The Institute for Research on Women and Gender Is the Locus of Interdisciplinary Feminist

1 I R W a G P A R T I C U L A R S The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is the locus of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and teaching at Columbia University. Offering an undergraduate degree program in Women’s and Gender Studies, and graduate certification in Feminist Scholarship, the Institute draws its faculty from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and provides rigorous training in interdisciplinary practice. Courses survey the history and theory of gender studies, preparing students for professional work or further academic engagement in the field.

The degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia College, taught in cooperation with Barnard College’s Women’s Studies Department, provides students with a culturally and historically situated, theoretically diverse understanding of feminist scholarship and its contributions to the disciplines. The program is intended to introduce students to the long arc of feminist discourse about the cultural and historical representation of nature, power, and the social construction of difference. It encourages them to engage in the debates regarding the ethical and political issues of equality and justice that emerge in such discussions, and it links the questions of gender and sexuality to those of racial, ethnic, and other kinds of hierarchical difference. Through sequentially organized courses in women’s and gender studies, as well as required discipline-based courses in the humanities, social sciences and history, the degree provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary framework, methodological training and substantive guidance in specialized areas of research. Small classes and mentored thesis writing give students an education that is both comprehensive and tailored to individual needs. The major degree culminates in a two-semester thesis-writing class, in which students undertake original research and produce advanced scholarship. Graduates leave the program well-prepared for future scholarly work in women’s and gender studies, but the degree also prepares students for careers and future training in law, public policy, social work, community organizing, journalism, medicine, and all those professions in which there is a need for critical and creative interdisciplinary thought.

The graduate program provides courses in feminist theory, inquiry, and method for students enrolled in departmental doctoral programs and in the professional schools. Students are welcome to take one or more of these courses, which challenge disciplinary perspectives and offer inclusionary frameworks of analysis, as desired. Students who wish to achieve certification in feminist scholarship should follow the guidelines below. Certification testifies to mastery of a body of cross-disciplinary literature and enhances employability, especially in Women’s Studies and related programs.

The Women’s and Gender Studies office is located, along with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, at 763 Schermerhorn Extension.

Please Note: The following set of courses is as accurate as possible. Students are nonetheless strongly urged to confirm course offerings, meeting times, and faculty with the departments on their websites.

2 Students who wish more information about the major should consult the Columbia College advising webpage for women’s and gender studies.

http://www.college.columbia.edu/advising/ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/ U N D E R G R A D U A T E D E G R E E R E Q U I R E M E N T S FOR A MAJOR IN WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES The major degree will require students to take either V1001x, “Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies,” or V3111, “Feminist Texts I: Wollstonecraft to Beauvoir” (students are encouraged to take both if possible); V3112, “Feminist Texts II: Beauvoir to the Present;” either V3311, “Colloquium in Feminist Theory,” or V3813, “Feminist Inquiry;” and V3520 and V3521, “Senior Seminar,” (two semesters). The first semester will focus on conceptualizing, researching, and organizing the senior essay; the second semester will be devoted to writing and presentation of the essay.

In addition to these core courses, women’s and gender studies majors must take a minimum of five approved courses that focus on women, gender, sexuality and/or feminist perspectives. In order to provide the breadth necessary for an interdisciplinary major, students must take at least one women’s and gender studies course each from the methodologies of the humanities (the literatures, classics, religion, art history, philosophy, etc.), and the social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology, economics, etc.). At least one of these courses must focus on global/transnational or comparative issues or non-Western cultures and at least one on race and/or sexuality. These courses may be offered by women’s and gender studies, another interdisciplinary program, or the departments.

