This course will focus on power, politics, and representation as expressed through the plantation paradigm. What is the plantation? What are its residues? We will explore the idea of the plantation as a physical place, an idea, personal relationships, and a lasting economic system. Using plantation lullabies—narratives, films, andimages developed in the Americas, but primarily in the US, we will juxtapose distinctions and intersections in these stories. We will interrogate the power of storytelling conventions and constructions of history in several forms while producing our own histories. We will also consider how our own identities (sexual, racial, gender, national, and class) inform and influence our reactions and relationships with various texts and our environment. Please be advised that this class will expose you to ideas, themes, language, etc. of an explicit nature,which may be uncomfortable to you. LA, NA

By examining the transition from girlhood to womanhood, this course uses various genres and contexts, to engage with global female coming-of-age experiences. We will use ideas on reading and representation to shape our engagement with these texts, while discussing how identity affects the types of texts produced and consumed. Please recognize that you will be exposed to ideas, themes, and language that may be explicit and challenge your position/s in terms of race, sexuality, gender, nation, and class. LA

An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include: work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender relations and images of women and gender in literature, religion, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. This course includes lecture and small discussion groups led by teaching assistants. Formerly WMST 50. Required for the major. SS, US

PREREQUISITE: WMST 101.
Introduces U.S. and international feminist theorizing on debates over gender-based oppression. Gives majors and minors tools to pursue academic work in women’s studies and to understand the relation between concepts, activism, and change. Formerly WMST 52. Required for the major. PH

This course introduces students to the broad range of disciplinary perspectives used by the field of sexuality studies to study, teach and create knowledge about human sexuality in its various functions and forms. SS, HS, US, NA

This course examines the ways in which gender and sexual identities are represented and consumed in popular culture. Students in the course will develop and use critical, analytic skills necessary for understanding the ways in which movies, television, music, and popular media such as fashion mazagines promote and at the same time contest dominant ideological assumptions about gender and sexual identities. Through a variety of reading and writing assignments, students will have the opportunity to develop basic critical writing and reading skills. Formerly WMST 131. VP, US

This course seeks to familiarize students with scholarly debates on the importance of gender as a category of analysis, while gaining a greater sense of the African past. SS, HS, BN, GL

Works by French women authors read in translation along with pertinent theoretical texts. Course content will vary, incorporating texts from different periods and genres. Formerly WMST 43. LA, NA

A survey of women’s participation in scientific fields and knowledge production through history in various cultures around the world. A discussion of the nature of science, women’s exclusion, and strategies used to change or subvert the system. Formerly WMST 78/ANTH 78. SS, CI, EE

WMST 101 or permission of instructor. This course looks at women’s and men’s different experiences of economic, political, and cultural globalization. Students will be introduced to recent debates over the meaning of globalization as well as historical perspectives on the uneven development of global systems of production and communication. We will discuss global feminisms and case studies of “gendered globalization” in the United States, Eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Formerly WMST 81/INTS 81. SS, GL

This course will acquaint students with how African-American women have been depicted (and have depicted themselves) in 20th and 21st century media. We will examine representations of African American women in several aspects of culture including: film, art, print, television, theatre and music. The central questions of the course hope to go beyond “good and bad” images but to a broader historical understanding of the shifting meanings of ‘blackness’and ‘femaleness’. Formerly WMST 85/AFAM 85. VP, US

This class focuses on the history of women in African and Middle Eastern colonial and post-colonial legal systems. It examines “native”/customary law, Islamic law, and human and women’s rights. SS, HS, BN, GL

Topics of particular interest to individual faculty members. Each course will study in depth a significant problem or issue in Women's Studies. Formerly WMST 95

Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. This course focuses on feminist perspectives on imperialism; the effects of imperialism on colonized and European women; imperialism and masculinity; women’s participation in anti-impenalist movements; and the legacies of imperialism for feminism today. Formerly WMST 93. HS, NA

Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. Explores the cultural foundations of western romantic love in courtly literature of the French Middle Ages. Songs of troubadour poets and chivalric tales of knights and ladies will be read against amorous compositions by medieval women authors and further compared with contemporary manifestations of love in the modern world (modern song lyrics, greeting cards, the singing telegram, popular fiction, film). Literary texts will be studied in relation to pertinent historical and art historical materials. Formerly WMST 94A. LA, WB

Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. How women’s spirituality interacts with officially-sanctioned religious institutions in a range of cultural contexts and how it forges alternatives to those traditions. Formerly WMST 97. LA, US, GL

This course uses films, novels, and essays to engage with various notions of activism (as represented in art and social justice organizations) at play in hemispheric America. LA, PH, BN

This course uses films, novels, and essays to move beyond sun, sand, and sex representations of Caribbean women to examine how they negotiate imperial and national definitions of their place. LA, PH, BN

This course will examine the role of women of color as grassroots activists, leaders and thinkers in the new social and community movements of the postwar period. Starting with the political movements of the 1960s such as the American Indian Movement, Chicano Movement and Black Power Movement, the course will examine the racial and gender dynamics shaping women’s participation. We will look at specific examples of comtemporary organizing among women of color in the areas of: health, prison reform, education, the environment, domestic violence and unions (among others). We will seek to understand the ways in which women of color organize on behalf of themselves and others for social justice. Formerly WMST 68. SS, US, NA

Explores how Americans from 1600 to the present have defined what is masculine and what is feminine and how they have constructed their identities around those definitions. Formerly WMST 75/HIST 75. HS, US, NA

Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. This course takes a feminist political economy perspective on debates over current women’s and men’s health issues of international concern, including HIV/AIDS, population control, reproductive technology, childbirth, and sexual violence. We also discuss theories of “the body” in relation to health, the medical industry, science, and religion. Formerly WMST 88/INTS 88. SS, BN, GL

Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. Supervised internships designed to provide experience working in local, state, and national organizations concerned with women's issues. Readings and research paper required. Comprises 2-4 credit hours. Interested students should contact Suzanne Hahn, Administrative Assistant, Women's Studies, 962-3908, prior to the beginning of the semester. Formerly WMST 190. EE

Intensive reading and research in a student's chosen area of interest under faculty supervision. Results in a written report. Open to Women's Studies majors and other qualified undergraduate and graduate students. Permission of the Chair and faculty member required. Formerly WMST 199

Prerequisiste: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. This course focuses on two related issues in the effort to understand and assess the prospects of the emerging global movement for equality for sexual minorities. First, we compare the histories and practices of local- and national-level queer movements, looking particularly at how communities in South Africa, Thailand, China, Native America, Mexico, and elsewhere negotiate between “imported” sexual identities (that is, Euro-American notions of gay, lesbian, or queer) and indigenous identifications. Second, we examine the international organizations and networks that have emerged to link these diverse communities, focusing especially on the notions and practices of “human rights,” global feminism,” “gay pride,” as well as the issues of HIV/AIDS and sexual and non-sexual “gay tourism.” Spring. Formerly WMST 102/INTS 102. SS, BN, GL

This course examines the nature of science as a cultural practice, one that has been historically strongly gendered and racialized. Cutural production of knowledge will be examined historically from a feminist perspective, and we will consider the histories, paths, and potential of scientific pursuits. Formerly WMST 136/ANTH 136. SS, GL

The course combines several fields, analyzing the construction of gender through science, science fiction and film. Students are exposed to science issues as they are represented inpopular media. The course is interdisciplinary, combining science studies, anthropology, gender studies, and film studies. Students will be exposed to issues of science as they are represented in popular media, and learn to analyze them critically. Students will learn and reinforce basic skills of writing through short summaries of read materials, as well as longer opinion pieces. Oral communication will take the form of public speaking, debating, and discussions. The classs will consist of lectures, film viewing, and discussions. Formerly WMST 137/COMM 117. SS, NA

Looking specifically at the social and cultural construcion of women's bodies, this course considers the ways in which biological difference is imbued with social significance. SS

Prerequisite: WMST 102 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality, and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, or strategy for bringing about social justice in the United States. Formerly WMST 153. SS, US

Women and Creativity will present an overview of the variety and diversity of contemporary American women's experiences of creative expressions. We explore how women have been historically excluded, silenced and minimized by institutionalized notions of creativity and art. Pre-req: WMST 101.

