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Spring 2002
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for Spring 2002.
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Core course for women's studies. Introduces feminisms by focusing on the Third World instead of beginning with the development of feminism in North America and "looking out" to the Third World. The meanings of feminism are created in very specific historical and local contexts. By centering women's experience, feminism forces society to reconceptualize such basic concepts as power, politics, and work. General Education Codes: IH, E. Mandatory sections will be listed in the addendum to the spring schedule of classes. Call # 61844
Instructor: Jenny Chin
MWF 11:00 AM-12:10 PM, Porter 250
A student-directed seminar. Explores and analyzes representations of Asian Americans in American popular culture through film, literature, television, and print media. Problematizes images of Asian Americans through formations of gender, ethnic identity, class, and sexuality. Enrollment restricted to 15. Call # 61878
Instructor: Lucy Mae San
Pablo Burns
TTh 10:00-11:45 AM, Kresge Town Hall
Examines the social, political, and artistic concerns explored in and through theater by women of color. Focus on readings of performance texts and critical writings, viewing of video recording of performance and live performance, and writing about women of color and theater from anthropology, history, and critical theory. Examines the growing critical presence and practice of women artists of color who are creating a visual canvas of the world as they live and experience it. Through performance, dramaturgy, and research, students participate in the documentation of the works by these artists. Course enrollment limited to 20. General Education Codes: E, A. Call # 60986
Instructor: Anjali Arondekar
TTh 2:00-3:45 PM, Kresge 327
Provides an introduction to the defining issues surrounding "women of color" in the U.S. Explores the term "women of color" as a coalitional term that brings together forms of knowledge surrounding our understanding of African American, Chicana, Native American and Asian American women; with simultaneous focus on our acts of interpretation and critique in looking at "women of color" as an emergent and subjective socio-political phenomenon. General Education Code: E Course limited to 70. Mandatory sections will be assigned during the first week of class. Call # 60988
Instructor: Emily Honig
Th 4:00-7:00 PM, Kresge 319
Focusing on autobiographical, fictitious, and filmatic narratives about the Chinese revolution, this course explores the history of women in China during the twentieth century; how their role in the family and work force were affected by the social, economic, and political transformations that accompanied the Chinese revolution. Enrollment limited to 24 sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Prerequisite: WMST 1A or 1B; a course in modern Chinese history is recommended. General Education Code: E. Call # 61014
Instructor: Bettina Aptheker
TTh 2:00-3:45 PM, Kresge 319
Designed to train students in oral history and memoir writing. Emphasizes the specialness of women's voices; race, class, and sexuality, women's silence, erasure, censorship, and marginalization are addressed. The politics of memory, narratives, storytelling, and editorial judgment are considered. Enrollment limited to 21 senior Women's Studies majors. General Education Code: W. Prerequisites: WMST 1A or 1B and WMST 100. Call # 61848
Instructor: Helene Moglen
M 3:30-6:30 PM, Porter 246
After studying essays by Freud, Lacan, and Melanie Klein which have been central to the construction of feminist theory, considers the writings of such feminist theorists as Jessica Benjamin, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Juliet Mitchell, Jacqueline Rose, Carolyn Steedman, and Maria Torok. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: Graduate or senior status with permission of instructor based on narrative evaluations and sample essays. Call # 61850
Instructor: Anjali Arondekar
T 4-7:00 PM, Porter 246
Explores the interrelated, epistemological frameworks of critical race studies and queer studies. Through a study of philosophical, scientific and literary texts, we will historicize and theorize 19th and 20th century discourses of race and sexuality. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. Call # 61022