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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.