Finally, to ensure grounding in a particular methodology, students must take at least five additional courses in the social sciences, humanities, or pre-med, which need not focus on gender; they are strongly encouraged to concentrate these courses within a single discipline. Students interested in women’s and gender studies are encouraged to begin planning their course of study as early in their academic careers as possible, working with the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

HONORS IN WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES Typically, honors in women’s and gender studies will be awarded to students with (1) a grade point average of at least 3.6 or higher in women’s and gender studies or related courses; and (2) a senior thesis that has been recommended for honors by the professor of the senior seminar and the student’s faculty advisor, and (3) approval by the College. A limited number of students are granted this standing, and final approval originates from the Dean’s Office. However, the Undergraduate Director, in consultation with the senior seminar professor and

3 the student’s faculty advisor, may propose honors for an extraordinary academic performance, with final approval resting with the College.

SPECIAL CONCENTRATION FOR THOSE MAJORING IN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT V3112 Feminist Texts II; either V3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory, or V3813 Colloquium in Feminist Inquiry; plus five additional approved courses on gender.

FOR A CONCENTRATION IN WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES Courses: The same requirements as for the major, with the exception of the Senior Seminar sequence.

FOR A PREMEDICAL CONCENTRATION IN WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES V3112—Feminist Texts II; and either V3311—Colloquium in Feminist Theory, or V3813—Colloquium in Feminist Inquiry; and three approved courses in either the social sciences or the humanities; Premedical concentrators have the option to write a senior thesis; students wishing to do so should enroll in, V3520 and V3521—Senior Seminar.

COURSES APPROVED FOR THE WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES MAJOR The courses listed below have been approved for the Women’s and Gender Studies major at Columbia College and in the School of General Studies. This list does not include all of the many courses at Columbia that address issues of concern to women’s and gender studies majors or concentrators. Students should plan their courses of study, beginning no later than their second year, in consultation with the Undergraduate Director.

In order to be accepted for graduation credit by Columbia College, all courses taken for the major must be approved by the Columbia College Committee on Instruction. Unless otherwise noted, all courses in women’s and gender studies have been approved, and we have done our best to verify that all departmental courses listed below have also been approved. However, it is the student’s responsibility to check with the Undergraduate Director about the status of any departmental courses that are not included in the current Columbia College Bulletin.

PRIMARY AND AFFILIATED COURSES Primary courses focus on women, gender, and/or feminist or queer perspectives. Affiliated courses include women, gender, and/or feminist perspectives as one of several foci. Majors and concentrators in Women’s and Gender Studies should select their five required gender courses from the primary list. Students are encouraged to use the list of affiliated courses to choose their five courses within a particular area of scholarship. With prior permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies, students may use a course from the affiliated list to fulfill their five courses on gender. The Director of Undergraduate Studies for 2011-2012 is Eleanor Johnson.

4 G R A D U A T E S T U D I E S I N F E M I N I S T S C H O L A R S H I P While the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does not offer a degree program in gender studies, the Institute works closely with the disciplinary departments to assure graduate students interested in gender/feminist scholarship a wide selection of courses in each academic year. In addition, the Institute annually offers at least two theoretical courses in feminist scholarship. The first, “Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Scholarship,” is an introductory, interdisciplinary course open to all graduate students. The second, “Genealogies of Feminist Theory,” explores selected current and classical texts organized thematically. Additional “Advanced Topics” courses offer students with a background in feminist scholarship and advanced training in their own fields a rare opportunity to work across interdisciplinary boundaries on major questions in contemporary feminist thought.

In addition to coursework, the Institute offers certification in feminist scholarship. To attain certification, students must complete two courses and take an oral examination. One of the two courses is generally selected from either “Genealogies of Feminism,” (G4000) or “Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Scholarship” (G6920). The second may be chosen by the student from a list of recommended courses. The oral examination (lasting from 45 minutes to one hour) is based on a list of books recommended by the Institute and refined in consultation with the examiners. Students normally take the exam in the Institute and complete it within six months of the departmental exam. With approval, however, they may take the oral exam concurrently with their departmental qualifying examination. Students who wish to attain certification should register with the Institute during the semester before they expect to take the oral examination.

Courses listed in this guide include those with a specific emphasis on gender and feminist scholarship, as well as those taught from a methodological perspective that has been influenced by feminist scholarship.

