Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Course List ~ Spring 2015 Course Course Title Block Instructor ANTH 039-07 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture J + tr Jaysanne-Darr ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology D + tr Chudakova ANTH 185-17 Altered States: Anthropology of Consciousness and Transformation 5+ Pinto ANTH 178 Animals and Posthuman Thought 12+ Blanchette ARB 92-01 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East 12 Abowd BIO 012 Human Reproduction and Development I + mw Ernst ED192 Radical Lesbian Thought 6+ Vaught ENG 46 Girls’ Books L+tr Genster ENG 88 Film Noir and the American Tradition E+mw Edelman ENG 92 Feminism in Twentieth-Century US Literature and Culture L + tr Johnson ENG 154 American Indian Writers J+tr Ammons ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature F+tr Ammons ENG 180 Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism I+mw Edelman FAH 92 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life F+ Zavala FR 192-C Francophone Women Writers from the Maghreb F + tr Schub FR192-E Eros & Destiny: George Sand & Balzac in Dialogue J+ Naginski HST 33 Women in America since the 1950s G + mw Drachman HST 96 Nature and Knowledge 3r Rankin HST 193 North America: Girlhood in the 1930's 8 + r Drachman INTR 92 Quantitative Research Methods J+tr Brown/Remick MUS 185 Studies in Women in Music 1 t Bernstein PS 129 African Politics I+mw Robinson PS 188-03 Gender Issues in World Politics I+mw Eichenberg REL 78 Jewish Women TBD Ascher * REL 104 Feminist Theologies H + tr Hutaff REL 106 Religion, Violence and Sexuality D + tr Lemons RUS 70 Gender and Politics in Russian Culture J + tr Marquette SOC 149-17 Theories of Femininity F+tr Weber SOC 149-06 Sexuality and Society TR 9-10:15 Weber SPN 192 Women´s Short Stories in 20th Century Latin America G+ Palou ** WGSS 72 Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies F + tr Jaysane-Darr WGSS 85-01 Queer Narratives J + tr Testa WGSS 85-02 Transgender Lives 7 Weber WGSS 92 Rape Crisis and Recovery 8 + r Brown WGSS 99 WGSS Internship ARR Director WGS S180 Independent Research in WGSS ARR Director ** WGSS 193 WGSS Senior Project ARR Director WGSS 199 WGSS Senior Honors Thesis ARR Director * Core course for the WGSS major/minor **Required course for the WGSS major/minor NOTE FOR ALL COURSES: To count a course towards a WGSS major or minor, significant writing/research projects must focus on a relevant topic in the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

Tufts graduate students and undergraduates doing advanced research in women’s, gender, or sexuality studies can apply to take courses through the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies. For details visit the GCWS web site CRWS 291-A Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies 9/3/14-5/5/15 Weds. 5:15–8:15PM CRWS 292-A Feminist Inquiry 2/2-15-/11/15 Mons. 6-9 PM CRWS 292-C Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology 2/5-5/14/15 Thur. 4-7 PM

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ANTH 039-07 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture J+tr Jaysanne-Darr In this course, we will examine the ways individuals and societies imagine, experience, impose and challenge gender and sexuality systems in a diversity of socio-cultural settings. Specific concepts to be addressed include the place of the body and biology in theories of sex and gender; cross-cultural ideas of masculinity; gender and the division of labor in the global economy; the complex relationship between sexual and gendered identities; perspectives on queer sexualities and transgenders cross-culturally; and gendered forms of violence.

ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology D+tr Chudakova This course introduces students to the central topics and methodological approaches in medical anthropology. We will track how different medical systems and institutions — Western biomedicine among them — conceive of and act upon individual and collective bodies and subjects. Drawing from both classical and contemporary texts, we interrogate how social, political, and economic forces shape medicine, illness, and healing, and how these are made into objects of inquiry in the social sciences. Topics will include an examination of meaning, belief, and efficacy; the role of medicine in statecraft and colonialism; public health and population management; global health and humanitarianism; environmental health and the distribution of risk; cross-cultural theories of the body; the intersections between medicine and capital; and the effects and promises of new medical technologies. We will pay special attention to the ways in which race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender structure and are structured by medicine and its interventions. This course counts towards the Social Sciences distribution requirement and the World Civilization requirement. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor

ANTH 185-17 Altered States: Anthropology of Consciousness and Transformation 5+ Pinto This course approaches the anthropological study of experience by looking at the cultural production and management of altered states consciousness. Our course will focus on four “altered states” – hysteria, psychosis, spirit possession, trance – asking how each figures in relation to power structures, gender and sexuality, knowledge practices, and ethics. Considering the presence of hysterical afflictions, schizophrenia, spirit and deity possession, and healing trance states in a range of sites and time periods, we will think historically and cross-culturally about the ways transformations in consciousness involve ways of knowing selves and others, responding to social stratifications, and crafting new worlds. Rather than approaching these experiences solely from the perspective of illness, we will consider them through the lenses of transformation and subjectivity. Likewise, we will pay attention to their unique attributes, paying special attention to the ways altered states, and ways of understanding them, provide different kinds of material for thinking about the relationship between body, gender, and experience.

ANTH 178 Animals and Posthuman Thought 12+ Blanchette Marshals animal rights, and other attempts to offer a new social contract across species lines, as a lens to examine changing forms of Western politics and consciousness about life, nature, and the idea of the human. Intensive reading of works by Haraway, Foucault, Derrida, and Latour. Topics include the concept of the animal, domestication, anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, biopolitics, factory farming, consumption of food and clothing, changing experiences of life and death, genetic engineering and lively technologies, and non-human agency. This course counts towards the Social Science distribution requirement.

ARB 92-01 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East 12 Abowd This course will explore the fascinating but often misunderstood realms of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through the region’s literature and cinema. Students will examine the diverse cultural and political realities of women and men, boys and girls in a region made and re-made by revolution, social movements, war, colonial power, and anti-colonial resistance. How do these broader realities, traumas, conflicts, and expressions of solidarity impact the lives of men and women in the Middle East? Participants in the class will be introduced to foundational theoretical literature on gender and sexuality and will use those insights to better analyze the diverse and changing experiences of Middle Easterners and the multiple communities of which they are a part. We shall examine the men and women of this important part of the world in their diversity and complexity. This course aims to get students to see the people and communities of the Middle East not as victims in need of “saving,” nor as “problems” representing threats of various kinds but instead as those with agency and the capacity to, in crucial ways, shape and craft their own lives, to write their own histories.

BIO 012 Human Reproduction and Development I+mw Ernst An exploration of human reproduction and development prior to and soon after birth. This course will include topics on sex selection/mate choice; genes and heredity; fertility/infertility and contraception/assisted reproduction technologies; sexually transmitted diseases; birth defects; genetic counseling; designing babies; and embryonic stem cells. The basic biology of these subjects will be covered, as well as current related issues and polices. Will satisfy the Natural Science Distribution Requirement. Prerequisite: high school biology.

ED192 Radical Lesbian Thought 6+ Vaught This course will consider radical lesbian knowledge production during the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Radical lesbian thought encompasses dynamic, complex, and at times contradictory bodies of knowledge. Specifically, we will pay attention to the emergence of educational and activist knowledge movements by tracing early epistolary and news-making endeavors as they gave way to the formation of collective knowledge production across literary, historical, and other disciplinary areas. This course will contextualize the history of radical lesbian thought both inside the academy--as both connected to and in conflict with feminist theory and queer theory--and outside the academy in relation to feminist and queer knowledge movements. Course readings, assignments, and seminar discussions will provide an in-depth focus on critical questions of power in relation to choice, essentialism, and shifting spheres of knowledge and education along tense lines of race, class, and gender. Enrollment by department permission: Junior/Senior and Grad only. Priority to WGSS majors and Education graduate students.

ENG 46 Girls’ Books L+tr Genster In classical mythology, the underworld is the kingdom of the dead; access is forbidden to the living except under extraordinary circumstances. Journeys from upper to lower world involve danger, difficulty and grief and only remarkable mortals venture down and return. In later works the underworld may take the form of a physical hell, or of history or ghosts or spies or madness or criminality, but it continues to haunt, even taunt, the upper world with what it conceals and with what it reveals. We will move from classical representations in Homer and Virgil to those of Dante and Milton, to diverse underworlds in eighteenth and nineteenth and twentieth- century writers. We end with contemporary works, including The Wire. We'll trace out an evolving view of what business the living have in the world of the dead, and what place the underworld occupies in the imagination of the living. Writers to be studied may include Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, John Gay, Dickens, Ellison, Pynchon, Robinson and DeLillo

