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AFRO-AM 691E

Modern African American Women Novelists Monday 12:00-2:30PM

James Smethurst

See department for description.

COMM 794U

Politics of Sexual Representation Tuesday 4:00-7:00PM

Lisa Henderson

See department for description.

COMHL 213

Peer Health Educ.I Tuesday 10:00-12:30 (contact instructor to add course)

Amanda Collings

Training course. Students participate in campus outreach projects while learning specific information on the primary health issues for college students: alcohol and other drug use, sexual decision-making, contraception, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders and stress management techniques. Class involves personal health assessment such as personal alcohol and drug survey, small group discussions, guest lectures, role playing, team building and public speaking exercises. Class size limited to 20. Stuidents must complete an application and process for admission to the Peer Health Education Program. This course is the first course in a year long academic course.

COMHL 214

Peer Health Educ.II Tuesday 4:00-6:30 (contact instructor to add course)

Sally Linowski

Utilizing the skills and information from EDUC/ComHl 213, students are prepared to conduct educational programs in the residence halls and Greek areas. Significant group faciliation, workshop presentation and health education program planning training. Campus outreach projects include World AIDS Day, Safe Spring Break, Designated Driver, and Safe Sex Campaigns. Advanced peers serve as mentors to the first semester peer health educators, and may elect to continue in the program through independent study credits. Prerequisite: EDUC/ComHl 213.

COMPLIT 387

Myths of the Feminine Lec Monday, Wednesday

Elizabeth Petroff

Myths about women and the life cycle from many cultures: ancient near east, classical antiquity, Old Europe, India, Asia, the Islamic world. Women writers from those same cultures, showing the interplay between the cultural construction of the feminine and personal voices.

ECON 348/ WOST 391E

Political Economy of Women Tuesday, Thursday 9:15-10:30 p.m.

Anthony Guglielmi

Uses a wide range of women's issues to teach varied economic principles and theories. Popular women's topics in past semesters include women's increasing labor force participation; gender differences in hiring, promotions, and earnings; the growing poverty rate for female headed households; trade policy effects on women in the US and other countries; and race and class differences in the economic opportunities of women. Empirical assessment of women's work in the market and in the home in the US and other countries. Reconsideration of traditional issues of political economy, comparative economic history, and labor economics.

EDUC 392E

Sexism (1 credit) Tba

Barbara Love

EDUC 392L

Heterosexism (1 credit) tba

Barbara Love

ENGL 132

Man and Woman in Literature Lecture 1 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:05-9:55 Lecture 2 Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:45 Lecture 3 Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:45

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Literature treating the relationship between man and woman. Topics may include the nature of love, the image of the hero and of the heroine, and definitions, past and present, of the masculine and feminine. 100 level courses do not count toward Women's Studies major.

ENGL 491D

American Women's Autobiography Thursday 1:00-3:30

Margo Culley

See department for description.

ENGL 891F

Writing and Gender Wednesday 1:00-3:30

Donna LeCourt

Do men and women write differently? Do they read different kinds of texts? Apply different interpretive strategies? Do men and women prefer to write in different kinds of genres? Do school writing assignments privilege one gender over another? These are some of the questions this course will take up by looking at theories of gender and literacy as well as research on literacy practices both in and outside of school. The "writing" we will study will range from published novels and "school" writing for courses to television and video games. Gender will also be defined complexly, looking beyond easy definitions of gender according to sexual difference. The primary goal of the course will be to examine how literacy practices become caught up in questions of gender as part of the way our culture reproduces itself through notions of identity, "correct" language use, and access to public voice.

GERMAN 363

Witches: Myth and Historical Reality Tuesday, Thursday 4:00-5:15

Susan Cocalis

The image of the witch in witchcraft trials; what kind of women were accused of being witches in early modern Europe and North America. Mythological texts, studies on popular magic, prosecution records of witch trials, theories about female witchcraft, the social role of women, early dramas and poems about witches, woodcuts and paintings of witches. Conducted in English. (Gen.Ed. I, G)

GERMAN 372

Vienna 1890-1914 Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:15

Susan Cocalis

Examines art, literature, and music in turn-of-the-century Vienna in a social-historical cultural context with a focus on gender. Multimedia presentations. Conducted in English. (Gen.Ed. AL)

GERMAN 377H

Politics and Culture Monday 4:00-6:30 PM Bi-weekly film screenings Thursday 6:00 PM

Maria Stehle

This class is designed as an introductory seminar to Cultural Studies. The course will focus on the 1970's in East and West Germany, a time of crisis and contradiction. We will compare the meanings of political democracy and personal freedom in the two states, investigate the changes in gender roles and family politics, and discuss the meanings and politics of fear and terror in pop culture, media, film and literature. We will examine the relevance of these debates and developments for today's politics and cultural identifications in the unified Germany, in Europe, and in the US. No knowledge of German is required.