The Director of Graduate Studies for 2011-2012 is Lila Abu-Lughod. A S S O C I A T E D F A C U L T Y Lila A b u - L u g h o d Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, BC Professor, Anthropology and Women’s & Gender Studies; Director of Graduate Studies Katherine B i e r s Assistant Professor, English Rachel A d a m s Associate Professor, English Elizabeth B l a c k m a r Professor, History Zainab B a h r a n i Associate Professor, Art History Marcellus B l o u n t Elizabeth B e r n s t e i n Associate Professor, English

5 Ellen G r a y Susan B o y n t o n Assistant Professor, Music Assistant Professor, Music Patricia G r i e v e Elizabeth C a s t e l l i Professor, Spanish Associate Professor, Religion, BC Farah Jasmine G r i f f i n Laura C i o l k o w s k i Professor, English and African-American Studies Assistant Professor, English, Comparative Saidiya H a r t m a n Literature, and Women’s & Gender Studies Professor, English; Director, Institute for Jean Louise C o h e n Research on Women and Gender Professor, Political Science Anne H i g o n n e t Elaine C o m b s - S c h i l l i n g Professor, Art History, BC Associate Professor, Anthropology Jennifer H i r s c h Susan C r a n e Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences Professor, English Marianne H i r s c h Julie C r a w f o r d Professor, English & Women’s and Gender Associate Professor, English Studies

Patricia D a i l e y Ellie H i s a m a Assistant Professor, English Professor, Music

Jenny D a v i d s o n Jean H o w a r d Associate Professor, English Professor, English Martha H o w e l l Victoria F. D e G r a z i a Professor, History Professor, History Janet J a k o b s e n Madeleine D o b i e Director, Center for Research on Women, BC Associate Professor, French Eleanor J o h n s o n Ann D o u g l a s Assistant Professor, English; Director of Parr Professor, Comparative Literature Undergraduate Studies

Priscilla Parkhurst F e r g u s o n Rebecca J o r d a n - Y o u n g Professor, Sociology Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, BC Helene F o l e y Natalie B o y m e l K a m p e n Professor, Classics, BC Professor Emeritus Jean F r a n c o Professor Emeritus (retired) Laura K a y Professor, Physics, BC Katherine F r a n k e Professor & Vice Dean, School of Law

Lynn F r e e d m a n Alice K e s s l e r - H a r r i s Professor, School of Public Health

6 Professor, History and Women’s & Gender Professor, Anthropology and Women’s & Studies Gender Studies

Irena K l e p f i s z Quandra P r e t t y m a n Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Senior Associate, English, African American BC Women Writers, BC

Liza K n a p p Anupama R a o Associate Professor, Slavic Languages Assistant Professor, History, BC Dorothy K o Professor, History, BC Carol S a n g e r Professor, School of Law Elisabeth L a d e n s o n Associate Professor, French Barbara S i m o n Professor, School of Social Work Eugenia L e a n Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Joseph S l a u g h t e r Culture Associate Professor, English

Sharon M a r c u s Gayatri C h a k r a v o r t y S p i v a k Associate Professor, English Professor, English; Director CCLS Paul S t r o h m Ruth M c C h e s n e y Professor, English Assistant Professor, Biology, BC Susan S t u r m Christia M e r c e r Professor, School of Law Professor, Philosophy

Rosalind M o r r i s Timea S z e l l Professor, Anthropology Senior Lecturer, English, BC

Frances N e g r o n - M u n t a n e r Neferti T a d i a r Assistant Professor of Latino/a Studies & English Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, BC Kendall T h o m a s Alondra N e l s o n Professor, School of Law Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies Lisa T i e r s t e n Associate Professor, History, BC Susan P e d e r s e n Professor, History Carole V a n c e Associate Professor, Sociomedical Science Greg P f l u g f e l d e r Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Diane V a u g h a n Culture Professor, Sociology

Caterina P i z z i g o n i Karen V a n D y c k Assistant Professor, History Professor, Greek

