WMST 163/EXSS 163
AMERICAN WOMEN IN SPORT
M-F 8:00 - 9:30 AM
A sociohistorical study of the influence of work, leisure, politics, family, race, economics, education, and perceived roles on women's participation in sports.SS
Instructor: Barbara J. Osborne, Associate Professor Department of Sport and Exercise Science

WMST 219/POLI 219
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: THE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
M-F 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
This course examines violence against women--from psychological violence to battering and death--and the legal system's responses. Victim support sevices are also critically examined. PH, EE, NA
Instructor: Donna LeFebvre, Senior Lecturer of Political Science

WMST 224/COMM 224
GENDER AND COMMUNICATION
M-F 9:00 - 12:15 PM
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. CI
Instructor: Julia Wood, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies

WMST 254/ART 254
WOMEN IN THE VISUAL ARTS I
M-F 1:15 - 2:45 PM
This course will analyze the representation of women in Western Art, placing special emphasis on works made by women. CI, VP, NA
Instructor: Christopher Currie, Department of Art

WMST 362/HIST 362
WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY
M-F 11:30 - 1:00 PM
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 society and their achievements in American history. We will assess women's contribution 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 he status of women. HS, NA
Instructor: Robin Payne, Department of History

WMST 444/SOCI 444
RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
M-F 11:30 - 1:00 PM
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.
Instructor: Vanesa Rbas, Department of Sociology

SUMMER 2008 - SECOND SESSION

WOMEN’S STUDIES COURSES

WMST 101
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES
MTR 3:15 - 5:50 PM
An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between gender, race, class, and sexuality in American and international cultures. Topics include: work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender relations and images of women in literature, religion, art and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and social sciences. SS, US
Instructor: Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 224/ COMM 224
INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND COMMUNICATION

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 power. CI
Instructor: Stacey Treat, Department of Communication Studies

WMST 275/PHIL 275
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FEMINISM
M-F 11:30 - 1:00 PM
Moral issues of equal rights and justice; sex role stereotypes; equal opportunity and reverse discrimination; abortion; philosophers' theories of feminism. PH, US
Instructor: Emily Given, Department of Philosophy

FALL 2008

WOMEN’S STUDIES COURSES

WMST 089
FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR: PLANTATION LULLABIES
mw 5:00 - 6:15 PM
This course examines the idea of the plantation, a site of forced labor and sexually exploitative relations, in novels and films. SS
Instructor: Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 101
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES
TR 2:00 - 3:15 PM
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 social sciences. This course includes lecture and small discussion groups led by teaching assistants. SS, US
Instructor: Michele Berger, Associate Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 290.2
SPECIAL TOPICS: SPITTING IN THE WIND: AMERICAN WOMEN, ART & ACTIVISM
MW 3:30 - 4:45 PM
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.
Instructor: Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 293
GENDER AND IMPERIALISM
MW 3:00 - 4:15 PM
Prerequisite, one course in gender or non-western societies or consent of instructor. This course focuses on feminist perspectives on imperialism; the effects of imperialism on colonized and Wuropean women; imperialism and masculinity; women's participation in anit-imperialist movements; and the legacies of imperialism for femiists today. This semiar will focus on Africa and the Middle East (Egypt, Syria and Lebanon), and France, in the 19th and 20th centruies. HS, NA
Instructor: Emily Burill, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 297
WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY ACROSS CULTURES
TR 8:00 - 9:15 PM
How women's spirituality interacts with officially-sanctioned religious institutions in a range of cultural contexts and how it forges alternatives to those traditions. LA, US, GL
Instructor: E. Jane Burns, Druscilla French Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies.

WMST 391
WOMEN'S STUDIES PRACTICUM
Supervised internships designed to provide experience working in local, state, and national organizations concerned with women's issues. Readings and paper required. Comprises 2-4 credit hours. Interested students should contact the Internship Coordinator in the Curriculum in Women's Studies, 962-3908 or slhahn@email.unc.edu, prior to the beginning of the semester.
Instructor: Staff

WMST 396
INDEPENDENT READING AND RESEARCH
Intensive reading/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 of the Curriculum in Women's studies and a faculty member is required.

WMST 458/ANTH 458
ARCHAEOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER
MWF 10:00 - 10:50 AM
Exploration of gender relations in past and gendered archaeological practice in present, including relevance of gender to general social theory in archaeology, and developmentof research designs addressing gender meanings and practices, childhood, identity, and sexuality. HS, BW
Instructor: Silvia Tomaskova, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology

WMST 550
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN'S BODIES
TR 11:00 - 12:15 PM
This course will begin with a consideration of the ways in which biological sex is imbued with social significance. We will consider specific issues related to women as sexual beings and sexual objects and examine women's attempts to fulfill arbitrarily created images of beauty, health, and fitness. SS
Instructor: Joanne Hershfield, Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 553
THEORIZING BLACK FEMINISMS
M 3:00 - 5:30 PM
Introduction to the theoretical and practical contritubion of African- American feminists who maintain that issues of rae, gender, sexuality, and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, or strategy for bringing aabout social justice in the United states. Prerequisite, WMST 052 or permission of instructor. SS, US
Instructor: Michele Berger, Associate Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 691H
HONORS THESIS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
Designed to encourage independent thought and research among outstanding undergraduate majors in Women's Studies. Students must take WMST 695 or WMST 695H. Writing and completion of an honors essay. Arrangements must be made during the Spring semester of the Junior year. 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.