ENG 88 Film Noir and the American Tradition E+mw Edelman This course will explore film noir as an authentically American cultural product reflecting a fascination with threats to America’s fantasy of its innocence and virtue. We will consider film noir as the symptomatic expression of the contradictions America confronted when it tried to come to terms with its identity as a global power–contradictions reflecting a persistent division or incoherence of identity that produced, in film noir, a genre about incoherence, ambiguity, and the inevitability of interpretative doubt. The femme fatale, the figure on whom the detective’s crisis of interpretation focuses, will occupy a central position in our discussions, and we will trace the insistence of sexual anxiety (the fears provoked by sexually aggressive heterosexual women as well as by sexually transgressive women and men alike) in narratives that thematize the fragility, the vulnerability, of community (especially as questions of racial or ethnic difference are articulated alongside or in terms of the persistent questioning of sexual difference). Linking these dark films of murder, betrayal, and dangerous desires to issues raised by feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic theory, this course aims to analyze a crucial and deeply influential cinematic genre, while reflecting on anxieties that continue to shape the psyche of America. Films to be studied may include The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Gilda, Laura, Out of the Past, The Crimson Kimono, The Woman in the Window, Body Heat, Chinatown, Cutter’s Way, Blood Simple, Basic Instinct, Black Widow, One False Move, Seven, Red Rocks West, and A History of Violence.

ENG 92 Feminism in Twentieth-Century US Literature and Culture L+tr Johnson This course examines how the postwar U.S. women’s movement for equality, born of the mid-twentieth century antiwar and civil rights movements, made civic, legal and ethical changes that are expressed in representations of women in literature and film, in mass and high cultures, and in women’s experiences across race, class, ethnic, and sexual lines. We will study novels, poetry, and essays, as well as films, to explore the impact of second wave feminism on discourses of gender and women’s sexuality. The course will cover critiques made by feminist writers with a view to understanding a central insight of feminism, that forms of knowing are not universal but culturally constructed, contextual, mutable; gendered. Second wave feminism coincided with and helped bring into being postmodernism in U.S. arts and culture. Our study questions how feminism is postmodern and speculates on how postmodernism is in part a feminist production; how the emergence of the postmodern fits with recognitions about gender and liberations of sex and sexualities in the postwar U.S. women’s movement. Readings and screenings will include: Marilyn French, The Women’s Room; Alix Kates Shulman, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen; Alison Bechdel, Dykes to Watch Out For; Chuang Hua, Crossings; Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays; Gayl Jones, Corregidora; Bonnie Bremser, Troia: Mexican Memoirs; Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar; Toni Morrison, Sula. Thelma and Louise dir. Ridley Scott; Revolutionary Road, dir. Sam Mendes; The Stepford Wives, dir. Bryan Forbes. Poetry by Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Diane di Prima, Sonya Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni; essays by Kate Millett, Valerie Solanas, bell hooks, Danzy Senna, Alice Walker, Cherry Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Shulamith Firestone.

ENG 154 American Indian Writers J+tr Ammons Many people can name only one or two Native American writers—or none. Some are even surprised to find they exist. What does this erasure mean? What dominant culture systems create and maintain it today? How do Indigenous writers in the United States refuse and resist this racism? We will begin with three late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century authors, Sarah Winnemucca, Luther Standing Bear, and Zitkala Ša, and then concentrate on six contemporary texts: N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn; Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace; Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead; Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings; Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues; and Wendy Rose,Bone Dance. Throughout the course we will view and discuss films that focus on important issues for Native people today. Also we will study historical and political contexts. Major topics include: the politics of representation/self-representation; Indian resistance to white colonialism, exploitation, and theft; Indigenous people's self-definitions and demand for sovereignty; the relationship between art and political struggle; and our own subject positions and responsibilities in relation to the material in the course. The course is a seminar, so active student participation will be an important element. Majors and nonmajors are welcome. This course fulfills the post- 1860 requirement for the English major and the World Civilizations requirement.

ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature F+tr Ammons Who is most hurt by environmental degradation and abuse and who benefits? This course examines what contemporary world literature has to say about environmental racism, toxic colonialism, ecofeminism, homophobia and the social construction of nature, globalization, and urban ecological issues. We will ask: What analyses and insights can we gain? What is the role of art in the struggle for social change? Reading includes authors from diverse racial and national locations—Zambia, South Africa, multicultural U.S., India, Malawi, Nigeria, China, Guatemala; and primary texts include films, essays,poems, and the following novels andstories: Helena María Viramontes,Under the Feet of Jesus; Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying; Awiakta,Selu; Mo Yan, "Iron Child"; Rigoberta Menchú, "Death of Her Little Brother in the Finca"; Louise Erdrich, Tracks; and Mahasweta Devi, "Paddy Seeds." The goal of this course is empowerment for social change. How can each of us participate as a change agent in the struggle for environmental justice, locally and globally? How can our understanding of literature contribute? Group work, a field trip, one research paper, and active class discussion will be important parts of the course. Nonmajors as well as majors are very welcome. This class counts toward the Women's Studies major, the Environmental Studies major, the Peace and Justice major, and the post-1860 requirement for the English major

ENG 180 Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism I+mw Edelman Psychoanalysis has had a profound effect on the culture and the reading practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As the first discourse to put erotic attachment at the center of human experience, psychoanalytic theory has affected our understanding of sexuality, gender, narrative, social relations, and meaning itself. This class, intended as a tightly knit seminar for students interested in literary and cultural theory, will focus on major psychoanalytic concepts (the unconscious, fantasy, sexual difference, jouissance, the transference, and the death drive) in works by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Alongside these primary texts we’ll put read writings by cultural critics who are likely to include Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Jane Gallop, Barbara Johnson, Adam Phillips, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Slavoj Zizek. In relation to these theoretical engagements with psychoanalysis we’ll study some mainstream cultural responses to psychoanalytic thought to see how psychoanalysis troubled and titillated the popular imagination. These works will are likely to include films (by Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, and Brian de Palma), novels (by Alison Bechdel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ishmael Reed), and popular non-fiction (by Janet Malcolm and Stephen Grosz). No previous study of psychoanalysis or critical theory is required, but students should be prepared for a rigorous critical dialogue about sexuality, interpretation, theory, and culture.

FAH 92-02 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life F+ Zavala Focus on the artistic contributions of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to the dynamic cultural revitalization of Mexico that developed in response to the Revolution of 1910. The artists will be contextualized in relation to cultural and political currents of their day including revolutionary nationalism, indigenism, social realism, and the international Avant Garde. Oneof the central issues of inquiry in this course will be the gendered dynamic of post-revolutionary Mexican society and culture. Kahlo and Rivera will be examined in relation to the roles assigned to women and men within the post-revolutionary nation, how these were conveyed through visual culture, and the place of women artists within the male-dominated establishment. We will also consider the impact of Kahlo and Rivera’s marriage and personal relationship on their artistic practice and output, how their biographies have impacted their reception, and their artistic legacies. (This course may be used to fulfill the post-1700 requirement for theArt History major; the Hispanic and Diaspora culture option; World Civ. Requirement) FR 192-C Francophone Women Writers from the Maghreb F+tr Schub What are the personal and political concerns of women writers from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco who, by their writing, break the “loi d’invisibilité, loi du silence” of their society? Women telling stories to survive, repeating the gesture of Sheherazade in so many different forms: our readings of novels, short stories, and essays by established voices as well as new voices, will be framed by a study of theories of “écriture féminine’ and post-colonial literature. One 5 page paper, one 8-10 page final paper, one oral exposé, class participation.Prerequisite: FR 31 and 32, or consent. Cross-listed as ILVS Counts toward the interdisciplinary Major/Minor in WGSS

FR192-E Eros & Destiny: George Sand & Balzac in Dialogue J+ Naginski “Through our writings, we are preparing a future revolution in the realm of private life.” Thus declared George Sand to Honoré de Balzac in one of the great literary dialogues of the 19th century. With each new novel – and they were published hard and fast, both writers being singularly prolific – the critics unfailingly compared them, making of Balzac the epitome of “Realism” and Sand the epitome of “Idealism.” Both novelists, however, explored fictional realms which transcended such facile oppositions. Rather than see in the two writers representatives of two opposing schools of fiction, this course will examine the question of eros in connection with gender. In our readings we will encounter dreamy young girls on the brink of womanhood, ambitious young men, abandoned women, and so-called “virile” heroines intent on upsetting the social equilibrium. Did erotic love and its failure or triumph tend to determine the destiny of the characters in the fictional worlds of Balzac and Sand? What differences can we discover in the ways in which these models were worked out? We will read short stories and novels in pairs, as a way to gage the differing literary strategies deployed by the two greatest novelists of Romantic France. One short paper (5-6 pages); one long paper (10-12 pages); one exposé or take-home final exam. Active class participation is essential. Prereq: FR 31&32, or consent. Taught in French.

