150. Humanities Seminars on Women and Gender. (3). (HU).
Section 004 - Multicultural Women Writers and Narratives of Education. This seminar will consider fiction and autobiographical writing by women from around the globe-for instance, from Zimbabwe, Australia, the Caribbean Islands, and the United States. Each text will offer a narrative of education, allowing us to examine the ways in which these texts explore the processes of identity formation and deformation as well as the process of becoming educated within formal institutions and through counter-memory and alternative knowledge. We will be posing questions about gendering of education; the relationship of bodies to educational regimes; and the ways in which narratives of education represent the crossing of all kinds of borders. First year students only. Cost:2 WL:1 (Smith)
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Section 005 - History and Legacy of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with History 197.006. (DuPuis)
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211/Hist. of Art 211. Gender and Popular Culture. (4). (HU).
See History of Art 211. (Simons)
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220/Nursing 220. Perspectives in Women's Health. (3). (SS).
In this course we will examine women's health issues across the lifespan, from feminist and socio-cultural perspectives. We will explore the social construction of women's sexuality, reproductive options, health care alternatives, and risks for physical and mental illness. Attention will be paid to historical, economic, and cultural factors which influence the physical and psychological well-being of women. (Boyd)
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240/Amer. Cult. 240. Introduction to Women's Studies. Open to all undergraduates. (4). (HU). (This course meets the Race and Ethnicity Requirement).
Designed as an introduction to the new feminist scholarship on women, this is an interdisciplinary course which acquaints students with key concepts and theoretical frameworks to analyze women's condition. We will explore how women's status has changed over time, but we will concentrate on the situation of contemporary American women. The course will not only provide students with an analysis of women's oppression, but will suggest strategies for ending sexual inequality.
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250/Religion 250/Budd. Studies 252. Religion and Culture: Feminine and Masculine Images of Religious Experience. (3). (HU).
See Religion 250. (Gómez)
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270. Women and the Law. (3). (SS).
Women and the Law covers selected topics in American constitutional and statutory law which have a special effect on women. The class focuses on ideals of sex equality and how they have been incorporated into the American legal system. Topics usually covered include constitutional equality, employment discrimination, family law, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, reproductive rights, pornography, and women in poverty.
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