FEMINIST STUDIES COURSES
2009-2010

***Note: Offerings with significant LGBT content
are marked with an asterisk and lavender text.***

AUTUMN QUARTER, 09-10

FEMINIST STUDIES COURSES:

FEMST 101. Introduction to Feminist Studies — What is feminism and why does it matter today? Debates over the status and meaning of feminism in the 21st century. Feminist theories and practices across topics that intersect with gender inequality such as race, health, socioeconomics, sexual orientation, international perspectives, new media, civil rights, and political change. Perspectives from philosophy, education, visual culture, literary and ethnic studies, performance and expressive arts, and social sciences. GER:EC-Gender, DB-SocSci. 5 units, Aut (Coll, K)

FEMST 104B. Senior Seminar and Practicum — For Feminist Studies majors only. Students present oral reports on the relation of the practicum to their academic work, submit a draft and revised written analysis of the practicum, and discuss applications of feminist scholarship. may be repeated once for credit. 2 units, Aut (Staff)

FEMST 105. Honors Work — 1-15 units, Aut (Staff)

FEMST 108. Internship in Feminist Studies —For non-majors. Supervised field, community, or lab experience in law offices, medical research and labs, social service agencies, legislative and other public offices, or local and national organizations that address issues related to gender and/or sexuality. One unit represents approximately three hours work per week. Required paper. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: course in Feminist Studies, consent of program office, written consent of faculty sponsor, application. 1-15 units, Aut (Staff)

FEMST 138. Violence Against Women: Theory, Issues, and Prevention — Interdisciplinary feminist perspective. Causes of abuse, approaches to ending violence against women, and its relationship to other forms of oppression such as racism, economic exploitation, heterosexism, and social class. Institutional barriers maintaining this violence; individual, community, political, legal, national, and global dimensions of possible solutions. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 2-4 units, Aut (Baran, N)

*FEMST 153/253. Women and the Creative Imagination — Interdisciplinary. The lives of women artists in different cultures and generations. Students write about art forms, the role of artists in the academy, and their social responsibilities. Similarities and differences among artists. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender. WIM. 4-5 units, Aut (Miner, V)

FEMST 191Q. Writing Women's Lives — Creative writing through dialogue focusing on prose about the lives of women in different cultures and generations. Novels, short stories, and micro-narrative including fiction and memoir. Students produce work using research, memory, imagination, and metaphor. 2 units, Aut (Miner, V)

FEMST 195. Directed Reading. May be repeated for credit. 1-15 units, Aut (Staff)

COGNATE COURSES:

ARTHIST 176/376. Feminism & Contemporary Art — The impact of second wave feminism on art making and art historical practice in the 70s, and its reiteration and transformation in contemporary feminist work. Topics: sexism and art history, feminist studio programs in the 70s, essentialism and self-representation, themes of domesticity, the body in feminist art making, Bad Girls, the exclusion of women of color and lesbians from the art historical mainstream, notions of performativity. GER: DB-Hum. 4 units, Aut (Horn, M)

*BIO 185/285. Evolution of Social Reproductive Behavior — Seminar. Controversies surrounding theory and data for the evolution of sex, gender, and sexuality. Issues include the critique of Darwin's theory of sexual selection, and the accuracy of the metaphor of universal selfishness and sexual conflict in biological nature. Readings include Evolution's Rainbow and The Genial Gene, and primary literature. GER:DB-NatSci, EC-Gen. WIM. 3 units, Aut (Roughgarden, J)

*CLASSGEN 113. Christianity & Homoeroticism in the Roman Empire — Often seen as the first Christian ban on homosexuality, Emperor Justinian's 533 C.E. legislation outlawing male sexual practices deemed contrary to nature exerted dogmatic influence on the church. Prior to the law, members of the early church held widely differing attitudes towards what is now called homosexuality, which reflected not just the precepts of the scripture, but pagan conceptions of sexuality and the multiethnic and syncretistic religious makeup of the Roman empire alike. Goal is to understand these conceptions, assess Justinian's ban in their context, and explore their appeal in a contemporary discourse that pits Christian religion and homosexuality against one another. GER:EC-Gen. 4-5 units, Aut (Kaesser, C)

