WINTER 2000
This information effective for Winter 2000.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: Joanne Barker
MW 3:00-4:45
323 Kresge
Course examines the political and economic histories and cultures of indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada in relationship to colonialism, capitalism, gender/sexuality and race relations. Topics include epistemology, sovereignty and citizenship, tradition, domestic violence and grandmothers. Enrollment is limited to 20 students. Students may not receive credit for this course and History of Consciousness 80N. Call # 36078
Instructor: Tina Campt
TTh 10:00-11:45 am
148 Porter
Examines various ways of representing women's lives, including autobiography, oral history, community studies, fiction, etc. Particular attention to intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, to the ways in which individuals are situated in communities, and to the relationship between author and subject. Enrollment limited to 30. Call # 35744
Instructor: Roxanne Hamilton
TTh 6:00-7:45 pm
325 Kresge
The course focuses on new currents in women's poetry -- since the 1950s -- in revolutionary cultural contexts. It explores the intersection of women's poetry and personal experience (Confessionalism), performance (music and Beat poetry), and protest (feminism, civil rights and the gay/lesbian movement). Texts by Lourde, Plath, Rich and others. Some creative writing by students. Enrollment is limited to 20 students and limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Call # 37070
Instructor: Tina Campt
TTh 4:00-5:45
321 Kresge
The course explores representations of mixed-race identity among women in a variety of texts and popular cultural artifacts. We will consider the impact of these representations, how gender intersects and shapes the race/racial difference for mixed-race women, and how these women challenge traditional conceptions of identity and racial difference. Call #36072
Instructor: Peggy Downes
TTh 12:00-1:45 pm
319 Kresge
Examines how public women make decisions/create images which define our private lives. Compares ways women of the 1950s, 1970s, 1990s balance professional ambitions/personal priorities. Using film/oral histories/case studies, analyzes how goals/strategies/expectations changed over three generations. Enrollment restricted to 20 sophomore, junior and senior students. Call # 36080
Instructor: Samantha Frost
TTh 2:00-3:45 pm
250 College 8
Examines feminist debates about the relationship between power and knowledge. Focuses in particular on the ways in which claims to truth shape feminist politics. Explores the following questions, among others: Do our racial, sexual and class identities affect our access to the truth about racial, sexual, and class politics? Does being a woman position one closer to the truth about gender power? To what extent do claims to truth affect political action? Course 100 recommended but not required. Prerequisite: course 1A or 1B, or by permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 80. Call # 35750
Instructor: Emily Honig
Th 9:00-noon
325 Kresge
A senior seminar. Focuses on issues related to the politics of sexual identity and sexual rights in the Third World. Explores ways in which sexual identity is articulated and defined; at state attempts to control and legislate sexual identity and behavior; and at the emergence of movements for gay and lesbian rights in Third World countries. Prerequisite: course 1B or equivalent. Enrollment restricted to 25 junior and senior students. Call #35760
Instructor: Helene Moglen
F 12:30-3:30
¸348 Kresge
After studying essays by Freud, Lecan and Melanie Klein, which have been central to the construction of feminist theory, we will consider the writings of such feminist theorists as Jessica Benjamin, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Juliet Mitchell, Jacqueline Rose, Carolyn Steedman and Maria Turok. Enrollment restricted to graduate students and seniors by permission of instructor, based on narrative evaluations and sample essays. Call #36076
* Mandatory secondary sections will be assigned during the first week of class.