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253. Special Topics. (3). (Excl).
A maximum of seven credits of WS 252 and 253 may be counted toward graduation.
Section 001 - Affirmative Action. There is a great concern that all
the rights gained in the sixties are now being eroded by legal challenges
to affirmative action rules. Indeed there is a hue and cry that there is
now reverse discrimination and that preferential treatment is illegal. The
African American community in particular appears to be greatly alarmed by
these challenges and is looking for ways to respond to these set backs.
This course will address the dilemma of the response and attempt to shape
some thinking about the fight for affirmative action. The cases at the University
of Michigan and the University of Texas will be examined not for their legal
construct but for their meaning as a social construct. In addition proposition
209 will be discussed as an important watershed in the in the anti-civil
rights movement. The anti-affirmative action forces, and the dilemma of
African-Americans and other minorities against affirmative action will be
seriously addressed. Some attention will be paid to Justice Clarence Thomas
and Mr. Ward Connelly two major figures against affirmative action. The
objective is to begin the process of cogent action and to develop the language
to articulate affirmative action as a right and not a benefit. MW 4:00-5:30pm.
(Nesha Haniff)
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315/English 315. Women and Literature.
(3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.
See English 315.
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342. Gender and Society: Hierarchies
in Social Organization. WS 240. (3). (Excl).
Section 001 - Sex and Gender in Japan. For Fall Term, 1998, this section
is offered jointly with Anthropology
302. (Robertson)
Section 002 - Race, Gender and Health: The Epidemic of HIV, AIDS in
the African American and Hispanic Communities. At present the HIV spread
in the United States is highest in the African American and Hispanic communities.
Hispanic and African American men and women represent the highest incidence
of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS in the US. This epidemic in these
communities is at present unabated for many reasons. This is a very complex
issue and very many factors affect the current status of this epidemic only
some of which will be addressed here. This course will examine gender relations
- what are the dynamics of the relationship between men and women in which
men and women put each other at risk for HIV infection? What contributes
to such behavior? How does one deal with the HIV infection and not drug
addiction? Is it possible to reduce HIV infection without such intervention?
And what about homophobia in these communities, and poverty and the whole
culture of health? Finally the issue of race - how does race shape the current
level of the epidemic? And more importantly how does it affect the solution
in reducing the epidemic? What can be learned from the gay community who
was able to effectively reduce the spread of HIV in their community? The
lessons to solutions certainly seems to correlate very strongly with race
and gender. MW 1:00-2:30. (Nesha Haniff)
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345. Third World Women.
WS 240. (3). (Excl).
Section 002 - Women of Color and Feminist Criticism. The departure
point for this course is the idea that the categories "third world
women" or "women of color" designate political and intellectual
constituencies within feminism, and not biological ones. With this in mind,
we will examine the impact that such a constituency has made on dominant
EuroAmerican feminisms. By tracing cross-cultural and international debates,
the course will address such themes as women and global political economy,
the role of imperialism in the production of knowledge, racism and the category
of woman, and the tensions created by the problem of difference. Drawing
from historical, theoretical, and literary sources, the course will situate
issues concerning minority women at the center of a more complex approach
to feminist criticism. This course meets both the interdisciplinary and
women of color requirement for the Women's Studies concentration. (Mathur)
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360/Hist. 368/Amer. Cult. 342.
History of the Family in the U.S. (4). (SS).
See History 368. (Morantz-Sanchez)
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370/Hist. 370. Women in American
History to 1870. (3). (Excl).
See History 370.
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427/Anthro. 427/CAAS 427. African Women.
One course in African Studies, anthropology, or women's studies.
(3). (SS).
See CAAS 427. (E.P. Renne)
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440. Issues and Controversies in the
New Scholarship on Women. WS 240 and one 340-level course. (3). (Excl).
Section 001 - Feminist Methods in the Field. Research methods taught
in academe have serious limitations in the field. Feminist researchers face
great obstacles, politically, socially and culturally. The current approaches
to the work of conducting research on women, particularly on Third World
women must be re-examined. This course will focus on the praxis of conducting
research on abortion in countries where it is illegal. The course will place
a heavy emphasis on the conduct of the research itself, through the students'
participation in carrying out research in such countries. The class will
be transformed into allegorical countries, presenting the students with
all the real life problems of the field. Within this context, both research
methods and theory will be analyzed and new methods and ideas developed.
Students will not have a choice of topic for research. All students will
have to conduct research on abortion in these allegorical countries, for
it is the study of women's reproductive choice that is at the heart of feminism.
Tues. 3-6 (Nesha Haniff)
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471/AAPTIS 495/Hist. 546/Religion
496. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Islamdom. Students
should preferably have had one course in Islamic Studies. (3). (Excl).
See AAPTIS 495. (Babayan)
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