Elizabeth P o v i n e l l i Gauri V i s w a n a t h a n

7 Professor, English, Comparative Literature Emma L. W i n t e r Assistant Professor, History Dorothea von M ü c k e Professor, Germanic Languages Susan W i t t e Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

Marcia W r i g h t Professor, History

For other Columbia and Barnard Faculty with teaching interests in Women’s and Gender Studies, please visit the IRWAG and Barnard Department of Women’s Studies websites.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/ http://www.barnard.edu/crow/

Please note: Undergraduate students may not enroll in graduate courses without written permission from the instructor. Please double check all course offerings with departments and on the web for changes and additions. W O M E N ’ S & G E N D E R S T U D I E S C O U R S E S S p r i n g 2 0 1 2

BC1050 WOMEN AND HEALTH. 3pts. Call #02215 R. Jordan-Young, TR 1:10-2:25pm, TBA An introduction to women's health across the life span; course emphasizes the scientific basis of present knowledge. Instructors integrate biology with sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, medicine, and women's studies to explore the diverse influences on women's health.

V3111 FEMINIST TEXTS, I: WOLLSTONECRAFT TO BEAUVOIR. 4 pts. Call #03600 T. Sheffield, N. Kampen, L. Ciolkowski, R 2:10-4pm, TBA The important contributions to feminist thought in the West, evaluated through critical discussion. Analysis of works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, Anna Cooper, Radclyffe Hall, C. P. Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, and others in an attempt to discover the roots of the contemporary feminist movement.

V3112 FEMINIST TEXTS, II: BEAUVOIR TO PRESENT. 4pts. Call #23332 A. Kessler-Harris, T 2:10-4, 754 Schermerhorn Extension Contemporary issues in feminist thought. A review of the theoretical debates on sex roles, feminism and socialism, psychoanalysis, language, and cultural representations. Authors include Simone de Beauvoir, J. S. Mill, A. Kollantai, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.

BC3117 WOMEN AND FILM. 3pts.

8 Call #03612 M. Joseph, T 6:10-9 pm, R 9-10:50am, TBA A critical interpretation of film from a feminist perspective and explanation of the relationship of gender to the language of film.

BC3509 GENDER, KNOWLEDGE, AND SCIENCE IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY. 4pts. Call #08742 D. Coen, M 11am-12:50pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

BC3514 HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO FEMINIST QUESTIONS. 4pts. Call #03813 I. Asaka, w 2:10-4pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

BC3515 WOMEN IN ISRAEL: AN INTRODUCTION. 4pts. Call #01674 I. Klepfisz, T 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

BC3519 SEX WORK AND SEX TRAFFICKING: EMPOWERMENT, EXPLOITATION, AND THE POLITICS OF SEX. 4pts. Call #08307 K. Kaye, T 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

V3522 SENIOR SEMINAR II. 4pts. Call #75281 S. Hartman, T 12-2pm, TBA Seminar for the preparation of the senior thesis for Columbia’s Women’s and Gender Studies majors. Individual research in Women’s and Gender Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor.

W3915 GENDER AND POWER IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. 4pts. Call #04266 K. Kaye, R 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

W4300 ADVANCED TOPICS IN WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES. 4pts. Call #72213 J. Robinson-Appels, F 4:10-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension These seminars are directed toward students with previous work in feminist scholarship but are open to all majors. Topics vary with the instructor and students should therefore check with the department each term.

BC4308 SEXUALITY AND SCIENCE. 4pts. Call #09389 R. Jordan-Young, W 9-10:50am, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

V4320 THINKING SEXUALITY. 4pts. Call #76497 G. Pflugfelder, T 4:10-6pm, 755 Schermerhorn Extension The course will cover a range of (mostly U.S. and mostly 20th-Century) materials that thematize gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender experience and identity. We will study fiction and autobiographical texts, historical, psychoanalytic, and sociological materials, queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality

9 and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. We will also investigate connections between the history of LGBT activism and current events. Authors will include Foucault, Freud, Butler, Sedgwick, Anzaldua, Moraga, Smith. Students will present, and then write up, research projects of their own choosing.