This course examines how feminist, HIV, sex work, and LGBT activists have used, criticized and transformed the United Nations’ human rights discourses in struggles against sexual oppression. Prerequisite: WMST 101 and two other WMST/INTS courses or consent of instructor. SS, BN, GL

Students in the course will develop and use critical, analytic skills to analyze the representation of women in classical and contemporary Hollywood films. Through a variety of reading and writing assignments, students will have the opportunity to develop basic critical writing and reading skills. Formerly WMST 143/COMM 156. VP

Designed to encourage independent thought and research among outstanding undergraduate majors in Women's Studies. Students must take WMST 99 or WMST 99H. Writing and completion of an honors essay. Students must plan their project with a faculty advisor and secure permission from the Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies. Guidelines and forms for initial contract are available in the Women's Studies Office. Permission of the Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies and a faculty member is required. Spring. Formerly WMST 98

Students taking Honors in Women’s Studies must take this course Fall semester. A senior seminar for Women's Studies majors and other interested juniors and seniors. Topics will vary each semester. Check course listing for the semester in question.Prerequisite: WMST 101. Formerly WMST 099. CI

This graduate-level course will provide an introduction to feminist literary theory, focusing on feminist writings from France (in translation) and their sources in psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. Anglo-American counterparts and adaptations of French theorists in the U.S. will also be treated. Formerly WMST 225/FREN 225

Explores the complex interaction between Women's Studies, Feminist Studies and Gender Studies as these fields have evolved within and across academic disciplines,intersecting with issues of race, class, ethnicity, masculinity, sexualorientation and with practices of queer theory and cultural studies. Formerly WMST 299

WMST 796
INDEPENDENT READING AND RESEARCH FOR GRADUATES
Staff 
Intensive reading and research in a student's chosen area of interest under faculty supervision. Results in a written report. Permission of the Chair and a faculty member required.

WMST 890 TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES Staff

This course allows faculty in WMST to offer graduate-level courses on special topics pertinent to their current research. Formerly WMST 290

This exploratory seminar will expose students to the complex dynamics of race and gender and how these have helped shape the American city. It will examine both the historical record as well as works of literature, film and music to probe the manifold ways gender and ethnic identity have contributed to the culture of urban life in the US. The seminar will be conducted in an engaging and exploratory manner, with an emphasis on student creativity and involvement. Together, we will explore the different ways women and men perceive, understand and use urban space and the built environment, and examine topics ranging from suburbanization, “white flight” and the “urban crisis” of the 1960s, to hip hop culture, graffiti and tagging, and the multiple meanings of “the blood.”
Formerly WMST 006E/PLAN 006E

Reflects on the experience, significance, and influence of the stage and motion picture actress in the modern era, analyzing her representation and reception in memoirs, biographies, fiction, and film. Formerly WMST 006M/SLAV 006M

This course examines social differentation between men and women with attention to the extent, causes and consequences of gender inequality, and the changes in gender roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. Formerly WMST 024/SOCI 024. SS

This course introduces literary and cultural topics such as the AIDS crisis, gender stereotypes, aging in queer communities, racial politics and gay/lesbian sexuality, and representations of political activism and queer politics. Formerly WMST 22Q/ENGL 22Q. LA, US

A socio-historical study of the influence of work, leisure, politics, family, race, economics, education, and perceived roles on women’s participation in sports. Formerly WMST 63/EXSS 63. SS

This course addresses issues of women and music from three distinct perspectives: global practice, historical evolutions, and local context. In all cases, the subject matter is anchored in the music that women created, performed, and presented, so students will be exposed to varied, diverse, and thought-provoking repertories drawn from Western and non-Western musics, and ranging from “art” to “popular.” Comparisons will also be made with the other arts, issues will be viewed in cultural, social and political contexts, and methodologies will necessarily draw upon a range of disciplines. Thus this course deals with broader aesthetic issues; it takes a comparative approach between Western and non-Western repertories; and it is by definition culturally diverse in several senses of the term. Formerly WMST 48/MUSC 48. VP, NA, GL

