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WGSS Spring 14 Course Offerings 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 | WGSS Program | 5 The Green, Eaton Hall, Medford, MA 02155 | tel: 617.627.2955 | web: http://ase.tufts.edu/wgss | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2015 Course Descriptions 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
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