G4000 GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM: THE SUBJECT(S) OF RIGHTS. 3pts. Call #84536 L. Abu-Lughod, W 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension The rights of women and sexual minorities have been central to feminism theory and activism. What is the genealogy of "rights talk"? What is its feminist genealogy? As the liberal language of rights has become hegemonic, in particular through international instruments that have linked women's and sexual rights to human rights and as liberal reform goes global, what is hidden from view? What understandings are foreclosed? What politics are blocked? This course will examine these key questions by exploring feminist and other critiques of liberal paradigms; considering alternative languages and practices for emanicipation, for example, Marxist thought, socialist practice, or Islamic law and its local practices; and reflecting on assumptions about the human embedded in liberalism, including the idea of human development and capability. Readings include T. Asad., J. Butler, W. Brown, S. Hartman, J. Massad, M. Nussbaum, E. Povinelli, L. Rofel, C. Walley, M. Wollestonecraft and others. C R O S S L I S T E D C O U R S E S

V3813 COLLOQUIUM ON FEMENIST INQUIRY. 4 pts, (Sociology). Call #97051 A. Nelson, M 4:10-6pm, TBA Description.

W3301 CLARISSA. 4 pts, (English). Call #86649 J. Davidson, M 11am-12:50pm, TBA This course is equivalent with the graduate course G6301 with call #99780. Please refer to the department website for a full description.

W4383 EUROPEAN SEXUAL MODERNITIES. 4 pts, (History). Call #18706 J. Surkis, M 2:10-4pm, TBA Explores how conceptions of desire and sexuality, gendered and raced bodies, shaped major events and processes in modern Europe: the Enlightenment and European empires; political and sexual revolutions; consumption and commodity fetishism; the metropolis and modern industry; psychoanalysis and the avant-garde; fascism and the Cold War; secularization, and post- socialism. Featuring: political and philosophical tracts; law, literature and film.

O4791 VISIONARY DRAMAS AND DRAMATIC VISIONS IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES. 3 pts, (English). Call #82279 E. Johnson, TR 2:40-3:55pm, 602 Hamilton Hall This class is designed to interrogate the genre-boundary that has traditionally separated visionary writings from dramatic ones in the study of English medieval literature. Although this separation has long existed in scholarship, it is deeply problematic, and produces an understanding of the relationship between private devotion and publically performed religious ritual that is untenable, and does considerable violence to our understanding of the medieval imagination. As we will see, notionally "private" visionary writings and notionally "public" dramatic writings have a great deal in common, not just in terms of their overt content, but also in terms of their formal construction, their poetic devices, their favorite rhetorical maneuvers,

10 and their articulated relationship with history and English literature. The works we will read this term are all phenomenally strange, many of them extremely difficult because of their unfamiliarity. For this reason, we will divide the semester into three sections: the first will deal with the famous medieval cycle dramas, which narrate events from the New Testament. The second section will transition to examine three important visionary texts that were written between 1370 and 1430, contemporaneous with the efflorescence of dramatic composition and performance in England. The final section of class will turn to examine the so-called "morality plays," which emerge just slightly after the cycle dramas and after the visionary works we will have read. Since these works are linguistically challenging, we will sometimes-but not always-be working with translations.

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A F R I C A N A S T U D I E S BC3562 CARIBBEAN SEXUALITIES. Call #01594 M. Horn, R 2:10-4pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