A comparison of men and women as political actors at the mass and elite levels in America. Topics include the "gender gap", the women's movement, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. Formerly WMST 72/POLI 72

Examines the role of lesbians, gays and bisexuals as political actors in the United States, both as individuals and collectively as a social movement. Formerly WMST 74/POLI 73. SS, US

This course looks at the problem of violence against women – from psychological violence to battering and death – and the legal system’s responses. Victim support services are also critically examined. Formerly WMST 76/POLI 76 . PH, EE, NA

This course explores the place of women in the Middle Ages from two crucial standpoints. It examines the representation of women and the construct of gender in the Middle Ages. It also examines to what extent women actually participated in the economic, political, religious, and cultural life of the Middle Ages. The course materials will be drawn from a variety of sources, including courtly literature, love poetry, juridical, theological, and medical texts, didactic treaties, mysticism, illuminations and sculpture. Formerly WMST 66/GERM 66

Examines multiple relationships between communication and gender. Emphasizes how communication creates gender and power roles and how communicative patterns reflect, sustain and alter social conceptions of gender. Formerly WMST 56/COMM 24. CI

Gender, race and class are examined in terms of the spatial patterns of everyday life, regional patterns and global patterns. Feminist ideas about social diversity have had an enormous impact on the social sciences in the last two decades. The discipline of geography is no exception to this trend. This course will provide an introduction to active debates on the ways in which “space” and “place” contribute to deeper understanding of social diversity and social change. Formerly WMST 125/GEOG 125. SS, __

Course examines law, religion, medicine, social practices, and ideologies in the lives of women in ancient Greece, from Homer to Hellenistic Egypt, using literature, art, epigraphy. Formerly WMST 51A/CLAS 51A. LA, NA, WB

This course examines the life of women in ancient Rome, from the first beginnings of the organized community in Rome through the early Empire, a period of about 900 years. Also explores aspects of the lives of women in provinces governed by Rome. Formerly WMST 54A/CLAS 53

Exploration of gender constructs, what it meant to be a woman or a man in antiquity, as revealed in literary, historical and archaeological sources. Readings from Homer, Euripides, Plato, Ovid, Virgil, Juvenal, Petronius, and other ancient authors. Formerly WMST 42/CLAS 42. HS, NA, WB

This course has three major purposes. First, the course will explore excerpts from the broad range of teachings concerning issues of gender and sexuality that have emerged throughout the Western Christian tradition. Second, in order to place these teachings in context, the course will also introduce major themes in the history of Christianity in the West. Finally, the course will focus on questions of rhetoric, examining the specific types of argumentation used by various authors and the forms of evidence these authors city in order to support their moral and political positions. Formerly WMST 83/RELI 81. HS

A study of women's roles and influence in the Late Antique and Byzantine world, through analysis of contemporary Byzantine texts by and about women, historical testimonies, and works of art. Formerly WMST 45/CLAS 45. HS, BN

An examination and exploration of women's changing rolesand influence, onstage and behind the scenes, in the history of opera. Formerly WMST 89/MUSC 91. NA

Introduction to feminist aesthetics and film by examining the representation of women in German cinema from Expressionism to the present; subtitled films. English is the language of instruction. Formerly WMST 44/GERM 44. VP, NA

This course will examine the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present day, and will explore how gender shaped this journey. This course also examines critical scholarship in women’s studies, Jewish Studies, and American Studies that has not been previously taught at UNC. This course is especially important in course development for modern Jewish life and American Jewish history at UNC. Approved to fulfill AS western historical. Formerly WMST 53/AMST 53/JWST 53. HS, NA

This course will analyze the representation of women in Western Art, placing special emphasis on works made by women. Formerly WMST 64/ART 64. CI, VP, NA

