COURSES (Spring 2010)
CORE COURSES
WOM 306 / VIS 341
Women and Film
Professor Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
1:30 – 4:20 Tuesday
This course will explore the role of women filmmakers in European cinema from World War II to the present. We will examine the way film artists (directors, editors, set designers, etc.) have identified with the visual image specific to the art of cinema and national cultures. It will include Varda, Cavani, Wertmüller, Potter, Campion, and Holland among others. Emphasis on cinematic, socio-ideological perspectives on the role of women in film.
Special film showing, The Lark Farm
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WOM 343 / ENG 343
The New Woman in British Drama, 1890-1915
Professor Tamsen Wolff
1:30 – 4:20 Wednesday
This course will look at a sample of the more ambitious turn-of-the-century British drama that addresses the changing political and social roles for women and the arrival of the so-called New Woman. We will locate the plays in their immediate culture of performance, theatre-going, production, reviewing, response and promotion, as well as among the cultural assumptions and issues of politics and society in the time.
WOM 400
Contemporary Feminist Theory
Professor Lynn Chancer
1:30 – 4:20 Monday
This seminar focuses on the intellectual development of feminist theory, focusing on readings that have been historically influential and representative of varied theoretical perspectives. The ramifications of feminist theories for both social science and the arts will be explored. Special attention will be paid to ongoing debates over social constructionism versus essentialism, identity politics and poststructuralism; sexuality and psychoanalysis, and the development of masculinity studies and queer theories.
WOM 420 / SOC 420
Born in the U.S.A.: Culture and Reproduction in Modern America
Professor Elizabeth Armstrong
1:30 – 4:20 Thursday
Reproduction is a basic biological process, as well as a fundamental one for all societies. While the
biology of human reproduction is universal across time and place, cultural norms and social institutions
powerfully inflect and shape the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in every society. This course
investigates the history and sociology of reproduction, focusing on the contemporary United States, but with an eye towards other societies for comparison. How, why and for whom does birth matter? How do
reproductive practices reflect gender, race and class? The course examines the culture, politics, and
economics of reproduction.
CROSS-LISTED COURSES
AMS 345 / WOM 347
Women's Leadership in Modern America
Professor Karen Jackson-Weaver
ART 343 / WOM 350
Modern Masculinities
Professor Bridget Alsdorf
EEB 301 / WOM 301
Evolution and the Behavior of the Sexes
Professor Jeanne Altmann
FRE 321 / WOM 330
The Invention of Literature and Culture in France: The Look of Love
Professor Sarah Kay
HIS 390 / WOM 390
African-American Women’s History
Professor Tera Hunter
JDS 315 / WOM 310
The Family in Jewish Tradition
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
REL 389 / WOM 389
Women, Religion, and Human Rights
Professor Alison Boden
SOC 354 / WOM 354
Queer Theory and Politics
Professor Amin Ghaziani
THR 367 / WOM 367
Queer Theater
Professor Jill Dolan
COURSES OF INTEREST
AAS 395/ENG 352
Race and the Pornological
AAS 405/ART 475
Bodies and Borders: Sexuality, 'Race' and Representation
CLA 327/HIS 327/HLS 327
Topics in Ancient History and Religion: Women in Ancient Rome
ENG 574
Literature and Society: The Long Goodbye: Victorian Sociability and Its Discontents
FRE 506
French Medieval Literature and Culture: Skins, Books, and the Self
HIS 384
Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
POL 342
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
PSY 327
Close Relationships
SOC 310/LAS 310
Gender and Development in the Americas
SOC 540
Topics in Economic and Organizational Sociology: Gender and Economic Activity