BC3589 BLACK SEXUAL POLITICS IN U.S. POPULAR CULTURE. Call #05588 C. Naylor, T 2:10-4pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S W3931 DISABILITY, EMBODIMENT, & SOCIAL JUSTICE. Call #17099 R. Adams, W 2:10-4pm, TBA What does it mean to be disabled in America? This course approaches disability less as a medical condition affecting individual bodies than as a social, environmental, and historical phenomenon. We will investigate the role of culture in shaping and reflecting on disability in contemporary American culture. How have philosophers, policy makers, authors and artists framed the political and ethical debates surrounding the status of disability? How have imaginative representations in literature, film, and the visual arts contributed to and/or challenged those understandings? Given that nearly every one of us will be disabled at some point in life, these questions could not be more important. This course seeks to address them by considering a broad array of texts, including philosophical debates about morality and ethics, history, and literary, filmic, and visual representations. In addition to our consideration of cultural representations, an experiential learning requirement will also give students the opportunity to work closely with an organization dedicated to serving the needs of people with disabilities. A N T H R O P O L O G Y G4289 WOMEN IN POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION. Ukraine, Russia, Poland in Focus Call #91498 O. Kis, W 11am-12:50pm This course will introduce students to the post-socialist transformations in Eastern Europe from the gender perspective. By focusing on Ukraine, Poland and Russia, we will examine the multidimensional impact of radical political, social, economic and cultural changes onto women's lives. Exploring challenges women faced in transition from state socialism to market economy and democracy women will be analyzed as both targets and agents of changes. The role of schooling and media in women's gendered socialization, ways of (re)construction of old/new models of femininity, women's responses to demographic crisis and alteration of family roles, women's agency and representation in politics, as well as women's economic strategies and employment behaviors will be examined. Special attention will be given to the problems faced by women migrant workers abroad and those subject to trafficking. International debates on collisions of feminist and traditionalist ideologies in the new women's activism and controversies of introducing women's and gender studies in post-socialist academic disourse will be discussed as well to enable students' better understanding of complexity of emerging women's movements

12 and institutionalization of feminist scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe. Undergraduates may enroll with the permission of the instructor. A R T H I S T O R Y BC3675 FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN THE VISUAL ARTS: THE 1970’S AND 1980’S . Call #08335 R. Deutsche, TR 1:10-2:25pm Examines art and criticism of the 1970s and 1980s that were informed by feminist and postmodern ideas about visual representation. Explores postmodernism as (1) a critique of modernism, (2) a critique of representation, and (3) what Gayatri Spivak called “a radical acceptance of vulnerability.” Studies art informed by feminist ideas about vision and subjectivity. Places this art in relation to other aesthetic phenomena, such as modernism, minimalism, institution-critical art, and earlier feminist interventions in art. A T H E N A C E N T E R F O R L E A D E R S H I P S T U D I E S BC3450 WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP. Call #04851 A. Lewis, T 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. E A S T A S I A N L A N G U A G E S A N D C U L T U R E S W4560 WOMEN VISIONARIES – TIBET/EAST ASIA. Call #09734 A. Pitkin, T 11am-12:50pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. E C O N O M I C S BC2010 THE ECONOMICS OF GENDER. Call #04161 K. Mammen, MW 1:10-2:25pm, TBA Examination of gender differences in the U.S. and other advanced industrial economies. Topics include the division of labor between home and market, the relationship between labor force participation and family structure, the gender earnings gap, occupational segregation, discrimination, and historical, racial, and ethnic group comparisons. E N G L I S H BC3133 EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS. Call #03694 K. Hall, R 4:10-6pm, TBA Despite popular conceptions insisting that the ideal Renaissance woman was silent, as well as chaste and obedient, many women in the early modern period (c. 1550-1800) defied such sentiments by writing, circulating and publishing their own literature. Under the influence of humanism, a generation of educated women arose who would become both the audience for and contributors to the great flowering of literature written in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. As we examine how these women addressed questions of love, marriage, age, race and

13 class, we will also consider the roles women and ideas about gender played in the production of English literature. We will read from a range of literary (plays & poetry) and non-literary (cookbooks, broadside, midwifery books) texts.

W3962 AUSTEN, BRONTE, GASKELL. Call #62597 M. Cohen, R 11am-12:50pm, TBA The novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell map much of the terrain for English nineteenth-century narrative. Writing within the tradition of the novel of education, these daughters of Protestant clergymen fashion a fictional discourse posed to explore the liabilities and liberties of a narrative realism that privileges the marriage plot, psychological portraiture, and vocation. Reading these books in two sets of triads (country versus city: Mansfield Park, Villette, North and South; and the Governess's Story: Emma, Jane Eyre, Wives and Daughters), we will trace how these authors simultaneous invent and resist ideas about privacy, property, duty, subversion, gender identity and realism itself. The last few weeks will culminate in a reading of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as a powerful response to this literary heritage. Requirements: short midterm paper, long final paper, weekly response pages.