The female experience in preindustrial Europe (from Ancient Greece, to the Industrial Revolution). Formerly WMST 58/HIST 58. HS, NA, WB

When the first factories opened in England in the late eighteenth century, they inaugurated a process of economic change that has radically transformed the human experience. In this class, we will study how these changes have affected the lives of European women. Formerly WMST 59/HIST 59. HS, NA

Introduction to recent literature, theoretical questions and methodological issues concerning the study of women in Africa. Topics include women in traditional society, and the impact of colonial experience and modernization on African women. Formerly WMST 61/AFRI 61. SS, BN

The course examines the interrelations between changes in warfare, the military system, and the gender order in Europe from medieval to modern time, and its perception and reflection in international movies. Crosslisting pending.

Intensive study, focused on gender issues, of a single writer, group, movement, or period. Junior, senior elective. For English majors, satisfies group F requirement. Formerly WMST 150/ENGL 50. LA

This course traces the development of the woman question in tsarist Russia, how the Soviet regime affected women's lives, and how women's experiences compare to the Party's claim of equality. Formerly WMST 60/HIST 61. HS, BN

Introduction to feminist theory and its implications for the study and practice of political theory. Topics: Women in feminist critiques of the western political tradition, schools of feminist political theory. Formerly WMST 67/POLI 67. CI, PH, NA

An examination of the individual and collective experiences of Black women in America from slavery to the present and the evolution of feminist consciousness. Formerly WMST 65/AFAM 66. SS

In this course we will examine the facts about the life of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. We will spend the first three weeks studying the ancient sources, which are themselves often very biased, particularly the Roman ones. Cleopatra soon became the locus for a lot of Roman anxiety about women, monarchy, the lure of the east. The rest of the semester will be devoted to looking at how post-classical societies have depicted Cleopatra, often reinventing her as a mirror-image of their own preoccupations or as a receptacle for their own fears and frustrations. We will examine how Cleopatra has been portrayed in literature, art advertising, and movies. There are no prerequisites. Formerly WMST 69/CLAS 69/CMPL 69. LA, NA

Moral issues of equal rights and justice; sex role stereotypes; equal opportunity and reverse discrimination; abortion; philosophers' theories of feminism. Formerly WMST 46/PHIL 46. PH, US

Women and gender in Latin American history; examines the experiences of women and gender relations in Latin American Societies from pre-Columbian times to the present. Formerly WMST 80/HIST 80. HS, BN

This course provides an overview of language and power studies. Issues: sexist and sex-neutral language; languages of subcultures defined by gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity; hate speech; "politically correct" language. Formerly WMST 71/LING 72/ANTH 84

Implications of the relationship between women and leisure from a lifestyle perspective. Analysis of the changing role of women and changing leisure concepts from a feminist perspective. Formerly WMST 101/RECR 101. SS

This class will examine contemporary artistic production by international artists that engage, question and challenge ideas of the body. Theoretical readings about art and the body will be complemented by examining the work of contemporary artists who are known for their images of the body. We will look at digital media artists as well as artists who use traditional media such as photography, mixed media, sculpture and installation. Crosslisting pending.

The purpose of this course is to gain an understanding of the role of women in U.S. history from the colonial period to the present. We will discuss the problem of establishing standards by which we can measure women’s position in American society and their achievements in American history.
We will assess women’s contributions to American life and will discuss how they affected change and how historical events influenced them. We will investigate the ways in which geographic location, class, ethnicity, race, urbanization, technology, and war have affected the political, social, economic, and intellectual lives of American women. We will also assess the role that organized feminism has played in improving the status of women. Formerly WMST 62/HIST 62. HS, NA

Examines the importance of feminist theory across the curriculum. Topics include language and linguistics; psychoanalysis; anthropology, and myth; women's labor, production, and reproduction; history, political science, and religious studies; and literature, predominantly French and English. Formerly WMST 90B/ENGL 90B. LA