*COMPLIT 133. Salome, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Transgression — The Salome theme in Europe and the U.S.: from the 1880s to the present, in literature, opera, dance, and film. Topics include representations of sexual and aesthetic excess, ecstasy, and transgression in the context of modernity. Historically associated with metaphysical crisis, evil femininity, and discourses of perversity, the popularity of the Salome theme invites comparative treatments in fin de siècle and modernist studies, feminist studies, as well as queer theory. All readings in English. 3-5 units, Aut (Dierkes-Thrun, P)

CSRE 133. Women and Race in the American West, 1849-1950 — The western myth of the lone white cowboy gives little insight into women and people of color. Race and gender are crucial to the U.S. West's history, creating complex identities and social structures. Course examines lives of women of diverse races, along with mythology surrounding such figures as Sacagawea. Using novels, memoir, artwork, and film, students analyze interesting race and gender identities, and the relation between history and myth. 5 units, Aut (Frink, B)

CSRE 183. Border Crossings and American Identities - 5 units, Spr

DRAMA 150T/302. Racial Erotics — Issues in postcolonial studies; the shifting erotics of race and nation; and the management of sexuality within geopolitical contexts in colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. The historicity of these categories; how race, gender, and nation continue to shape the world. 3-5 units, Aut (Menon, J)

*DRAMA 189Q. Mapping and Wrapping the Body — Preference to sophomores. The concepts behind gender boundaries and clothing systems. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender. 3 units, Aut (Eddelman, W)

*ENGLISH 126D. Victorian Sex — Was there a preoccupation with or repression of sexuality in Victorian England? Depictions of sex in Victorian literary and cultural texts, including poems, novels, essays and diaries. How did the Victorians imagine sex beyond marriage, homosexual sex, and fetishes? What is the relationship between the sexual sphere and the public sphere? Authors include Collins, Dickens, Cullwick, Munby, Besant, Walter, Swinburne, and Casement, augmented by theoretical and critical readings. GER:DB-Hum. 5 units, Aut (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 134. The Marriage Plot — The centrality of the marriage plot in the development of the British novel beginning in the 18th century with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and ending with Woolf's modernist novel Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between novelistic plotting and the development of female characters into marriageable women. What is the relationship between the novel and feminine subjectivity? What aspects of marriage make it work as a plotting device? What kinds of marriages do marriage plots allow? Is the development of women's political agency related to their prominence in the novel form? GER:DB-Hum. 5 units, Aut (Jarvis, C)

ENGLISH 187H. Lady Sings the Blues: Blues, Literature, and Black Feminism —Examination of a long tradition of feminist articulations in black women's blues expressed in sound and literature over the course of the twentieth century. Familiarity with the recurrent tropes of black women's blues and how these coalesce in a feminism based on the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality by bringing together black women writers, thinkers, and songstresses such as Gayl Jones, Bessie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday. Supplemental readings from cultural theorists such as Angela Davis, Hazel Carby, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and others in order to build a critical framework for interpreting, historicizing, and theorizing black women's blues. 5 units, Aut (Heard, D)

*FILMSTUD 136. Gender and Sexuality in East Asian Cinema (FILMSTUD 336) — Representations of gender and sexuality in the cinemas of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, covering key periods and genres such as the golden age of Shanghai film, Hong Kong action pictures, opera films, post-socialist art films, and new queer cinema. Historical and contemporary perspectives on cinematic constructions of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality as they relate to issues of nationalism, modernity, globalization, and feminist and queer politics. Weekly screening required. GER:EC-Gen. 4 units, Aut (Ma, J)

FRENGEN 289. French and Italian Women Writers (ITALGEN 289) — How does women's writing evolve from the very early twentieth-century, when women's liberation movements first began, and World War One brought major social changes, all the way to the big flowering of "feminine writing" in the 1970s and beyond? What is the relationship \n\nbetween women writers, women filmmakers, and feminism? Is it legitimate to consider women writers in a separate category? To what extent does a reevaluation of women writers mean reconsidering modern literary history? Authors/filmmakers include Aleramo, Yourcenar, de \n\nBeauvoir, Banti, Duras, Cavani. 3-5 units, Aut (Wittman, L)