W4503 20TH CENTURY POETRY: RACE, GENDER, POETIC FORM. Call #26396 M. Golston, TR 2:40-3:55pm, 503 Hamilton Hall Intersections between discourses of race and gender physiology and the rhetoric of poetic form. Poets to include Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Stein, H. D., Lawrence, Eliot, Hart Crane, Williams, Langston Hughes, Zukofsky read against contemporary texts from various scientific and humanistic disciplines, including psychology, physiology, musicology, dance theory, philosophy, and poetics.

G6633 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. Black Masculinities Call #76100 M. Blount, M 4:10-6pm, TBA This seminar will explore the ways in which African American men are represented and theorized through a range of cultural, historical, and political texts. I am particularly interested in literary and filmic portrayals of black men: from the “extravagant masculinity” of David Walker’s Appeal (1829) to how young black men are socialized in and through such television shows as The Wire and the popular fictions of E. Lynn Harris. In looking at both canonical and less-studied texts, we will deconstruct notions of genre and, especially, narrativity. How do black men tell their individual and collective stories? How do they contest the false parameters of social protest by enacting a fuller sense of black interiority? What is the relationship between masculinities and sexualites? How does gender function as an analytical category through which to understand race? Course Requirements: mandatory attendance and class participation; bi-weekly use of CourseWorks discussion board; optional class presentation; one fifteen to twenty page essay that might serve as the basis for future research. F I L M S T U D I E S R4016 SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FILM: “QUEER CINEMA CLASSICS.” Call #93399 E. Turk, W 2-5:45pm, 511 Dodge Explores how expressions of same-sex desire, in the hands of highly imaginative filmmakers, can open up fresh artistic possibilities for the medium of film, and impel viewers to rethink assumptions about human relations, pleasures, and ethics. Focus on the heyday of international New Queer Cinema (1982-1992), with works by Jarman, Almodovar, Fassbinder, Van Sant, Araki, Collard, and on subsequent mainstreaming of representations of queer desire, especially in Hollywood productions. Readings in film analysis and aspects of queer theory.

14 F I R S T Y E A R S E M I N A R BC1295 EQUALITY BETWEEN THE SEXES. Call #02886 C. Ullman, TR 1:10-2:25pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

BC1327 WOMEN AND CULTURE II. Call #02667 G. Fleischer, TR 4:10-5:25pm, TBA The course examines constraints on canonicity, especially as they pertain to the portrayal of women in literature and culture. The curriculum explores a diverse range of intellectual and experiential possibilities for women, and it challenges traditional dichotomies--culture/nature, logos/pathos, mind/body--that cast gender as an essential attribute rather than a cultural construction. Readings include Milton, Paradise Lost; Leonora Sansay, Secret History; Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Emily Dickinson, selected poetry; Sigmund Freud, selected essays; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Gertrude Stein, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights; Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather.

BC1464 GOD, WOMEN, AND ISLAM. Call #07009 H. Kamaly, MW 2:40-3:55pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. H I S T O R Y BC3865 GENDER AND POWER IN CHINA. Call #07500 D. Ko, TR 2:40-3:55pm, TBA This course explores the power dynamics of gender relations in Chinese history and contemporary society. Specifically, we seek to understand how a range of women--rulers, mothers, teachers, workers, prostitutes, and activists--exercised power by utilizing available resources to overcome institutional constraints.

