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Winter 2004
This information effective for Winter 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Women’s Studies
[WMST-001B] [WMST-042H] [WMST-088A] [WMST-122] [WMST-145] [WMST-194I]
1B. Introduction to Third World Feminisms
Instructor:
Emily Honig
TTH 10:00-11:45 am
Kresge 321
Course Description:
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. Enrollment limited to 156. (General
Education Codes: IH, E.) Mandatory sections to be assigned during the
first week of class. Call #36974
42H. Student-Directed Seminar. Feminism and Spectatorship: Power and the Production of Meanings
Instructor:
Lucia Blanchet-Fricke
TTH 6:00-9:00 pm
Crown 203
Course Description:
Student-directed
seminar. Introductory film and television studies class, considers the
spectator/viewer's position in relation to visual culture within a feminist
framework. Emphasis on critical and/or alternative viewing practices.
Uses feminist theory, film theory, television studies, and cultural studies.
Enrollment limited to 15 frosh and sophomore students. Call #38562
88A.
Women's Cultures of the Southwest
Two-credit Discovery Seminar Course
Instructor:
Bettina Aptheker
TH 10:00-11:45 am
Cowell 223
Course Description:
A critical
examination of contemporary women's cultures of the Southwest focusing
on the expressive arts, including painting, pottery, sculpture, weavings,
poetry, fiction, and oral histories of Native American, Hispanic, and
Anglo women. Limited to 22 frosh and sophomore students. Call #38720
122.
The Travels and Translations of Feminist Theories
*** Special Opportunity—Visiting Brazilian Professor! ***
In the face of the global flows of capital, ideas, and commodities, there is a growing need for feminists to engage in productive dialogues and negotiations across multiple geopolitical borders.
Instructor:
Claudia de Lima Costa
TTH 4:00-5:45 p.m.
Crown 202
Course Description:
This seminar will examine the travels and cultural translations of feminist theories/ ideas/ discourses/ practices in different locations and their subsequent translations in order to highlight elements of appropriation and subversion occurring in different institutional, discursive, and ideological domains. Enrollment limited to 20 juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Call #38726
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This research seminar maps the flows of feminist knowledge and cultural production across multiple geopolitical and theoretical borders, with a special emphasis on processes of cultural translation in the Americas, and examines the travel of feminist theories across different locations and their subsequent cultural translations. Texts may include selected readings from Discrepant Dislocations, Scattered Hegemonies, Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, and a course reader.
The course will conclude with an analysis of the debates around Latin American testimonio as an illustration of the vexing problems of cultural translation and the theorization of women's "experience."
Claudia
de Lima Costa is a Brazilian feminist theorist who teaches
cultural studies and literary theory at the Federal University of Santa
Catarina, in Florianópolis. She received her Ph.D. from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-editor of the Brazilian feminist
studies journal, Revista Estudos Feministas, and has published
articles and book chapters in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on feminist
theory, life histories, ethnographic theory and practice, and cultural
criticism.
For more
information, please contact Women's Studies at 459-4324.
145.
Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S.
Instructor:
Gina Dent
TTh 2:00-3:45 pm
College Eight 240
Course Description:
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. Enrollment limited to 80. (General Education Code: E.) Mandatory section to be selected by student upon enrollment in course. Call #38198
194I.
Women's Oral History and Memoir
Instructor:
Bettina Aptheker
TTH 12:30-3:30 pm
Kresge 194
Course Description:
A WMST senior
seminar 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 22 senior Women's Studies majors.
(General Education Code: W.) Prerequisites: WMST 1A or 1B and WMST 100.
Call #38196
For more info, call 459-4324.