HISTORY 134A. The European Witch Hunts — (Same as HISTORY 34A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state-building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and procedures in the process. What was it about early modernity that fueled witch hunting? Examines witch trials and early modern demonology as well as historians' interpretations of events to seek answers to this question. GER:DB-Hum. 5 units, Aut (Stoke, L)

HISTORY 295J. Chinese Women's History — The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disciplines and constraints such as medical, reproductive, and cosmetic technologies? How relevant is the experience of Western women to women elsewhere? By what standards should liberation be defined? GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender. 5 units, Aut (Sommer, M)

HUMBIO 129. Critical Issues in International Women's Health — Women's lives, from childhood through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. Economic, social, and human rights factors, and the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Emphasis is on life or death issues of women's health that depend on their capacity to negotiate or feel empowered, including maternal mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and sex trafficking. Organizations addressing these issues. Prerequisites: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor. GER:EC-Gender. 4 units, Aut (Firth-Murray, A)

INDE 245. Women and Health Care — Lecture and seminar series. Topics of interest to women as health care consumers and providers. The historical role of women in health care; current and future changes. 1-2 units, Aut (Grudzen, M.; LeBaron, S.; Massion, C.)

*ILAC 280. Latina/o Literature — Examination of a diverse set of literary texts by Latinas/os, bringing history, politics, and cultural theory to bear in order to apprehend the significant intracultural differences amongst Latinas/os (most notably concerning im/migration). Gender and sexuality as critical lenses that reflect and refract themes such as identity, language politics, transnationalism, political turmoil, socioeconomic status, and the notion of home/land and its loss, reinvention, and/or reclamation. 3-5 units, Aut (Yarbro-Bejarano, Y)

*ILAC 380E. Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature — Interrogation of the critical discourses that have configured and reconfigured the canon of Chicana/o literature over the last thirty years. Close textual readings of primary texts, mainly narrative, within the development of Chicana/o literary and cultural criticism. Construction of narrative genealogies and foundational texts. Impact of the publication of late-nineteenth or pre-movement novels and Chicana feminist/lesbian/queer critiques. Consideration of alternative paradigms such as positioning Chicana/o literature within a U.S. Latina/o literary imaginary, and the shift of critical discourse in the field of visual art from a paradigm of resistance and affirmation to one of "post" Chicano. 3-5 units, Aut (Yarbro-Bejarano, Y)

RELIGST 156. Goddesses and Gender in Hinduism —India's tradition of worshiping female forms of the divine, including Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Radha, Sita, and local deities. The stories, histories, iconographies, theologies, arts, and practices associated with these goddesses. How the worship of goddesses impacts the lives of women. Readings include Is the Goddess a Feminist? GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender. 4 units, Aut (Hess, L)

*SOC 155/255. The Changing American Family — Family change from historical, social, demographic, and legal perspectives. Extramarital cohabitation, divorce, later marriage, interracial marriage, and same-sex cohabitation. The emergence of same-sex marriage as a political issue. Are recent changes in the American family really as dramatic as they seem? Theories about what causes family systems to change. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul. 5 units, Aut (Rosenfeld, M)

OTHER COURSES OF INTEREST:

AFRICAAM 54N: African American Women's Lives — (HISTORY 54N) Preference to freshmen. The everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America in comparative context of histories of European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Primary sources including personal journals, memoirs, music, literature, and film, and historical texts. Topics include slavery and emancipation, labor and leisure, consumer culture, social activism, changing gender roles, and the politics of sexuality. GER:DB-Hum. 4-5 units, Aut (Hobbs, A)

CLASSGEN 6N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent — (DRAMA 12N) Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender. 3-5 units, Aut (Rehm, M)

EDUC 11SC: Work and Family —Examination into the forces behind the rise in women's paid work and subsequent changes in the workplace and in families. Topics include gendered division of labor, decisions about marriage and childrearing, economic issues, employers' role in structuring work and family, and public policy issues such as anti-discrimination laws, divorce laws, and subsidized child care. 2 units, Aut (Strober, M)

