WOMEN AND HEALTH
Combines critical feminist and anti-racist analyses of medicine with current research in epidemiology and biomedicine to understand health and health disparities as co-produced by social systems and biology.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Critical Approaches in Social and Cultur
This course examines the conceptual foundations that support feminist and queer analyses of racial capitalism, security and incarceration, the politics of life and health, and colonial and postcolonial studies, among others. Open to all students; required for the major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and the Interdisciplinary Concentration or Minor in Race and Ethnicity (ICORE/MORE).
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Alexander Pittman
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS
Enrollment for this class is by instructor approval and an application is required. Please fill out the form here:
https://forms.gle/bPsV7rcf5RWB35PM9
This introductory course for the Interdisciplinary Concentration or Minor in Race and Ethnicity (ICORE/MORE) is open to all students. We focus on the critical study of social difference as an interdisciplinary practice, using texts with diverse modes of argumentation and evidence to analyze social differences as fundamentally entangled and co-produced. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this course, the professor will frequently be joined by other faculty from the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS), who bring distinct disciplinary and subject matter expertise. Some keywords for this course include hybridity, diaspora, borderlands, migration, and intersectionality.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
AFFECT AND ACTIVISM
From love to anger to disappointment to hope, political activism mobilizes emotions towards certain ends but also generates new affective states and feelings along the way. This advanced seminar will familiarize students with feminist, anti-racist and queer scholarship on affect, feelings and emotion as intrinsic to politics and as crucial for understanding how political thought and action unfold in contingent and often unexpected ways. Mixing theoretical and cultural texts with case studies, we will look at how affect permeates structures of power and domination, embodiment and identity, and collective activist projects concerned with gender and sexual liberation. Students will have an opportunity to read theories of affect as well as to “read” activist movements
for
affect by working with archival documents (such as zines, manifestos, and movement ephemera) and other primary sources (such as memoir, photography and documentary film).
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Manijeh Moradian
Info - 4 points
ART, RESEARCH, STORY
Art, Research, Story draws on a range of materials from the social sciences, the visual arts, social
theory, history, and digital media to ask three interrelated questions:
• What can we learn from exploring—and disrupting—the borders between creativity
and social research? Between making ‘art’ and understanding social structure,
politics, or history?
• How does the way we tell a story also shape what that story tells? How is what we
learn from a story partly about the form that the story takes?
• What methods can feminist researchers and artists use to both analyze society, and
move us to want to change society and ourSelves?
The class will create a space of study, experiment, and (serious!) play that allows us to engage these questions, while also discovering new questions that emerge from our collective conversations. The syllabus offers many resources to inspire us: scholarly writings, digital art, live performance, poetry, graphic novels, hip hop, and photography. But our most valuable resource is our own collective curiosity and engagement, which we will use to understand the burgeoning transdisciplinary field of arts-based research practices.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Orr
Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR II
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to senior majors. Individual research in Womens Studies conducted in consulation with the instructor. The result of each research project is submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar.
- W 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
Knowledge, Practice, Power
Knowledge, Practice, Power is a practical and multi-disciplinary exploration of research methods and interpretive strategies used in feminist scholarship, focusing on larger questions about how we know what we know, and who and what knowledge is for. Open to non-majors, but sophomore and junior majors in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) are encouraged to enroll in this course as preparation for Senior Seminar I. This course is required for students pursuing the concentration or minor in Feminist/Intersectional Science and Technology Studies. Prerequisite:
Either
one introductory WGSS course
or
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory
or
Permission of the Instructor.
- M 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandra Moyano-Ariza
Info - 4 points
FEMINISM & SCIENCE STUDIES
Prerequisites: Feminist Theory or permission of instructor. Investigates socially and historically informed critiques of theoretical methods and practices of the sciences. It asks if/how feminist theoretical and political concerns make a critical contribution to science studies.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE
EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE
At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences? How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?
- F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margot L Kotler
Info - 4 points
SWANA Diasporas: Culture, Politics and I
In this class we will study South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic populations, social movements and cultural production that have responded to the multi-faceted ramifications of the 21st century war on terror. We will focus on diverse Arab, Iranian, and Afghan diasporas in the United States, where 19th and 20th century legacies of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and Orientalism combined in new ways to target these groups after the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Drawing on an interdisciplinary array of texts, including ethnography, fiction, feminist and queer theory, social movement theory, and visual and performance art, we will look at how the “war on terror” has shaped the subjectivities and self-representation of SWANA communities. Crucially, we will examine the gender and sexual politics of Islamophobia and racism and study how scholars, activists and artists have sought to intervene in dominant narratives of deviance, threat, and backwardness attributed to Muslim and other SWANA populations. This course takes up the politics of naming, situating the formation of “SWANA” as part of an anti-colonial genealogy that rejects imperial geographies such as “Middle East.” We will ask how new geographies and affiliations come into being in the context of open-ended war, and what new political identities and forms of cultural production then become possible.
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Manijeh Moradian
Info - 4 points