Program in the Study of Women and Gender

Director

Carol M. Armstrong

Executive Committee

Carol M. Armstrong, Art and Archaeology

Nancy G. Bermeo, Politics

Amy Borovoy, East Asian Studies

Angela N. H. Creager, History

Maria A. DiBattista, English, Comparative Literature

Brigid Doherty, German, Art and Archaeology

R. Marie Griffith, Religion

Wendy Heller, Music

Nannerl O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School

Rena S. Lederman, Anthropology

Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, French and Italian

Anne McCauley, Art and Archaeology

Esther da Costa Meyer, Art and Archaeology

Deborah E. Nord, English

Jeff E. Nunokawa, English

Sara S. Poor, German

Deborah A. Prentice, Psychology

Daniel I. Rubenstein, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Valerie A. Smith, English

M. Christine Stansell, History

Associated Faculty

April Alliston, Comparative Literature

Michael W. Cadden, University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Theater and Dance

Ellen B. Chances, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Diana J. Fuss, English

Hendrik A. Hartog, History

Olga Litvak, History

Janet M. Martin, Classics

Esther H. Schor, English

Lynn T. White III, Woodrow Wilson School

Froma I. Zeitlin, Classics, Comparative Literature

The Program in the Study of Women and Gender offers a course of study culminating in the award of a graduate certificate, recognizing work done by graduate students in their departments specializing in topics of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies.

Students declare their intention to acquire the certificate when they accept their offers to come to Princeton, at the end of their first year of study, or at the start of the term in which they intend to take their Ph.D. qualifying examinations. At that time, they will contract to meet the following requirements in order to receive certification in the program.

The requirements are WOM 400 (Contemporary Feminist Theory), or a similar course to be reviewed by the director of the program; two other courses in the humanities or social sciences: (a) whose contents are judged to be devoted primarily to women, gender, and/or sexuality; (b) for which they write research papers devoted to the topics of women, gender, and/or sexuality; or (c) which are independent study topics tailored to the student’s interests in those items. The suitability of this course work shall be evaluated by the director of the program and members of the Program Committee.

Ph.D. candidates shall enroll in a dissertation colloquium in the program after the completion of the general examination. A Ph.D. thesis on a topic devoted to women, gender, and/or sexuality issues will be determined and accepted by the director and members of the Program Committee.

The certificate will be awarded upon completion of all of these requirements, and at the time of the receipt of a Ph.D. diploma in his or her discipline, the director shall award the student a letter of certification in the program.

WOM 400 Contemporary Feminist Theory

Carol Armstrong

This course addresses the question: What is feminism? Going back to the beginnings of contemporary feminist thought, it proceeds through the variety of feminist approaches that have marked the study of art, literature, cinema and popular culture, history, politics, and society since the 1970s.

WOM 501 Questions Across Disciplines in Women’s Studies

Deborah E. Nord

A seminar for graduate students engaged in research in gender studies, examining the guiding concepts and methodologies across the humanistic disciplines. Taught by scholars from different departments, topics include approaches in anthropology, film studies, history, literature, political science, and sociology. Applications are available in 113 Dickinson Hall.

Pertinent Courses in Allied Departments

Anthropology

414 Representing Difference: Documentary Films as Practice

441 Gender: Contested Categories, Shifted Frames

Art and Archaeology

543 The Domestication of Space: From Incorporation to Disembodiment

English

576 Literature and Gender

History

519 Topics in the History of Sex and Gender: Comparative Approaches

576 Research Seminar in Gender: Revolutionary to Modern America

Music

515, 516 Topics in the History of Opera

Politics

516 Feminist Political Theory

Sociology

510 Sex and Gender

510 Sociology of Gender

Woodrow Wilson School

593b Policy Analysis: Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights

Other Allied Departments:

African American Studies

American Studies

Classics

Comparative Literature

East Asian Studies

French and Italian

German Department

Near Eastern Studies

Religion Departments