ENGLISH 65N: Contemporary Women Fiction Writers —Preference to freshmen. Novels and story collections by women writers whose work explores: domestic and global politics; love, sexuality, and orientation; and spirituality and its meanings. Readings includes Dandicant, Eisenberg, Munro, Morrison, O'Brien, and Erdrich. GER:DB-Hum. 3 units, Aut (Tallent, E)

HISTORY 44S: Sex and Power in South African History —At key moments in South African history, sexual behavior has captured national attention. Examines state attempts to regulate sex while asking the following questions: How can we think historically about something as seemingly private as sex? What drives public institutions to regulate sexual behavior? What is the relationship between sexuality and race, gender, and class? And what struggles over sexuality tell us about the rest of South African history? 5 units, Aut (Thornberry, E)

PWR 1PH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: He Said, She Said: The Rhetoric of Gender Politics — In The Little Mermaid Ursula advises Ariel to use her body to seduce the prince since, she says, men don't really want to hear what women have to say. In "A Girl Worth Fighting For," a soldier in Disney's Mulan sings, "Nah. My manly ways and turn of phrase are sure to thrill her" when asked if he wants a girl who has a brain and speaks her mind. A Skechers ad presents a scantily dressed Christina Aguilera as both "naughty and nice" doppelgangers posed in fetishistic scenes. The Axe campaign informs men that with the right scent, they can change nice girls to naughty ones. Apparently men are supposed to want voiceless, sexy, and naughty women, and women are willing to comply.<br><br>\n\n\nIn this course, we will analyze the ways in which news articles, movie clips, magazine advertisements, television commercials and other texts present gender roles. How are the roles and bodies of both sexes presented as objects open to scrutiny, critique, exploitation, abuse, and awe? We'll read excerpts from social critics such as Susan Bordo who analyze culture and its presentation of male and female bodies; additionally, we'll read texts such as "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" and "The Making of a Man" to explore social expectations of gender roles. Such readings will provide sample discussions of the power of social discourses on individuals and choices. Students will examine and research how lessons learned from popular culture impact the treatment and expectations of women and men individually as well as in relationship with each other. Satisfies WR-1. 4 units, Aut (Hanlon-Baker, P)

PWR 2DC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Popular Science of Sex — This class explores the busy intersection between social debate and scientific research about sex and gender. Our language is littered by the collisions that take place at this intersection: we describe presidents and CEOs as "alpha males," a term that comes from animal behavior studies; we debate the existence of "gay genes"; and we talk about love as an "evolutionary trick" designed to ensure reproduction. The rhetorical traffic goes the other way, too: recent psychological theories about female sexuality have sometimes seemed to be lifted straight out of Harlequin romance novels. In this course we'll see how social debates draw on, represent, respond to, and influence scientific studies, and how the process shapes our knowledge and beliefs about sex and gender. This focus will lead us to look at two kinds of materials. First, we'll consider attempts by scientists to shape public conversations about sex and gender, such as an online debate between psychologists Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke or attempts by so-called "feminist scientists" to change public understandings of the relationship between those two terms. At the same time, we'll consider attempts by cultural texts to shape these same conversations, including films like Enduring Love, Choke, and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, and fiction like David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies." Our goal will be to understand how arguments navigate different venues and media as they attempt to influence the direction in which our public conversations go. Satisfies WR-1. 4 units, Aut (Carluccio, D)

GRADUATE COURSES:

ANTHRO 374: Archaeology of Colonialism/Postcolonialisms — Advanced graduate seminar focused on the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial contexts, both prehistoric and historic. Emphasis on intersections between archaeological research and and subaltern, postcolonial, and transnational feminist/queer theory. 5 units, Aut (Voss, B)

WINTER QUARTER, 09-10

FEMINIST STUDIES COURSES:

FEMST 103: Feminist Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMST 203, PHIL 153, PHIL 253) - The interdisciplinary foundations of feminist thought. The nature of disciplines and of interdisciplinary work. Challenges of feminism for scholarship and research. 4-5 units, Win (Longino)

FEMST 104A: Junior Seminar and Practicum - Preference to and required of Feminist Studies majors; others require consent of instuctor. Feminist experiential learning projects related to critical studies in gender and sexuality. Identifying goals, grant proposal writing, and negotiating ethical issues in feminist praxis. Developing the relationship between potential projects and their academic focus in the major. 1 unit, Win (Coll, K.)