HST 33 Women in America since the 1950s G+mw Drachman Exploration of the progress and challenges in women's lives since the 1950s. An examination of the rise and decline of second-wave feminism, the enduring challenge of juggling women's public lives with domesticity, and the tension between equality and difference in advancing women's lives.

HST 96 Nature and Knowledge 3r Rankin This foundation seminar examines attempts to understand the natural world in western science and philosophy from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. We will focus on varying conceptions of nature and ideas of crimes “against nature.” We begin with medieval personifications of nature as a woman and the modifications to ideas of her power in the Renaissance. We then turn to the Scientific Revolution and examine Carolyn Merchant’s argument that new scientific ideas led to a “death” of feminine nature. The second half of the class examines emerging mechanized ideas of nature in the Enlightenment, followed by Romantic conceptions of the unity of nature, and the changes to these notions wrought by Darwin’s theories of evolution. We end with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the idea of Nature in modern ecology. Throughout the course, we will query the relationship between conceptions of nature and the kind of natural knowledge that emerged. As a foundation seminar, we will also focus on the methodologies of historical research and writing, including discussions of the use of primary and secondary sources; building a historical argument; the use of evidence; and proper citation methods. The class will work closely with rare books in Tisch Library Special Collections.

HST 193 North America: Girlhood in the 1930's 8+r Drachman This course will examine girlhood and coming of age from the post-World War II era to the early 1960s, before the rise of the second wave of feminism.

INTR 92 Quantitative Research Methods J+tr Brown/Remick International Relations students, beginning with the class of 2018, are required to complete a course on research methodology. In addition to accepting courses offered in academic departments, the IR Program is offering one methodology course each semester designed specifically for IR Freshmen and Sophomores. During Spring 2015, the IR Program will introduce INTR 92 Quantitative Research Methods in International Relations. Instructors: Professors Elizabeth Remick (Political Science and IR) and Drusilla Brown (Economics & IR) Professors Remick and Brown will explore research methodology in IR through their shared research interest (but contrasting methodological perspectives) of women and work in developing countries. The course will employ such applied areas as the regulation of prostitution and its importance in state-building, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation and dehumanization in developing country industrial relations to help students learn how to pose a significant research question. We will then develop strategies for obtaining and evaluating data and articulating findings.Methods will include EXCEL, GIS, Statistical Analysis, Case Study Methodology and Program Evaluation. Full credit. Spring term.

MUS 185 Studies in Women in Music 1 t Bernstein This course is intended as a seminar for graduate students, majors/minors in music, and advanced students interested in women's, gender, and sexuality studies with some background in music. Its goal is an exploration of music from around the world from the perspective of women. We will examine the traditions of art music and popular music and the roles women have played as creators, performers, sponsors and consumers in these spheres. The representation of women in music and how it reflects the culture of the past and present will also be touched on. Recent scholarship on gender and its role in the fields of musicology and ethnomusicology as well as other disciplines, including feminist literary criticism and cultural studies will be discussed. Since the course will not concentrate solely on either Western art music or World Music, its overall approach will be topical rather than chronological, allowing for comparative study.

PS 129 African Politics I+mw Robinson Analysis of political developments in contemporary Africa, with emphasis on the interaction between politics and culture. Relates Africa's historical, economic, social, and gender dynamics to general theories of politics and governance. Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing

PS 188-03 Gender Issues in World Politics I+mw Eichenberg This course is a survey of many issues relating to gender in world politics, with a particular emphasis on: gender differences in political attitudes and behavior generally; gender differences in attitudes toward war and national security in particular; the cross-cultural uniformity (or lack thereof) in gender differences in attitudes and political behavior, particularly in relation to national security and war; the role of gender differences in war, in particular how gender roles are created and the effect of war on men and women; violence against women; and the role of gender in world affairs more generally and specifically the role of gender in economic development, environmental sustainability and gender mainstreaming within international institutions.