HIST 389

US Women's History to 1890 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:25-2:15

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See department for description.

HIST 594C

History of Abortion Controversy Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:45

Joyce Berkman

See department for description.

JUDAIC 391D/ WOMENSST 391D

Women, Gender and Judaism Tuesday 2:30-5:15 PM

Susan Shapiro

The ways in which the categories "woman/man," "feminine/masculine" and "gender" differently construe the character of Judaism as understood in religious, cultural and social terms. Focus on historical constructions of women's gender roles and identities in Judaism and their cultural and social consequences, using three types in literature: 1) primary religious texts about women and gender in Judaism; 2) interpretations and historical accounts of different periods and aspects of women's (and men's) gender roles in Judaism and Jewish culture; 3) current critical, feminist theories of discourse, culture, and politics through which to problematize readings of primary and interpretative texts.

LEGAL 391G

Women and the Law Tuesday 7:00-9:30 PM

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This course will explore how women have been defined and constructed by American legal institutions. We will examine the transformation of women from property to property owners, and their acquisition of full citizenhood; the evolution of the rights of bodily integrity, including reproductive rights and freedom from domestic violence; and how the development of these rights has reinforced or created divisions among women.

PHIL 381H/ WOST 393H

Philosophy of Gender & Sexuality Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:15

Ann Ferguson

A comparison of philosophical theories of gender and sexuality, including Natural Purpose theory (ancient Greek and Christian thought), biological determinism, Freudianism and Foucault. We will investigate the ways that women and their bodies have been viewed by feminist theorists on female embodiment such as Beauvoir, Rich, Wittig and Butler. Issues will include: the relation between sex, gender and sexuality; dichotomies between ideals of masculinity/femininity, reason/emotion, subject/object, connection between oppression by race, class, sexuality and gender, representations of women and theories of self, identity and subjectivity. Texts will include Conboy, Medina and Stanbury, eds Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory; Freud Sexuality and the Psychology of Love; Foucault History of Sexuality, v.1; Feinberg Stone Butch Blues and selected readings. Prerequisites include either a 100 level Philosophy class or WOST 201 or permission of the instructor. Course requirements include class participation, 2 short papers, a mid-term exam and an 8-10 page term paper. Since the class is an honors course, it requires additional class preparation and discussion, as well as extra written work, and receives 4 credits.

PHIL 591W

Seminar: 17th Century Women's Philosophy Wednesday 7:00-9:30PM

Eileen O'Neil

See department for description.

POLSCI 675

Feminist Theory Thursday 3:00-5:30PM

Barbara Cruikshank

Examination of the foundation of different forms of feminism in relation to classical and contemporary political theory. The distinction between public and private, production and reproduction, and "difference" as an issue of race, class, sexual preference, religious and ethnic identity.

PSYCH 308

Psychology of Women Tuesday, Thursday 11:15-12:30

Carol Beale

A general introduction. Two sections: a) the issue of sex differences, including evidence for and explanation of such differences; b) "women's issues," topics of particular interest to women in contemporary society (e.g., violence against women, work and achievement). Prerequisite: elementary psychology.

SOCIOL 106

Race, Gender, and Social Class (SBD) Monday, Wednesday 12:20-1:10 plus discussion sections Friday

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An overview of sociological approach to race, class and gender inequalities--especially economic inequalities--in the contemporary United States. Some attention will also be devoted to the presidential election and its potential impact on the future of race, class and gender inequalities. Within the segment devoted to race, African Americans receive most emphasis. Readings consist of one book and selection of copied articles.

SOCIOL 106H

Race, Gender and Social Class (honors) Wednesday 6:00-8:30PM

Joya Misra

See description above.

SOCIOL 222

The Family (SBD) Monday, Wednesday, 1:25-2:15PM plus discussion sections Friday

Naomi Gerstel

First part: historical transformations in family life (relationships between husbands and wives, position and treatment of children, importance of kinship ties); second part: the contemporary family through life course (choice of a mate, relations in marriage, parenthood, breakup of the family unit).

SOCIOL 383

Gender and Society Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:20-1:10

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Analysis of: 1) historical and cross-cultural variation in positions and relationships of women and men; 2) contemporary creation and internalization of gender and maintenance of gender differences in adult life; 3) recent social movements to transform or maintain "traditional" positions of women and men. Prerequisite: 100-level Sociology course.

SOCIOL 792B

Gender Seminar Monday 2:30-5:00

Michelle Budig

See department for description.