FEMST 105: Honors Work - 1-15 units, Win (staff)

FEMST 108: Internship in Feminist Studies - For non-majors. Supervised field, community, or lab experience in law offices, medical research and labs, social service agencies, legislative and other public offices, or local and national organizations that address issues related to gender and/or sexuality. One unit represents approximately three hours work per week. Required paper. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: course in Feminist Studies, consent of program office, written consent of faculty sponsor, application. 1-15 units, Win (staff)

FEMST 140A: Destroying Dichotomies: Exploring Multiple Sex, Gender & Sexual Identities - Examination of sex, gender, sexual identities & expressions through studying the LGBTQQI community using a sociological lens. Readings in feminist and queer theory, films, class presentations, and discussion. Thematic focus in valuing the diversity of human experience. Students will develop their skills in critical reading, writing and thinking about gender and sexuality. 5 units, Win (Fogarty, A.)

FEMST 188N: Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person - Gender roles, gender relations and sexual identity explored in contemporary literature and conversation with guest authors. Poetry and narrative examining relationships between race and gender set in 19th-21st centuries in The Phillippines, Jamaica, Japan, China and various parts of the U.S. Expository writing and oral skills are emphasized. Writing experience not necessary. 4-5 units, Win (Miner, V.)

FEMST 195: Directed Reading - 1-15 units, Win (Staff)

COGNATE COURSES:

AFRICAAM 144: African Women Writers - The intricacy and diversity of contemporary African women's writings. Focusis on fiction from various regions of Africa. Authors include Dangarembga, Ba, Okunit, Vera, Head, Aidoo, and El Saadawi. Theoretical readings locate the writings within historical, philosophical, and aesthetic traditions. 5 units, Win (Powell, P.)

AFRICAAM 145A: Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature (CSRE 145A) - Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization.
5 units, Win (Duffey, C.)

ANTHRO 151: Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 251)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places. Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Brown, M.

CASA 186: Kinship and Gender in South Asia (CASA 286)
How gender roles affect social and cultural practices such as marriage, dowry, motherhood, and widowhood. Child marriage, sati, and the honor killings during Partition. The intersection of caste and kinship in India and Nepal; poverty and child survival on the streets of Bombay and in Calcutta brothels. How transnational labor and globalization are influencing contemporary notions of courtship, kinship, marriage, divorce, and masculinity in India and Sri Lanka. Cultural, religious, and economic diversity in the region. Sources include ethnography, history, social theory, literature, and documentary and feature films. Terms: Win | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)

CHICANST 160N: Salt of the Earth: Docudrama in (Latino) America (CSRE 160N) - An introduction to "Docudrama" as a form of factually based, politically-motivated, dramatic writing (film and theater), related to the Chican@/Latina@ experience. The 1954 Black listed film, "Salt of the Earth," will serve as the point of departure for examining the more than half-century of Latina@-oriented Docudrama that followed. Students will create a short original docudrama at the quarter's end. Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter
Instructors: Moraga, C.

CHINGEN 193E: Female Divinities in China
This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses-the Queen Mother of the West, Guanyin, Chen Jinggu, and others--in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present day. The course will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them such a major, even dominant place, in the religious sphere. It is based entirely on readings in the English-language secondary literature.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Lewis, M.

COMPLIT 144: Gender and Modernism
Gender and sexuality in trans-Atlantic culture from the 1880s-1930s. The 19th-century culture wars and the figures of the dandy and the new woman. Sexuality and the modernist critique of Enlightenment rationality. The impact of WW I on gender roles. The rise of modern consumer culture, fashion, and design. The modernist metropolis and gender/sexuality. The avant garde and gender. Literary first-wave feminism. Radclyffe Hall's obscenity trial. Homoerotic modernism. Attention to contemporary intellectual history and recent theorists of gender and sexuality including Foucault, Felski, Jardine, and Sedgwick. Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Dierkes-Thrun, P.