REL 78 Jewish Women TBD Ascher Images, experiences, and accomplishments of Jewish women in life, literature, and tradition from Biblical times to the present. Focus on individual women from various times and cultures; Discussion of basic issues, present conditions, and prospects. Cross-listed as REL 78 and ILVS 62-01. In English. Cross-list: REL 78/ILVS 62

* REL 104 Feminist Theologies H+tr Hutaff “Feminism,” says theologian Judith Plaskow, “is a process of coming to affirm ourselves as women/persons - and seeing that affirmation mirrored in religious and social institutions.” This course will survey the impact which the growth of feminist/womanist consciousness during the last four decades has had on the religious commitments of women, as well as on traditional religious institutions, beliefs, and practices. We will explore new approaches and methods which recent feminist scholarship has brought to the study of ancient religious texts and other historical sources, and will assess how the inclusion of women’s perspectives is challenging, enlarging, and enriching the craft of theology itself. Also to be considered: the rise of new women’s rituals and alternative spiritualities, and the relationship of religious feminism to other struggles for human dignity and liberation. This course counts toward the Humanities distribution requirement.

REL 106 Religion, Violence and Sexuality D+tr Lemons Analysis of representative theological and ethical positions on current issues related to violence/nonviolence and sexuality in the U.S. Attention will be paid to the treatment of these issues in a variety of religious and secular traditions. Topics include responses to war, terrorism, structural oppressions (such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism) and sexual violence, as well as controversies around reproductive rights and same-sex marriage.

RUS 70 Gender and Politics in Russian Culture J+tr Marquette Examination of how the social, economic, and political institutions in Russia have shaped the perception of women and gender over the scope of Russian history; how both women and men have tried to transcend prescribed gender norms; and how women fulfill their literary, artistic, and spiritual aspirations. Works to be considered will be drawn from folklore, poetry, fiction, painting, and film; authors will include both male and female writers (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya), women painters (Goncharova, Serebriakova) and filmmakers (Shepitko, Muratova). In English; (May be taken at 100-level with added hour in Russian). Cross-list ILVS 0074

SOC 149-17 Theories of Femininity F+tr Weber This course explores the social significance of embodying diverse femininities, both in the United States and in transnational contexts. From witches in Europe to Brazil, drag queens to child beauty pageant contestants, heterosexual women to queer femmes, femininity has often been understood in contradictory terms - as innocence, virtue, caregiving, and normative beauty, as well as weakness, evil, frivolity, and danger. Examining a range of sociological texts and media, we will ask what constitutes femininity and who gets to decide, which types of femininity are upheld as ideal and which are stigmatized, and what the relationship is between femininity and power. What do dominant ideas about both femininity and masculinity tell us about how we think about women and men? We will examine how notions of "proper" and transgressive femininity involve larger regimes of race, class, sexuality, nationality, gender identity, dis/ability, and body size. In analyzing how these norms shift across time and space due to competing ideologies of gender and collective feminist protest, this course is also fundamentally a sociological consideration of feminine resistance. Prerequisites: One Sociology course or one Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course

SOC 149-06 Sexuality and Society TR 9:00-10:15 Weber Sexuality is fundamental to the cultural, economic, political, and social organization of all societies. This course considers sexual meanings and identities, sexual practices and behaviors, issues of power and sexual politics, social norms regarding "appropriate" and "moral" sexualities versus those condemned as "deviant," institutional sexual policing, and resistance by those marginalized for their sexuality, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and asexual people. Topics include historical shifts in understanding sexuality and gender, social movements for sexual inclusion, and the diversity of contemporary kinship structures. Prerequisites: One Sociology course or one Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course

SPN 192 Women´s Short Stories in 20th Century Latin America G+ Palou In this course the student will read and analyze short stories written by women in Latin America. The authors covered are the classics of the genre (Silvina Ocampo, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, Inés Arredondo, Elena Garro) and the youngest writing today (Guadalupe Nettel, Liliana Colanzi, Lina Meruane, Samantha Schweblin, Iris Garcia Cuevas) among others. We will study how the feminine condition has changes as represented in those stories that encompass the 20th Century and part of our 21st.

** WGSS 72 Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies F+tr Jaysane-Darr This course serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, and sexuality in social life. While we know that gender is one of the central organizing features in most societies, many questions remain: Why does gender-based inequality and violence persist? To what degree does biology determine who we are? How can we understand the complexities of sexuality and gender identity? This course takes up these questions and more as we delve into the ways in which categories such as gender and sexuality have been constructed in American life, cross-culturally, and within an increasingly global economic system. Although the implications of these investigations are broad, the perspective we will take is more intimate and person centered, and students will have an opportunity to be introduced to peoples’ experiences and struggles on a micro-level. Topics will include the intersection of gender, race and class; beauty and the body; transgender and queer experiences; masculinity and heteronormativity; and gender on the front lines of war.