WMST 695
SENIOR CAPSTONE SEMINAR: PRINCIPLES OF FEMINIST INQUIRY
TR 9:30 - 10:45 AM
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. Analyzes the different ways that varied academic disciplines have constructed women as a category of knowledge. Permission of instructor required. CI
Instructor: E. Jane Burns, Drucilla French Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies

CROSS-LISTED COURSES

WMST 124/SOCI 124
SEX AND GENDER IN SOCIETY
TR 12:30 - 1:45 PM
TR 2:00 - 3:15 PM
TR 8:00 - 9:15 AM
Examines social differentiation between men and women, with attention given to the extent, causes, and consequences of gender inequality, and the changes in gender roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. SS
Instructor: Sherryl Kleinman, Professor of Sociology, and Beth Latshaw, Department of Sociology and Maria Van Ryn, Department of Sociology

WMST 134H/ENGL 134H
HONORS: READING AND WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES
TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Freshman Honors students only. Study of the form of women's personal writing: personal essay, autobiography, biography. Focus on women of diverse backgrounds: Native-, African-, Asian-American, Chicana, women with disabilities, etc. LA
Instructor: Jane Danielewicz, Associate Professor of English

WMST 140/ ENGL 140
INTRODUCTION TO GAY AND LESBIAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE
MWF 8:00-8:50 AM and
MWF 9:00-9:50 AM
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. LA, US
Instructor: Wendy Weber, Fixed-Term Faculty, Department of English and staff

WMST 217/COMM 217
WOMEN AND POLITICS
MW 3:00 - 4:15 PM
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.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity requirement.
Instructor: Pamela J. Conover, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science

WMST 224/ COMM 224
INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND COMMUNICATION
TR 12:30 - 1:45 PM
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. CI
Instructor: Julia Wood, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies

WMST 253/AMST 253/JWST 253
JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA
MWF 2:00 - 2:50 PM
This course will examine the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amesterdam in 1654 to the present day, and will explore how gender shaped this journey. HS, NA
Instructor: Marcie Ferris, Assistat Professor of American Studies

WMST 265/ POLI 265
FEMINISM AND POLITICAL THEORY
MWF 10:00 - 10:50 AM
Introduction to femimist theory and its implications for the study and practice of political theory. Topics include women in feminist critiques of the western political tradition and schools of feminist political theory. CI, PH, NA
Instructor: Melissa Peterman, Department of Political Science

WMST 266/AFAM 266
BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA
TR 12:30 - 1:45 PM
An examination of the individual and collective experiences of Black women in America from slavery to the present and the evolution of feminist consciousness. SS
Instructor: Kia Caldwell, Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies.

WMST 275/PHIL 275
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FEMINISM
TR 8:30 - 9:15 AM
Moral issues of equal rights and justice; sex role stereotypes; equal opportunity and reverse discrimination; abortion; philosophers' theories of feminism. PH, US
Instructor: Staff

WMST 363/ENGL 363
FEMINIST THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
TR 3:30 AM - 4:45 PM
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. LA
Instructor: Jack Jordynn, Assistant Professor of English

WMST 373/CMPL 373
MODERN WOMEN WRITERS
TR 3:30 - 4:45 AM
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. LA, NA
Instructor: Diane R. Leonard, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

WMST 381/JAPN 381
WOMEN AND WORK IN JAPAN
MW 3:00 - 4:15 PM
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. Fulfills Cultural Diversity requirement.
Instructor: Janice Bardsley, Associate Professor of Japanese

WMST 388/INTS 388
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
TR 11:00 - 12:15 PM
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. SS, BN, GL
Instructor: Karen Booth, Associate Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 410/INTS410
COMPARATIVE QUEER POLITICS
TR 2:00 - 3:15 PM
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 especiallay 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 toruism." SS, BN GL
Instructor: Karen Booth, Associate Professor of Women's Studies

WMST 424/RELI424
GENDERS AND THEORIES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
TR 11:00 - 12:15 PM
This course has two primary purposes. First, it will introduce students to important contemporary gender theory, particularly concerning various forms of sexuality and nonconformity. We will begin 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 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.
Instructor: Randall Styers, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

WMST 444/SOCI 444
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
TR 2:00 - 3:15 PM
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 experience at work and within the family.
Instructor: Vanesa Ribas, Department of Sociology

WMST 446/ENGL 446
AMERICAN WOMEN AUTHORS
MWF 9:00 - 9:50 AM
Study of American women writers from the mid-19th century to the present. Emphasis on works that treat themes relevant to women's lives in novel, short story, memoir, and poetry. Writing by Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Cathi Hanauer, Anne Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Helena Viramontes, Rita Mare Brown, and others. LA, NA
Instructor: Staff

WMST 975/HIST 975
RESEARCH SEMINAR ON WOMEN'S HISTORY
TR 2:00 - 4:50 PM
A research seminar on the history of women in Western Europe and the united States.
Instructor: Jacquelyn D. Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History