CSRE 177: Writing for Performance: The Fundamentals (DRAMA 177, DRAMA 277)
Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Shanley, August Wilson, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter¿s end.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter
Instructors: Moraga, C.

EDUC 201: History of Education in the United States (HISTORY 158B)
How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since WW II. The role of gender and race, the development of the high school and university, and school organization, curriculum, and teaching. (SSPEP)
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Gordon, L.

FRENGEN 242: Women Mystics from the Middle Ages to the Present (ITALGEN 242)
This course explores the predominantly female mystical experience or direct embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Through a variety of European texts from the Middle Ages to the present, by women and men, we will explore attempts to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and finally, to transmit it actively to others.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Wittman, L.

HISTORY 201G: Sexual Encounters: The Middle East and Europe (HISTORY 301G)
The Middle East and Europe have been engaged for millennia. Examines this relationship from the middle ages to the present through romance, desire, sex, love, sexuality, and gender. Topics include: travel, homosexuality, marriage, family, violence, prostitution, and policing.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Mikhail, A.; Sheffer, E.

HISTORY 208: Private Lives, Public Stories: Autobiography in Women's History
Changing contexts of women's lives and how women's actions have shaped and responded to those contexts.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Lougee Chappell, C.

HISTORY 221A: Men, Women, and Power in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1800
Social values, gender relations, and social change in an era of rapid change; challenges to established norms by new constructions of deviance (witchcraft, religious reform, and revolt) and new standards of civility; encounters with non-Russians and the construction of national consciousness. Social values as political ethos: patrimonial autocracy and the reality of female rule in the late 17th and 18th century.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Kollmann, N.

HISTORY 227: East European Women and War in the 20th Century (HISTORY 327)
Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: the Balkan Wars, WW I, WW II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. The way women in E. Europe have been involved in and affected by these wars compared to women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Women's involvement in war as members of the military services, the backbone of underground movements, workers in war industries, mothers of soldiers, subjects and supporters of war aims and propaganda, activists in peace movements, and objects of wartime destruction, dislocation, and sexual violation.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Jolluck, K.

HUMBIO 143: Adolescent Sexuality
Developmental perspective. Issues related to scientific, historical, and cultural perceptions; social influences on sexual development; sexual risk; and the limitations and future directions of research. Sexual identity and behavior, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, pregnancy, abortion, gay and lesbian youth, sex education and condom availability in schools, mass media, exploitative sexual activity, and difficulties and limitations in studying adolescent sexuality. Legal and policy issues, gender differences, and international and historical trends. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Medoff, L.

LINGUIST 156: Language and Gender
The role of language in the construction of gender, the maintenance of the gender order, and social change. Field projects explore hypotheses about the interaction of language and gender. No knowledge of linguistics required.
Terms: Win | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit

MED 108Q: Human Rights and Health
History of human-rights law. International conventions and treaties on human rights as background for social and political changes that could improve the health of groups and individuals. Topics such as: regional conflict and health, the health status of refugees and internally displaced persons; child labor; trafficking in women and children; HIV/AIDS; torture; poverty, the environment and health; access to clean water; domestic violence and sexual assault; and international availability of drugs. Possible optional opportunities to observe at community sites where human rights and health are issues. Guest speakers from national and international NGOs including Doctors Without Borders; McMaster University Institute for Peace Studies; UC Berkeley Human Rights Center; Kiva. PowerPoint presentation on topic of choice required. less «
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Laws, A.

POLISCI 141: The Global Politics of Human Rights
The global development and changing nature of human rights and the rise of an international human rights movement. Conflicts between national sovereignty and rights, and among types of rights. Case studies include genocide in Rwanda, holding torturers accountable in Chile and El Salvador, factory workers versus Nike, and the rights of women in S. Africa.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Karl, T.

SOC 142: Sociology of Gender (SOC 242)
(Graduate students register for 242.) Gender inequality in contemporary American society and how it is maintained. The social and relative nature of knowledge and the problems this poses for understanding sex differences and gendered behavior in society. Analytical levels of explanation for gender inequalities: socialization, interaction processes, and socioeconomic processes; arguments and evidence for each approach. The social consequences of gender inequality such as the feminization of poverty, and problems of interpersonal relations.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Correll, S.

