciences and humanities for the last 40 years. In this WID course, we seek to follow the development of these ideas in their work, and to think about the ways in which they can inform our understandings of both academic issues and contemporary social reality. The multidisciplinary impact of Butler's work is reflected in the multidisciplinary composition of the student body in this course, and it is my hope that we will learn not only from Butler, but from one another and our different disciplinary ways of knowing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 304 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-01 |
Mexican Women in Drug Trafficking
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Across the world and throughout history, statistics have shown that men commit more crimes than women. However, women's involvement with drug trafficking in Latin America has grown exponentially. The main goal of this class is to analyze Mexican women's diverse and complex participation in drug trafficking while developing writing skills in Spanish. Some of the questions the course will discuss are: How are women represented? What are women saying and experiencing? Does women's participation in drug trafficking challenge traditional rules and values? Are conventional notions of femininity and masculinity redefined by women's participation in the criminal world? Because it is a writing-intensive (WR) course, students will take a process approach to writing (drafting, peer reviewing, feedback, and editing). Students will read newspaper clips, testimonials, interviews, watch a film, and listen to narcocorridos.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 222 |