While some people sense some dim consciousness of the beyond, some claim to be eyewitnesses to the ultimate truths, to have a direct pipeline to the divine. Women mystics often gained power and authority as prophets and living saints, or even “the secretaries of God,” but frequently ecclesiastical authorities suspected or censured them as well. The treatises and letters that come down to us provide remarkable testimony to the embedded beliefs about gender roles, ascetic practices, attitudes toward the body, psychological and somatic experience, and popular devotions. This course explores the rich variety and diversity fo female mystical experience in the West from the thirteenth through the seventeenth century. We will approach speculative thought, prophecy, calls to action, as well as “transcendental” experiences through the works of Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite Porète, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Genoa, Angela of Foligno, Teresa of Avila, and others. Formerly WMST 194/RELI 194. PH

An examination of the works of selected 20th-century European and American women writers, their development of experimental narrative techniques, and their contributions to the evolution of a women’s tradition in literature. Discussions will focus on the concept of “women’s writing” and its characteristics in terms of subject matter, themes and structure. Readings are in English and include works by Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, Toni Morrison, Christa Wolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector and Maria Luisa Bombal. Formerly WMST 96/CMPL 96. LA, NA

Southern Women Writers examines thematic and stylistic aspects in the fiction, drama, and poetry of major authors, and explores recurrent motifs in works by lesser known writers, particularly those from North Carolina. Formerly WMST 87/ENGL 87. LA, NA

Authors’ use of narrative techniques to create the separation between heroines and their fictional societies and sometimes also to alienate readers from the heroines. Austen, Flaubert, Ibsen, Arishima, Tanizaki, Abe. Formerly WMST 77/CMPL 84/ASIA 80. LA

This course examines Japanese literature and culture through fiction and poetry by women. Explores ideas in contemporary feminist criticism in Japan and the West as means to read Japanese women’s writing. Formerly WMST 82/JAPN 81.

Examines Japanese literature and culture through fiction and poetry by women. Explores ideas in contemporary feminist criticism in Japan and the West as means to read Japanese women's writing. Formerly WMST 84/JAPN 84. LA, BN

Survey of American women's time allocation patterns, labor force participation trends, earnings, occupational selection, and economic history. Formerly WMST 91/ECON 91/AMST 65. CI, EE, NA

Explores the possibilities, problems, and limitations of work for women during the Victorian period. Formerly WMST 92/CMPL 92. LA

An examination of women as media producers, subjects, and audiences with a focus on current practices and possibilities for change. Formerly WMST 115/JOMC 115. SS

This course has two primary purposes. First, it will introduce students to important contemporary gender theory, particularly concerning various forms of sexual and nonconformity. We will begin with an exploration of Foucault’s formative texts and then examine major themes in contemporary gender and queer theory. Second, we will consider various applications of these theoretical resources to the religion. We will read a number of recent texts utilizing gender theory to excavate aspects of religion in contemporary culture, then we will turn to focus on a particular significant (and under-analyzed) theme in religious studies scholarship, the long scholarly portrayal of the shaman or magician as a sexual deviant. Formerly WMST 182/RELI 182.

Participatory development theory and practice in Africa and the U.S. are in the context of other intervention strategies and with special attention to culture and gender. Permission required. Formerly WMST 130/AFRI 130/AFAM 130

Focuses on gender theory and women’s experience. Formerly WMST 138/ANTH 137/FOLK 137

Cross-cultural perspectives on the social uses of gender distinctions. Focus on women's lives outside the U.S. and Europe. Comparison with students' social context. Formerly WMST 140/ANTH 140. SS

Explores the social and cultural patterns and practices that differentially influence health and illness among women and men. Formerly WMST 141/ANTH 141. SS, GL

Conceptualizations of gender, race, and class and how, separately and in combination, they are interpreted by the wider society. Emphasis on how black and working class women make sense of their experiences at work and within the family. Formerly WMST 129/SOCI 129

Study of major American women writers from the seventeenth century into the twentieth century. Formerly WMST 86/ENGL 86. LA, NA

This course will focus on a limited number of topics related to the representation of women and/or the status of women as producers of art. Formerly WMST 151/ART 151

