WOMENSST 691B

Issues in Feminist Research Tuesday, Thursday 4:00-5:15 p.m.

Ann Ferguson

This seminar is organized around graduate student presentations of their own research and will include some readings on general questions of feminist methodology and ethics of research. The seminar will include a public lecture series where research will be presented and discussion will include issues of feminist research. Enrolled students will be expected to do the reading, present their research and discuss others, and keep an intellectual journal recording their reactions to the research presented in the lecture series.

COM-HLTH 582

Women's Health Tuesday 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Kathryn Tracey

Introduction to public health policy. The policy-making process, policy analysis, and policy development. Emphasis on community perspectives on state-level public health policies. Includes individual and small group assignments and presentations. Prerequisite: COM HL 601 or 620, or consent of instructor.

COMP-LIT 691

Female Subject Monday 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Petroff

See department for description.

ECON 791B

Family Planning Monday, Wednesday 3:35-4:50 p.m.

Nancy Folbre

See department for description.

ENGLISH 891

Queer Theory Tuesday 1:00 p.m.

Deborah Carlin

This course will examine critically the substantive and growing body of writing which classifies itself as queer theory. Queer theory organizes itself around certain primary assumptions: first, that all sexuality is a construct and second, that the hegemony of heteronormativity in Western culture is based upon the fallacious belief that heterosexuality itself is innate or normal. As both a political and a deconstructive methodology, queer theory seeks to disrupt the binarisms which contribute to the regime of the normative in intellectual thought and in social institutions. The course will be organized into several distinct areas of inquiry: 1) What is Queer Theory? (Epstein, Seidman, Duggan, Smyth, Foucault, Sedgwick, Walters and Goldman); 2) The Sociopolitical Origins of Queer (Bérubé and Escoffier, Berlant and Freeman, Wolf, Signorile, Crimp); 3) Queer Formulations and the Politics of Identity (Browning, Stein, Delany, Moraga, Hanawa, Vaid, Inness, Powers, Gamson); 4) (De)/(Re)Gendering Sexualities (Rubin, Roscoe, Butler, Hollibaigh, Young, Queen, Cromwell, Stryker, Valentine and Wilchins, Hilbert); 5) Cinema Queerité and Queer Pop Culture (Doty, Burston, White, Pramaggiore, Straayer, Arroyo, Rich, Helford, Cooper, Barnard, Dittmar); 6) Queer Fictions of the Past (Maynard, Doan and aters, McRuer, Bravmann, Laprovsky and Davis, Mackenzie, Chauncey, Somerville, Sinfield, Castle, Trumbach, Jones and Stallybrass, Halperin); and 7) Queer Theories/Social Realities (Tucker, Lehr, Phelan, D'Emilio, Badgett, ennessy, Dollimore, Crain Warner). Readings will be drawn from the disciplines of literature, history, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, art history, and media studies. Each student will make one in-class presentation of between 15 to 20 minutes on a specific essay or topic, and will also be expected to compose both an abstract for a conference paper and an 8-10 page paper to be delivered in front of the class at the end of the semester. The text we will use will be an anthology and textbook I have recently edited, "Queer Cultures: Readings Across Disciplines." Prentice-Hall has agreed to supply proof copies to each student in the course at no charge. Other essays may be placed on reserve, if necessary, to expand our core of readings.

HISTORY 791B

Women and Gender Wednesday 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Joyce Berkman

See department for description.

LABOR 679

Women and Work Monday 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Stephanie Luce

The role of women in the work force and in the trade union movement with historical, social, and economic emphasis.

SOCIOL 722

The Family Thursday 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Gupta

Examines trends and changes in U.S. family lifemarriage, divorce, childbearing, gender roles from a variety of theoretical perspectives, using demographic, historical, and ethnographic research sources.

SOCIOL 794D

Gender and Employment Tuesday, Thursday 8:00-9:15 p.m.

Michelle Budig

See department for description.