WGSS 85-01 Queer Narratives J+tr Testa The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are often cited as the birth of the gay liberation movement and have thus taken on mythic proportions as the starting point for a progressive narrative history of queer life. In many ways, the riots are an arbitrary marker, yet Stonewall is still cited as the event that changed everything for queers. Pre-Stonewall life supposedly meant closets and shame while post-Stonewall life was supposedly about pride and acceptance. Today’s media offers no dearth of messages about what it means to be LGBTQ* after Stonewall. We are told that queers are “born this way” (Are they?), that “it gets better” (Does it?), and that we all desire the “same love” (Do we?). But is this the whole story? In this class, we will consider how individual texts by or about LGBTQ* people engage or reject a progressive narrative history of queer life, as well as how these individual texts are strung together to create such a narrative in the first place. How do some narratives come to be seen as representative of a “universal” queer experience? What impact do these narratives have on us as we navigate our own sexual and gender identities? Is it possible to both identify and disidentify with the cultural narratives of queer life we encounter and perpetuate? What is lost by reading the history of queer life as only ever a move toward “liberation” and “pride”? Who and what gets left out of this narrative? We’ll read theory and criticism by Heather Love, Sarah Ahmed, Robert McCruer, Jose Munoz, Sarah Schulman, and Judith Halberstam; read literature by Gloria Anzaldua, Rabih Alamdeddine, Andrew Holleran, Kit Yan, and Nicky Finney; watch films and television shows from GLEE to The Watermelon Woman; listen to music from Macklemore to Janelle Monae; and study a variety of other texts ranging from obituaries to presidential speeches to youtube videos. Writing assignments and projects will encourage students to explore their own unique relationships to, dependence on, and production of both queer narratives and dominant narratives of queer life.

WGSS 85-02 Transgender Lives 7 Weber This course takes as its point of departure the understanding that gender and sex are a spectrum - or a web, or constellations - rather than a biologically fixed binary comprised of cisgender men and women. In this course we will explore the diverse lives of those who can be described as falling under a transgender umbrella. We will use several modes of inquiry, including historical studies of gender non- conforming people, global examples of communities who transgress gender norms such as hijras in India and travestís in Brazil, film and media representations of trans* people, and both theoretical texts and personal narratives from key scholars in the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies. We will analyze the impact of policing and regulatory systems of power on trans* bodies, in particular medical authorities, the prison-industrial complex, the law, and purportedly feminist spaces. At the same time we will bear witness to voices of trans* liberation continually pushing back on oppression for dignity and empowerment. Central to the theoretical frameworks of the course will be feminist, queer, critical race, postcolonial, and critical disability theories.

WGSS 92 Rape Crisis and Recovery 8+r Brown We will examine issues surrounding rape and domestic violence in the U.S. from a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. We will address myths and facts: societal attitudes, including victim-blaming patterns; post-traumatic syndrome, and the impact of rape and domestic violence on the survivor, their loved ones, and the community at large. We will discuss crisis intervention theory and examine the stages of trauma that victims of violence experience, as well as their experience of MA medical and legal systems. The course material will cover campus and community resources for survivors and where to look for help when faced with past, present and/or future sexual violence. Students may elect to receive the MA State Certification for Rape Crisis Counseling through the completion of this course with perfect attendance.

WGSS 99 WGSS Internship ARR Director Gain experience, make connections, explore career opportunities working alongside individuals, agencies or organizations (private, non- profit, or government), political advocacy groups, or women’s social movements that impact the lives of women. Permission of Director

WGS S180 Independent Research in WGSS ARR Director

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**WGSS 193 WGSS Senior Project ARR Director A one-semester independent project culminating in a substantial interdisciplinary research paper or other creative or activist work with a written component, which explores and tests traditional and contemporary thinking about women and/or gender. Two faculty members from different departments advise student projects. Includes a series of group meetings throughout the academic year. One credit. Fall or spring semester. Permission of Director

WGSS 199 WGSS Senior Honors Thesis ARR Director

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*Core course for the WGSS major/minor.

**Required course for the WGSS major/minor.

NOTE FOR ALL COURSES: To count a course towards a WGSS major or minor, significant writing/research projects must focus on a relevant topic in the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

Courses There is an application process for GCWS courses. Applications are accepted until the enrollment deadline and are reviewed by the seminar instructors immediately following. Students will be notified of their final acceptance two to three days after the deadline. Students may apply after the deadline, pending available space in the class. Please call or email the GCWS at [email protected] for more information about application procedures, member institution cross-registration policies, or credit questions, and visit our web site: http://web.mit.edu/gcws The complete course descriptions and faculty bios are below.