Exploration of gender relations in past and gendered archaeological practice in present, including relevance of gender to general social theory in archaeology, and development of research designs addressing gender meanings and practices, childhood, identity, sexuality. Formerly WMST 158/ANTH 158. HS, WB

This course will make an in depth analysis of one or more of the issues in the marginalization, inequalities and injustices of gender, race and class. The course will look at how these groups have been marginalized, disparaged, or neglected within classical philosophical traditions, in an effort to recuperate, challenge, and rectify the injustices of the past. Critique is essential for this project. Our critiques will lead to reconstructions, but also will serve to generate distinct questions and perspectives for understanding gender, race and class, their commonalities as well as their differences. Formerly WMST 165/PHIL 165. US

Examines in greater depth and complexity current issues in feminist political theory. Topics: theories of subjectivity and solidarity; feminist post-structuralist and post-marxist thinking; gender in the public sphere. Formerly WMST 164/POLI 164. CI, PH, NA

Spanning the ancient, medieval, and modern West, this course explores normative and non-normative female sexualities, ideas about female bodies, and the regulation of female sexuality by families, religions, and states. Formerly WMST 79/HIST 79. HS, NA

A study of Russian women's writing after World War II. Includes both fictional and publicistic works analyzed in their socio-political context. An introduction to Russian women's studies. Formerly WMST 186/RUSS 186. LA, BN

The past two decades have seen an explosion of writing on questions of nation and nationalism. Yet, questions of gender and race have been seriously neglected in much of this work. This is the more surprising because new historical research shows clearly that all nations and nationalisms are invented, gendered and raced. The course explores this growing body of gendered research by focusing on problems of national belonging, citizenship, state and nation formation, and national iconography.

The interdisciplinary course introduces students to the growing body of literature in history, political and social sciences on gender and welfare by focusing on problems of the sexual division of labor and its importance for social policy, the work-family balance, and social citizenship in a comparative perspective. The course is intended to broaden and deepen our perspectives of modern welfare states by focusing on the relations among family, work and welfare.

This course explores the lives of women in the Middle East and how they have changed over time. Focus will change each year. Formerly WMST 195/HIST 195/ASIA 195. HS, BN

An interdisciplinary consideration of women's roles, behavior, and ideas in the religious life of Americans from 1636 to 1982. Formerly WMST 160/HIST 160

Explores through performance contemporary poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and feminist thought by women of color in the United States. GC Cultural Diversity perspective. BA-level Aesthetic Perspective. Formerly WMST 146/COMM 160

Permission of one of the instructors. Examines performance as a means of interpreting and conveying oral history texts. Performance-centered approach to underscore gender distinctions in the telling and making of history; to enhance students' identification with narrators as historical agents; and to promote public presentation and discussion of historical research. Formerly WMST 173/COMM 161/HIST 173/FOLK 161

Using a lecture-discussion format, this course provides an overview of women's health-specific interests as family and community members, as patients, and as health professionals. Implications for health education practice as well as opportunities for future research are emphasized. Permission of instructor. Formerly WMST 161/HBHE 160

An exploration of the distinctive themes in southern women's lives, using the evidence of history and literature. Formerly WMST 168/HIST 168. HS, NA

This course explores the experiences of African-American women from slavery through the seventies. We will examine broad themes such as labor, family, community, sexuality, and religion. In the process we will consider the diverse experiences of black women within the context of United States history. Readings consist of a combination of historical documents (narratives, songs, newspaper articles, etc.) as well as articles and monographs on selected issues. Formerly WMST 169/HIST 169/AFAM 169. HS, NA

This course introduces students to the study of Native American women through the perspectives of anthropology, history, and autobiography. Fulfills an Arts & Sciences Western Historical perspective and the Cultural Diversity requirement. Formerly WMST 151A/HIST 151A. HS, NA

