Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2001
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)
Rice Course Schedule as of 05/08/2001.
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WGST 201 INTRO TO LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES Credits 3.00 Spring 01 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality generally, with a particular focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. The course will look specifically at how these identities interact with other human phenomena such as government, family, popular culture, scientific inquiry, and especially gender. In exploring sexual diversity, we will highlight the complexity and variability of sexualities both across different historical periods, and in relation to identities of race, class, ethnicity, and nation. 001 HUM 119 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Huffer, Lynne Enr: 15 Max: NA WGST 235 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: CIVIL WAR TO Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Continuation of WGST 234. This course traces the rise of women's voluntary associations of the antebellum period through the highly organized national and international organizations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to post-suffrage women's participation in movement for social change across the 20th century. Emphasis on the shifting boundary between private and public in America women's lives. 001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Sneider, Allison Enr: 3 Max: NA WGST 237 GENDER AND POLITICS IN THE WEST Credits 3.00 Spring 01 This lecture and discussion class explores relationships between ideas about sex difference and ideas about the political sphere through the study of key moments in the history of Western philosophy, literature, political theory and colonialism from Periclean Athens to the contemporary U.S. Offered with additional work as HIST 337 and WGST 437. Also offered as HIST 237 001 FL 517 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 331 PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Also offered as PSYC 331. 001 SH 301 - TBA Hebl, Mikki Enr: 5 Max: NA WGST 335 THE LIFECYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW Credits 3.00 Spring 01 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. 001 KH 101 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 362 WOMEN & VISUAL CULTURE IN ISLAMIC SOCIET Credits 3.00 Spring 01 This course places women at the center of explorations of visual culture in Islamic societies. In-depth analyses of selected works of art and architecture from various historical contexts highlight various issues, including women as patrons of art and women as objects of representation. Theoretical debates on women and gender in art history are introduced. Also offered as HART 328. Also offered as HART 328 001 SH 307 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Watenpaugh, Heghnar Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 367 AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM Credits 3.00 Spring 01 A consideration of the culture of feminist environmentalism. Interdisciplinary materials include literature, social movement theory, film, and environmental and social history. Also offered as ENGL 367. 001 FL 412 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Comer, Krista Enr: 2 Max: NA WGST 387 TRANSITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: MEXICAN & Credits 3.00 Spring 01 This course will juxtapose literature written by Mexican-Americans from 1848-1950 with literature written by Mexican national during the smae period of enormous changes. A vital feature of this course lies in the linkage of Mexican and Mexican-American notions of "familia" with race, gender, class, and violence. Also offered as ENGL 387. 001 FL 414 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Aranda, Jose F. Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 391 HISPANIC WOMEN WRITERS Credits 3.00 Spring 01 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Exploration of the ways in which women writers in the 8th through the 17th centuries have developed their literary works (prose, poetry, and drama). Emphasis on historical, religious, and political contexts. Readings will include Hispanic and Latin American authors: Sor Teresa de Cartagena, Sor Isabel de Villena (15th C.), Santa Teresa de Jesus, Beatriz Bernal (16th C.), Maria de Zayaz, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (17th C.), among others. Also offered as SPAN 391. 001 HUM 328 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Merida-Jimenez, Rafael Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 403 INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 01 This course (1) explores how women's bodies have been constructed by cultures committed to valuing and promoting beauty and (2) analyzes how feminism has variously engaged such an ongoing cultural commitment. We will analyze beauty cultures-the cosmetic industry, plastic surgery, and the recent return of the aesthetic as a salient interpretative mode in literary theory, for example-asking what impact these cultures have on feminist practice. Reading will include, among others: Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar, American Beauty, The Politices of Women;s Bodies:Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior, Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader, On Beauty and Being Just; and Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. Also offered as ENGL 481. 001 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Levander, Caroline Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 408 TOPICS IN LITERATURE: SEX & CLASS IN THE Credits 3.00 Spring 01 The eighteenth century witnessed an epochal shift in attitudes towards both social and sexual categorization. This course will examine this transformation as it is registered and worked out in the diverse literature of the period. Our aim will be twofold: 1) to track the emergence of the standard of "class" as it first begins to challenge and infiltrate a social order traditionally stratified in terms of rank and status, and 2) to examine the emergence of the notion of sexual "difference" as it first begins to challenge a sexual order stratified in terms of hierarchy. Our motivating questions will be to ask why, as status is de-essentialized, is sex naturalized for the first time? What are the political effects of these transformations? In what ways might the early modern reconception of social status agianst an economic *sex agianst a biological ground and vice versa? Are emergent sexual and socioeconomic ideologies intertwined? Our interest throughout will be to approach literary productions as instruments of cultural activity and to examine the kinds of cultural work that they perform. Texts will include poetic, dramatic, imaginative, and nonfiction works by such writers as Lord Rochester, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Delariviere Manley, Jochn Locke, Mary Astell, Judith Drake, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and others. Also offered as ENGL 397. 001 FL 517 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Ellenzweig, Sarah Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 452 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: CIVIL WAR TO Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Continuation of WGST 451. Enriched verison of WGST 235. Also offered as HIST 442. 001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Sneider, Allison Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 453 BLACK WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Content varies from year to year. Also offered as Engl 570. 001 FL 525 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 468 WOMEN AND THE WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLI Credits 3.00 Spring 01 In contemporary America, women and children typically have been the major recipients of the federal and state aid that come under the heading of welfare. It is less well known that women have also been some of the major architects of the social programs that together constitute the American welfare system. This seminar will focus on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare state and will investigate how it has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Also offered as HIST 468. 001 HB 22 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 484 VICTORIAN FICTION: THE MARRIAGE PLOT Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Topics vary from year to year. Different topics may be repeated for credit. Also offered as ENGL 542. 001 FL 525 - TTH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Michie, Helena Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 496 APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY Credits 1.00 Spring 01 Internships will be arranged individually, at the request of students and the details must approved by the Director. Students will also be required to submit a paper of between 8-15 pages (depending on the amount of credit) that demonstrates their ability to apply critically their knowledge of women's and gender studies. Prereq- permission of SWG Director required. 001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 0 Max: NA WGST 497 DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN A Credits 1.00 Spring 01 Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member. Permission of instructor required. May count only once toward major requirements. 001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 1 Max: NA WGST 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Open to SWG majors only. With permission of instructor. 001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 6 Max: NA WGST 499 RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDE Credits 3.00 Spring 01 Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG majors only. 001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 0 Max: NA
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