CRWS 291-A Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies FALL & SPRING: Sept. 3, 2014 to May 5, 2015 Wednesdays, 5:15–8:15 PM Meets every other week at MIT, Bldg/Room TBD A writing workshop for graduate students at the dissertation level. Classes will include presentations and discussions of students’ work- in-progress. Discussions will move back and forth between theoretical considerations and practical ones as we address three areas central to dissertation writing: archive, methodology, and interpretation. Students will be asked to reflect on the ways that feminism and gender studies have affected their views of what discourses are considered relevant, worthy, and timely. We will also consider issues of scholarly voice, clarity, and vision. The course will consider how dissertation writers speak to various audiences while maintaining a core feminist engagement. Each student will also give an oral presentation that has been consciously adapted for an interdisciplinary audience. FACULTY: Beth Kowaleski Wallace is a Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches eighteenth-century literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, and feminist theory. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, and she has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century studies and, more recently, on popular culture.

CRWS 292-A Feminist Inquiry Spring: Feb. 2-May 11, 2015, , Mondays 6-9PM, Meets at MIT, Bldg/Room TBD Feminist Inquiry is a seminar designed to investigate the conceptual frameworks that inform practices of feminist interrogation, critique, analysis, and research across a range of disciplines. We will focus on epistemology and methodology: the types of questions asked, the assumptions that serve as foundation, the frameworks that structure the method of inquiry, the values and power relations inherent in particular approached, and the criteria used to determine what constitutes knowledge. Over the last 30 years, feminist epistemologists, theorists, and researchers have developed profound critiques of traditional constructions of Western knowledge and knowledge seeking. How are feminists to construct methods of inquiry that give voice to the multiply located perspectives of the marginalized without replicating the masculinist, racist, classist conceptual structures and methodologies that constitute traditional Western epistemologies? Different questions require different modes of inquiry. In this seminar we will examine the various paths explored by feminist scholars. FACULTY: Jo Trigilio received her Ph.D. (1996) and her MA (1993) in Philosophy from the University of Oregon. She is the Director of the Graduate Program inGender and Cultural Studies at Simmons College, and holds a joint appointment in the departments of Women's and Gender Studies, and Philosophy. Trigilio specializes in oppression/liberation theories, including feminist and gender theories, race theories, sexuality theory, and queer theory and has a special interest in the intersection of theory and practice. Sabina E. Vaught is Associate Professor of Education, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University. Dr. Vaught's scholarship examines the institutional contexts and dynamics of race, gender, education, and power. Her research is grounded in Critical Race Theory and feminist theories.

CRWS 292-C Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology Spring: Feb.5-May 14, 2015, Thursdays, 4–7PM, Meets at MIT, Building and Room TBD Science and Technology are relatively insulated from wider public deliberation -- art and literary criticism are familiar; but not "science criticism." Yet there is a large body of social interpretation of science and technology, to which feminist, anti-racist, and other critical analysts and activists have made significant contributions. Building on this work, this course sets out to challenge the barriers of expertise, gender, race, class, and place that restrict wider access to and understanding of the production of scientific knowledge and technologies. In this spirit, students participate in an innovative, problem-based learning approach that allows you to shape your own directions of inquiry and re-engage with yourselves as avid learners and inquirers. At the same time as you are developing critical faculties as investigators you are also learning tools and processes for teaching and engagement with wider communities. In these inquiries students are guided by individualized bibliographies co-constructed with the instructors and by the projects of the other students. Students from all fields and levels of preparation are encouraged to join and learn about gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology. FACULTY: Peter Taylor is a Professor at UMass Boston, where he directs the graduate programs on Science in a Changing World and Critical and Creative Thinking. His teaching spans biomedical and environmental sciences, science and technology studies, critical pedagogy, and reflective practice. He is the author of Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement and Nature-Nurture? No (forthcoming), co-author of Taking Yourself Seriously: Processes of Research and Engagement, and co-editor of Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities. Kim Surkan has taught in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at MIT since 2005. Dr. Surkan does interdisciplinary work in queer, feminist, and new media studies with a humanities focus, and is currently writing a series of articles on technology and the (trans)gendered body.