W4855 GENDER AND FEMINISM IN SOUTH ASIA: ANTHROPOLOGICAL HISTORY. Call #23352 J. Bakhle, M 2:10-4pm "Feminist history" is a concept that encompasses a wide and rich range of histories of ideas, issues, movements, and contemporary controversies. In this seminar we will examine the history of feminist movements, anthropological descriptions of South Asian women's lives and cultures, political tracts on contemporary issues with older genealogies, and historical/anthropological monographs dealing with specific scandals associated with women's bodies, such as dowry murders, or honor killings. The seminar will progress thematically rather than geographically, and will address issues specific to the lives of women in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Beginning with the British colonial period in South Asia (1757-1947/8) it will address the impact of missionary and colonial policies associated with reform on the lives of women, moving onto the nationalist period, partition, and the post-nationalist milieu. The course is divided into four sections: Colonialism and law/property/education and reform; Nationalism, religion and identity ; Violence/Conflict and Minority Struggles; Globalization and its discontents.

BC4870 GENDER AND MIGRATION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. Call #07446 J. Moya, W 2:10-4pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

15 BC4886 FASHION. Call #06492 D. Ko, T 6:10-8pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

W4985 CITIZEN, RACE, GENDER, & POLITICS/EXCLUSION. Call #16049 C. Smith-Rosenberg, W 11am-12:50pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. H U M A N R I G H T S G4404 HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN. Call #11152 S. Dauer, R 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. I N T E R N A T I O N A L A F F A I R S U6370 WOMEN & GLOBAL LEADERSHIP. Call #20948 M. Wolfe, R. Rashid, R 4:10-6pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

U6373 GENDER POLICY PRACTICUM. Call #60282 R 9-10:50am, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description.

U8785 GENDER, POLITICS, & DEVELOPMENT. Call #17498 M. Weisgrau, E. McGill, M 2:10-4pm, TBA Please refer to the department website for a full description. L A W L9232 SEXUALITY & GENDER LAW CLINIC. Call #10281 S. Goldberg Please refer to the department website for a full description. M U S I C V3462 MUSIC, GENDER, PERFORMANCE. Call #78297 E. Gray, TR 6:10-7:25pm, 622 Dodge This seminar explores relationships between gender, music and performance from the perspective of ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, critical music studies, feminist and queer theory and performance studies. We examine debates around issues of sex and gender and nature and culture through the lens of musical performance and experience. Some questions we consider include: In what ways is participation in particular music dictated by gendered conventions? What social purpose do these delineations serve? What might music tell us about the body? What is the relationship between performance and the ways in which masculinity and feminity, homosexuality and heterosexuality are shaped? How can we think about the concept of nation via gender and music? How might the gendered performances and the voices of musical

16 celebrities come to represent or officially "speak" for the nation or particular publics? How does music shape our understanding of emotion, our experience of pleasure? P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E W3626 GENDER & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Call #26539 E. Blanchard, TR 11am-12:15pm, TBA This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction to a way of analyzing and researching global politics and international relations that takes gender seriously as a category of analysis. The course is particularly concerned with the ways in which gender is implicated in the construction of international relations, how this impacts the foreign policies of states, and what this means for the actions of other actors in world politics, such as non- governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations (IOs), and social movements. P S Y C H O L O G Y BC3152 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY. Call#01798 W. McKenna, M 2:10-4pm, TBA This seminar is a critical examination of research and theory in human sexuality. The first part of the course is an overview of influential social science research on sexuality during the 20th century. The second part is a detailed investigation of contemporary research and writing on selected issues in human sexual behavior, including sexual socialization, gender and sexuality, and contemporary approaches to understanding psychosexual disorders. R E L I G I O N W4614 DEFINING MARRIAGE. Call#00142 G. Kenny, T 2:10-4pm, TBA This seminar examines the changing purpose and meaning of marriage in the history of the United States from European colonization through contemporary debates over gay marriage. Topics include religious views of marriage, interracial marriage, and the political uses of the institution. S O C I O L O G Y V3220 MASCULINITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW. Call#09277 P. Levin, TR 9:10-10:25am, TBA Examines the cultural, political, and institutional forces that govern masculinity. Focuses on various meanings of "being a man" and the effects these different types of masculinity have on both men and women. Explores some of the variation among men and relationships between men and women.