Browsing Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) - Archived by Subject "gender"
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17.007J / 17.006 / 24.237 / SP.601J / WGS.601J Feminist Political Thought, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course is designed as a focused survey of feminist political thought and theory, exploring the various and often competing ways feminists have framed discussions about sex, gender, and oppression. Beginning with a ... -
17.118J / SP.412J / WGS.412J Feminist Political Thought, Fall 2000
(2000-12)This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions ... -
21A.218J / SP.454J / WGS.454J Identity and Difference, Fall 2002
(2002-12)How can the individual be at once cause and consequence of society, a unique agent of social action and also a social product? Why are some people accepted and celebrated for their particular features while other people ... -
21A.225J / SP.621J / WGS.621J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state. -
21A.230J / WGS.456J The Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004
(2004-06)We begin by considering briefly the evolution of the family, its cross-cultural variability, and its history in the West. We next examine how the family is currently defined in the U.S., discussing different views about ... -
21A.232J / WGS.172J Rethinking the Family, Sex, and Gender, Fall 2010
(2010-12)Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, household, gender, and sexuality. We will explore ... -
21H.153J / SP.421J / WGS.421J Race and Gender in Asian America, Fall 2002
(2002-12)An interdisciplinary examination of the Asian-American experience with particular emphasis on gender and race from mid-nineteenth century to present. Topics include: Asian American women's history, Asian American feminisms, ... -
21M.670 / SP.472 / WGS.472 Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course explores the forms, contents, and contexts of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in shaping American concert dance. For example, we will identify dances from an African American vernacular ... -
21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005
(2005-06)For students with experience in writing nonfictional prose. Advanced study of rhetorical strategies and techniques of prose style. Considerable writing and revision required. In addition to analyzing the work of class ... -
21W.745 / WGS.576 Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008
(2008-06)This course is a workshop for students with some experience in writing essays, nonfiction prose. Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other ... -
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that asks critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize ... -
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2005
(2005-06)An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and feminist theory to examine our cultural assumptions about gender, trace the effects of new scholarship on traditional ... -
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2009
(2009-06)This course is designed as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, an academic area of study focused on the ways that sex and gender manifest themselves in social, cultural, and political ... -
SP.406 / WGS.406 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. We begin with an investigation of the theoretical ... -
SP.406 / WGS.406 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. We begin with an investigation of the theoretical ... -
SP.601J / 17.006 / 24.237 / WGS.601J Feminist Political Thought, Spring 2010
(2010-06)In this course we will examine the development of feminist theory over time. Some subjects we will examine in detail include suffrage and equality; radical feminism; psychoanalysis and feminism; theories of power; sexuality ... -
WGS.101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Fall 2014
(2014-12)This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize ... -
WGS.110 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2010
(2010-12)This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in film and literature. We begin with a contemporary debate about biology ... -
WGS.111 Gender and Media Studies: Women and the Media, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, ...