Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)

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WGST 220   GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON THE LAW         Credits 3.00  Spring 02
This course explores the ways in which law genders and is gendered. Using
academic texts, popular media, and legal cases, this course provides an
introduction to feminist legal theory, critical race feminism, and feminist
sociolegal studies. Looking at law from both local and global perspectives, we
critically engage what sociolegal scholars have called "the common place of
law" and its relation to larger structural forces.  While we focus on law in
the United States, we also examine gendered perspectives on the law in
international and transnational contexts.
001 RH 123 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Hamilton, Jennifer        Enr: 20 Max: 0

WGST 235   HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: CIVIL WAR TO  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
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. Offered with additional work as WGST 382. Also offered
as HIST 242 and with additional work as HIST 392.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 4 Max: 0

WGST 237   GENDER AND POLITICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
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 WGST 437.  Also offered as HIST 237 and with additional work
as HIST 392.
001 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 1 Max: 0

WGST 250   INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDE Credits 3.00  Spring 02
This course explores how international and domestic politics and economic
processes shape women's lives.  We will examine the implications of power
relations within the home, within nations, and between nations, for women's
lives in different parts of the world and at different points in history.  We
will look at similarities and differences in women's experiences across
different contexts with such global processes as the sexual division of labor,
colonialism, capitalism, domestic service, and slavery.  Throughout the course,
we will pay particular attention to how women, as individuals and in organized
groups, have sought to resist oppressive global processes.  We will use films,
literature, and scholarly works to explore the subject.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Shehabuddin, Rahnuma      Enr: 5 Max: 0

WGST 327   20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: SEX, GENDER  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Topics vary from year to year.  Different topics may be repeated for credit.
Also offered and Engl 380.
001 GRB 212W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM    Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 1 Max: 0

WGST 350   GENDER AND SYMBOLISM                     Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different
cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the
distribution of cultural models.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM     Taylor, Julie M.          Enr: 3 Max: NA

WGST 367   AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM: INTERSECTIONS BETW Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Environmental degradation disproportionately affects women, children, eht
nonwhite and the poor-this fact is basic to feminist environmentalism. But
beyond this, how might we make sense of an extremely varied, theorectically
embattled, and internally contentious contemporary political and cultural
movement-one which at the same time underwrites midnnight pagan rituals,
organized civil disobedience actions, and postcolonial assaults on hegemonic
western feminism itself? We begin investigating the evolution of contemporary
environmentalism and the problems of dominant environmental thought. We
consider those alongside American women's history, especially women's work for
peace. We then focus on the post-World War II struggles by women activists,
including writers, to end nuclear proliferation--ecofeminism as we understand
it today emerges from this immediate social context.
We also study
ecofeminism's roots in deep ecology, new age spirituality, women's studies
programs, and the Women in Development (WID) movement. In our final meetings,
we will take, as a case study in the "new environmentalism, " the recently
formed "Mobilization for Global Justice" coalition. A group originally founded
to protest globalization, the IMF and World Bank, after September 11, it now
devotes itself to thinking peace. Throughout the course, we take on what it
might mean to create alternative cultures of peace. Also offered as ENGL 367.
001 RH 204 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Comer, Krista             Enr: 2 Max: 0

WGST 382   HISTORY OF AMERICAL WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Enriched version of Wgst 235.  Students may not receive credit for both Wgst
235 and Wgst 382.  Also offered as Hist 392.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 387   TRANSITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: MEXICAN &  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
This course will juxtapose literature written by Mexican-Americans from
1848-1950 with literature written by Mexican national during the same 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 528 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 5 Max: 10

WGST 388   GENERATION X                             Credits 3.00  Spring 02
An interdisciplinary surevey of Generation X literature, music, film, and
politics. Also offered as ENGL 388.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Comer, Krista             Enr: 5 Max: 0

WGST 430   STUDIES IN LITERARY CRITICISM: QUEER THE Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Topics vary from year to year.  Different topics may be repeated for credit.
Also offered as Engl 499.
001 FL 528 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 2 Max: 0

WGST 432   ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA                      Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Seminar on history and politics of Islam and Muslims in the South Asian
subcontinent. Topics will include emergence of Indian Muslim society; Muslim
reponses to colonialism and the movement of Pakistan; and the role of of Islam
in politics in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Particular
emphasis on how elites as well as ordinary individuals, men as well as women,
have contributed to the history and politics of the region. Requires no prior
knowledge of Islam or South Asia. Also offered as Asia 432 and Hist 432.
Enrollment limited to 12.
001 RH 205 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM        Shehabuddin, Rahnuma      Enr: 0 Max: 4

WGST 437   GENDER & POLITICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
This lecture and discussion class explores relationships between ideas about
sex difference and the policital 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.  Also offered as Hist 337.
001 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 1 Max: 0

WGST 443   VICTORIAN STUDIES: REPRESENTING SEXUALIT Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Sexuality, broadly defined, was central to Victorian literature and visual
culture. This course will investigate representation of erotic experience, and
various ways of understadning, constraining, or evoking desire. Texts will
include the following: selections from Idylls of the King (Tennyson), Modern
Love (George Meredith), Aurora Leigh (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), poems by
Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, Man and Superman (George Bernard Shaw),
The Protrait of DOrian Grey (Oscar Wilde); readings in Darwin, sexology texts,
and conduct books, and in the memoirs of Ellen Terry. We will also look at
paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the nude in graphic and plastic art, and
female images in advertising. Different topics may be repeated for credit. Also
offered as ENGL 442.
001 FL 525 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Logan, Thad               Enr: 2 Max: 0

WGST 451   WOMEN, POLITICS, & POLITICAL HISTORY     Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Although women were not given the vote until the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment in 1920, women have a long history of involvement with politics,
partisanship, and parties.  Since the nation's founding women have petitioned
legislatures, lobbied government officials, campaigned for Democratic and
Republican candidates, formed women's auxiliaries to the regular parties, and
voted in municipal and school elections.  In the post-suffrage decades women
pioneered the single-issue, non-partisan approach to political reform and
challenged the centrality of parties to American political life even as they
rose to positions of prominence with those same parties.  This course
introduces students to a growing body of literature on women and politics that
is changing our understanding of American political life.  Also offered as Hist
551.
001 RH 205 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Sneider, Allison          Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 456   SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE VARIATION: GENDER AN Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Topics in language variation. The topic for Spring 2002 is "Gender and Gender
Roles." We will look specifically at the types of gender variations cross
linguistically, explanations for their presence, and their effect on language
change. Also offered as LING 556. Enrollment is limited to 15.
Prereq- Permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Niedzielski, Nancy        Enr: 0 Max: 10

WGST 460   FEMINIST SOCIAL THOUGHT                  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of feminist theory as critique and reconstruction.  Includes
Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir, as well as contemporary debates about equity,
difference, knowledge, sexuality, and power.  Also offered as Soci 395.
001 HB 227 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Long, Elizabeth           Enr: 3 Max: 0

WGST 480   FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY: FEMINIST FILM  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Also offered as Engl 382.
001 SH 303 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Lurie, Susan              Enr: 6 Max: 0

WGST 496   APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY           Credits 1.00  Spring 02
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.  With permission of SWG director.
Prereq- permission of SWG Director required.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 497   DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN A Credits 1.00  Spring 02
Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member.  Permission of
instructor required.  May count only once toward major requirements.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 3 Max: 0

WGST 498   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Open to SWG majors only.  With permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 2 Max: 0

WGST 499   RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDE Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG
majors only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 1 Max: 0