This is an interactive world wide web-based course on reproductive physiology, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases for students without prior health professions training. The course will be supplemented by 2-3 class discussions and presentations by invited speakers, and one clinic visit. Course objectives include: having a general understanding of reproductive anatomy and physiology; knowing available contraceptive methods, their advantages, disadvantages, and failure rates; and knowing the characteristics of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. Formerly WMST 103/MHCH 103

A study of the inscription of femininity in texts by Spanish and Spanish American authors. Readings will be available in Spanish or in English translation. Lectures will be conducted in English. Formerly WMST 120/SPAN 120

The course combines traditional anthropological concern with family and kinship and the meaning of women’s reproduction and genetic inheritance in contemporary modern society. Debates in the field of kinship, reproductive technologies and genetics will be examined in depth; ethical dillemmas. Formerly WMST 166/ANTH 166. SS

Examination of women in the urban environment and economic development process in the developing world. Formerly WMST 142/PLAN 142

This course explores literature, performance art, film, and photography by Latinas and Latinos whose works may be described as “queer” and that question terms and norms of cultural dominance. Formerly WMST 152/ENGL 155. VP, NA

This course explores Latina/o literature about photography in relation to photography by queer Latina/o artists and, through this double focus, poses certain questions about identity, subjectivity, and culture. Formerly WMST 180/ENGL 180. VP, NA

Explores images of women pictured in the folk imagination and traces those conceptions through created literature. Broadly based in folklore, literature, history and classics. Interdisciplinary approach reveals how writers are influenced by the folk cultures that surround them. Formerly WMST 185/ENGL 185/FOLK 185. LA

This course explores selected health issues confronting African-American women and identifies race, gender, age, and class variables that impact health. Formerly WMST 276/SOWO276

Seminar in selected topics in feminist analysis of social life, with materials drawn from a global range of societies. Formerly WMST 215/ANTH 215

Directed readings on selected topics in the comparative or global history of women. Formerly WMST 222/HIST 222

Readings in contemporary feminist theory, focused especially on theories that address the construction, writing and general practice of history. Formerly WMST 228/HIST 228

Readings on the historical study of gender and on definitions of femininity and masculinity in different historical contexts. Formerly WMST 218/HIST 218

This course explores a range of feminist theory and investigates visual images (e.g., paintings, films, rock videos, advertisements) through issues of gender, race, class and sexual identity. Formerly WMST 251/ART 251

This seminar will deal in depth with the nature of gender cross culturally and the ways social comprehension of gender, gender status, and gender relationships impinge upon the differential experience of health and sickness in men and women from both a contemporary and historical perspective. Formerly WMST 253/ANTH 253

This graduate-level reading course will cover selected topics in the history of European women, c. 500-1500. Topics will include: holy virginity and religious life; sexuality; work; courtly love; the different experiences of women of different social strata (i.e., aristocratic vs. urban vs. peasant); and analysis of changes in women's status over time. Formerly WMST 223/HIST 223

A survey of feminist approaches to politics and political inquiry. Formerly WMST 266/POLI 266

Readings in European women's history for graduate students. Formerly WMST 220/HIST 220

Seminar in recent developments in feminist philosophy. Topics include feminist critiques of and constructive approaches toward ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of science. Formerly WMST 209/PHIL 275

Insight and remedies on issues in education; curriculum, counseling and interaction patterns in the classroom; structures and leadership as well as fundamental assumptions can perpetuate racism, sexism and class divisions. Formerly WMST 265/EDUC 276

Reframes views of education leadership and policy, program, practice and theory, demonstrating ways to incorporate gendered analyses. Uses feminist and critical theory to identify research, policy and practice to address gender inequity. Formerly WMST 267/EDUC 277

Reviews theory and research on variation in men's and women's gender roles, with emphasis on industrialized societies and women's roles. Formerly WMST 231/SOCI 231

This graduate seminar will explore theoretical and practical points of contact between feminism, film and television using psychoanalysis, narrative analysis, ideological analysis, and cultural studies. Formerly WMST 358/COMM 358

Reading in American women's history for graduate students. Formerly WMST 221/HIST 221

A research seminar on the history of women in Western Europe and the United States. Formerly WMST 387/HIST 387