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Women’s Studies Courses
Fall 2007

Carroll

WMST 4980 Feminist Theory

What is feminist theory and what role does it play in Women's Studies as a discipline? This Women's Studies capstone course approaches feminism as a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches to the understanding of women's position in culture. Readings then will be as diverse as feminism itself and should give you a broad and deep understanding of the diversity of feminist thought and the historical and critical role feminist thought has played in a variety of disciplinary approaches to the study of women and culture. Readings will focus on intersections between race, class, sexual orientation, and gender in feminist thought and will include an investigation of paradigms such as the technology of gender, gender as performance, domestic ideology, gendered discourses in commodity culture (women and shopping), the environment as a feminist issue (ecofeminism), and the racing of feminism in English and American feminist theory. After a semester of reading a variety of feminist theories by authors such as Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) and Val Plumwood (Feminism and the Mastery of Nature), you should understand how such issues as essentialism, globalization, exclusivism, and classism have piqued feminist debates. In class you will become comfortable applying feminist paradigms to culture, allowing us to explore representations of current or historical events. Several short response papers to theoretical readings and one longer final project and presentation will be required, as well as a midterm and final exam.

 

 

T/TH 10-11:15
Lowder 4

Albrecht WMST 2100 Introduction to Women's Studies

T/TH 2-3:15
Haley Center
2124

De Vries and McDaniel

WMST 2100 Introduction to Women's Studies

T/TH 11-12:15
Haley Center 2116

Kerpelman HDFS 4300 Families and Social Policy

T/TH 2-3:15
Spidle 226

Roberson HDFS 2000-02 Marriage and Family in a Global Context MWF 8-8:50
Spidle 144
Roberson HDFS 3040 Human Sexuality over the Family Life Cycle MWF 9-9:50
Funchess 336
Roberson HDFS 4680 Family in a Cross-cultural Perspective T/TH 11-12:15
Spidle 220
Spencer FLFR 4410 Advanced Topics in French Literature, Culture, or Language MWF 10-10:50
Haley Center 3332
Summerfield FLIT 3510 La Donna e Mobile: The Passions of Italian Women

Mon 5-8
Haley Center 3166

Hale POLI 5970-06/6970-06 Intergovernmental Relations TUES 6:30-9
Haley Center 2212
Brown POLI 5970-01/6970-01 Race and Politics MWF 9-9:50
Haley Center 2454
Carroll ENGL 4740 Topics in Gender and Literature T/TH 12:30-1:45
Haley Center 3212
Sabino ENGL 4140 Language Variation T/TH 9:30-10:45
Haley Center 2213
Flynn FORY 5310/6310 Environmental Ethics

MWF 9-9:50
FORWI 1219

Burque SOCY 3500 Minority Groups

T/TH 11-12:15
Aero 155

Fry SOCY 1000-02 Sociology: Global Perspectives

MWF 1-1:50
Parker 236

Clifford SOCY 3300-01 Sociology of the Family T/TH 9:30-10:45
Shop1 111
Davis-Maye SOWO 3800 Human Behavior in the Social Environment I T/TH 12:30-1:45
Haley Center 2218
Davis-Maye SOWO 3850 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II

T/TH 2-3:15
Haley Center 2218

 

Myers SOWO 3910-01 Field Practicum Seminar WED 2-2:50
Haley Center 1414
Burque SOWO 3910-02 Field Practicum Seminar WED 10-10:50
Haley Center 2424