Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some WGST courses.

WGST 101   INTRODUCTION-STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introductory survey of issues in the study of women and gender, including
women's social, political, and legal status in the United States and around the
world; feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction;
and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory.
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WGST 201   INTRO TO LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No course description.
001 TBA                                 Huffer, Lynne             Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 215   WOMEN & GENDER IN MODERN ENGLAND         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
Also offered as HIST 260
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WGST 234   HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
A study of the special, economic and poetical history of American women from
pre-colonial times to the present.
Also offered as HIST 241
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WGST 311   SOCIETY & THE SEXES IN MODERN FRANCE     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of gender roles, gender ideology, and sexual practices in the
construction of French society and culture from the Enlightenment to World War
II.  Topics to be examined include: sexual politics and the emergent notion of
the "public Sphere" in the 18th century; masculine and feminine images of the
state during the Revolutionary period; feminist discourses and politics in
1789, 1848, and in the campaign for women's suffrage; family structure,
patriarchy, and notions of property.  Readings will include novels and memoirs
as well as historical works.  Taught in English: some readings may be done in
French.
Also offered as FREN 360
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WGST 325   SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Comparative analysis of role structure, sexuality, emotional bonds, gender, and
the family as a support network in differing forms of contemporary families.
The functioning of the family in differing cultures, classes, and lifestyles.
Also offered as SOCI 334
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WGST 326   SEXUALITY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ways societies conceive of and regulate sexuality in members' lives, sexual
value systems, forms of sexual conduct (especially the number, identities, and
objectives of participants and the intimacy and power relations among them),
the changing role of sexuality over the typical life span, forms and effects of
sexual communications, issues in the future of sexuality, and AIDS.
Also offered as SOCI 386
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 327   20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: SEX, GENDER  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
Also offered as ENGL 380
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WGST 331   PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER                     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Overview of research and theory on gender in psychology.  The myths and
stereotypes associated with women and men in society; the social, biological,
and psychological gender differences identified in research.
Also offered as PSYC 331
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WGST 332   SELF, SEX AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature,
and art together with a study of the lives of Greek and Roman women as
evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials.
Also offered as ANTH 325
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WGST 335   THE LIFECYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The human life cycle from conception to death.  Focus is on the interaction
between biological processes and culture.
Also offered as ANTH 388
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WGST 336   HISTORY OF CULTURAL MYTH                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned
phenomena.  Emphasizes history as statement of cultural values as well as
conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality.
Also offered as ANTH 308
001 TBA                                 Taylor, Julie M.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 342   WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature and
art together with study of the "real" lives of Greek and Roman women as
evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 358   WOMEN FILMMAKERS:                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Filmmaking is celebrating its first hundred years.  Women's contributions among
it were significant throughout and deserve a particular reviewing to help widen
the established film canon. To assess women directors of the 20th century and
their use of filmlanguage should provoke not only debates among feminists, but
among filmgoers of other genders and persuations.  The course will concentrate
on films by European and American women directors, taking into account
historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetic particularities, gender
commitment, subject orientations and post-feminist attempts.  Importance will
also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 367   AMERICAN ECONFEMINISM                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Comer, Krista             Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 405   VICTORIA STUDIES: JANE AUSTEN & CHARLOTT Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Also offered as Engl 441.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 406   CHRISTIAN DE PIZAN IN THE 15TH CENTURY   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
The Franco-Italian woman poet Christine de Pizan was translated into English
during the fifteenth century along with other poems dealing with the subject of
female experience and the female hero, such as Jean d'Arras's "melusene" and
Boccaccio's "Concerning Famous Women."  This seminar will examine these and
other English poems about women as early as Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women"
and as late as the "Assembly of Ladies," "Floure and the Leafe," "The Assembly
of Gods," and Thomas Hoccleve's "Letter of Cupid."
Also offered as ENGL 515
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WGST 407   INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY Credits 3.00  Spring 00
We will begin with an overview of themes and practices in feminist literary
theory and criticism from the 1970s to the present.  Then we will turn our
attention to recent work that engages the pressing concerns of feminst theory
in the 1990s, work that investigates the shape of gendered subordination and
strategies for feminist agency in the contexts both of cultural diversity and
of particular women's negotiation of race, class, sexuality, and national
identifications (among others).
Also offered as ENGL 481
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 413   MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
See description for Engl 517.
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WGST 417   WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of how slavery and its legacies affected relationships among women
and between women and men, what forces and issues brought southern women
together and what held them apart, and how race affected the construction of
gender.  Includes women's lives in the South from the mature slave system of
the 1830's through the civil rights movements of the 1960's.
Also offered as HIST 482
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 420   WOMEN & GENDER IN 19TH CENT EUROPE       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Introduction to current debates about women's history, the history of feminism,
and gender history in 19th century Europe.  Includes public and private rights,
republicanism and feminism, gender and difference, socialism, identity and
cultural modernism, and gender and social reform.  With permission of
instructor.
Also offered as HIST 349
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 426   WOMEN AND GENDER IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Exploration of the ways in which women have been represented in 11th-15th
centuries.  Comparative introduction and analysis of the different cultures of
Iberian Middle Ages and role of gender in literary genres.  Readings will
include Latin, Hispano-Arabic, and Hispano-Hebrew texts, as well as some
Provencal, Catalan, and Calician-Portuguese poetry (in translation).  The main
focus will be on literature written in Spanish.
Also offered as SPAN 426
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 02:20PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 430   STUDIES IN LITERARY CRITICISM: QUEER THE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
Also offered as ENGL 498
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 434   FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important
problems of contemporary feminist theories in French.  We will focus on the
interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by
exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory.  Readings (in French) will
include Beauvoir, Irigaray, Djebar, and Brossard.
Prereq- require reading knowledge of French, recommend one course in SWG,
Philosophy, or Literary Theory.
Also offered as FREN 434
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 12

WGST 439   WOMEN & GENDER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - F 02:20PM - 05:00PM           Brown, Judith Cora        Enr: 0 Max:

WGST 453   TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT BLACK WOM Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Black women writers:  1850-present.
Also offered as ENGL 470
001 TBA                                 Fultz, Lucille P.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 481   LITERARY THEORY: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An investigation of political and ethical concerns in literary interpretation.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
Also offered as ENGL 599
001 TBA                                 Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 496   APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY           Credits   Spring 00
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.  Such papers might
Prereq- permission of SWG Director required.
001 TBA                                 Sanders, Paula            Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 497   DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN A Credits   Spring 00
Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member.  Permission of
instructor required.  May count only once toward major requirements.
001 TBA                                 Sanders, Paula            Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 498   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Open to SWG majors only.
001 TBA                                 Sanders, Paula            Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 499   RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement.  Open to SWG
majors only.
001 TBA                                 Sanders, Paula            Enr: 0 Max: NA