COURSES(Fall 2009)
CORE COURSES
WOM 201
Introduction to the Study of Gender
Prof Gayle Salamon
11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Monday and Wednesday
What exactly is gender? Is it just the contemporary name we give to sex? Or does it mean something
different? How are ideas about sexuality and race implicated in our understanding of gender? This course
will consider gender both as an object of study and an analytical category through which we read other
cultural practices. We will explore some of the important themes and debates centrally concerned with the
question of gender over the past hundred years, including feminist history, pornography and sexual
freedom, gender and technology, and the politics of the veil.
WOM 393
Gender and Science
Prof Angela Creager
1:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Wednesday
This course will explore two aspects of the gender and science literature: the historical participation
of women (and men) in scientific work, and the feminist critique of scientific knowledge. We will explore
ways in which women have been systematically excluded from science and also assess the problems with that hypothesis. Our readings will include feminist perspectives on technology and medicine as well as
science.
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
COM 401 / WOM 401
Gender and the Rise of the Novel in Europe
Prof April Alliston
ENG 396 / WOM 396
Queer Theory
Prof Gayle Salamon
ENG 408 / THR 408 / AMS 408 / WOM 408
Women in American Theater: Doing Gender, Race, Sexuality, Onstage and Off
Prof Jill Dolan
ENG 576 / WOM 576
Literature and Gender: Sex, Gender, and the Victorians
Prof Deborah Nord
HIS 444 / WOM 444
Gender and U.S. Citizenship
Prof Rebecca Rix
HIS 519 / HOS 519 / WOM 519
Topics in the History of Sex and Gender: History of Sexuality
Prof Margot Canaday
PSY 329 / WOM 329
Psychology of Gender
Prof Stacey Sinclair
REL 383 / WOM 383
Disorderly Women in American Religious History
Prof Kathi Kern
COURSES of INTEREST
CLA 334 / COM 334
Modern Transformations of Classical Themes: The Tragic Heroine Prof Janet Martin
COM 224 / REL 290
Representing the Queen of Sheba in the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Traditions Prof Wendy Belcher
ENG 369
American Women Writers
Prof Diana J. Fuss
SOC 240
Families
Prof Ana Goldani