SOC 323: Sociology of the Family
Sociological research on changing family forms. Topics include courtship, marriage, fertility, divorce, conflict, relationship skills and satisfaction, gender patterns, power relations within the family, and class and race differences in patterns.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: England, P.

OTHER COURSES OF INTEREST

AMELANG 32: Arab Women Writers and Issues
(Formerly AMELANG 162.) Fiction and non-fiction work. The major cultural factors shaping their feminist attitudes. Readings: Fatima Mernissi, Nawal El-Saadawi, Etel Adnan, Fadia Faqir, Alifa Rifaat, and Sahar Khalifeh. No knowledge of Arabic required; extra unit for readings in Arabic. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Barhoum, K.

ANTHRO 15: Sex and Gender
Commonality and diversity of gender roles in crosscultural perspective. Cultural, ecological, and evolutionary explanations for such diversity. Theory of the evolution of sex and gender, changing views about men's and women's roles in human evolution, conditions under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies, and issues surrounding gender equality, power, and politics.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Bird, R.

HUMBIO 87Q: Women and Aging (MED 87Q)
Preference to sophomores. Biology, clinical issues, social and health policies of aging; relationships, lifestyles, and sexuality; wise women and grandmothers. Sources include scientific articles, essays, poetry, art, and film. Service-learning experience with older women.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Winograd, C.

IHUM 7A: Rebellious Daughters and Filial Sons of the Chinese Family: Present and Past
First in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The authority of the father, care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:IHUM-2 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Wang, B.

GRAD COURSES

ANTHRO 380: Practice and Performance: Bourdieu, Butler, Giddens, de Certeau
Poststructuralist theories of iteration and mimesis used by social scientists to negotiate the tension between social structure and social practice: Gidden's structuration theory; Bourdieu's practice theory; Butler's theories of gender performativity; and de Certeau's analysis of tactics and strategies. Ethnographic and archaeological case studies that employ methodologies inspired by these approaches. Intersections and contradictions between these theorists' work; their use in anthropological practice. Issues of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Voss, B.

DRAMA 300B: Critical Styles II
Notions of performance as they relate to gender, race, and globalization in critics such as Derrida, Butler, and Phelan. How style reveals context. Students write in the style of authors discussed.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Rayner, A.

SPRING QUARTER, 09-10

FEMINIST STUDIES COURSES:

FEMST 105. Honors Work — 1-15 units, Aut (Staff)

FEMST 108: Internship in Feminist Studies
For non-majors. Supervised field, community, or lab experience in law offices, medical research and labs, social service agencies, legislative and other public offices, or local and national organizations that address issues related to gender and/or sexuality. One unit represents approximately three hours work per week. Required paper. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: course in Feminist Studies, consent of program office, written consent of faculty sponsor, application.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-15 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Murray, A.

FEMST 120: Introduction to Queer Studies
Major readings in queer theory in literature, art and science. Readings include: Sedgwick, Butler, Roughgarden, Freedman, and Foucault. Cultural texts ranging from Mapplethorpe's photographs to "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" will be included.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Phelan, M.

FEMST 140B: Making of the Modern Woman: Robots, Aliens & the Feminine in Science Fiction
Feminist analysis of gender in popular science fiction literature and visual media from 19th through 21st centuries. Texts range from Shelley's Frankenstein to Jos Whedon's Dollhouse. How are women represented by themselves and others? Who are women? What is gender and how is it constructed and performed? What is the relationship between man and machine? Between women and machine? How is gender represented through narratives of literal alien otherness?
Terms: Win | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)

FEMST 195. Directed Reading. May be repeated for credit. 1-15 units, Aut (Staff)

FEMST 260: Seminar in Women's Health: Women and Disabilities (FEMST 360) Explores visible and invisible disabilities, women's psychological as well as physical health, issues of access, caretaking, self-definition and the diversity of disabled women's identities. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Krieger, S.

COGNATE COURSES

AFRICAAM 255: Racial Identity in the American Imagination (HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D) Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | GERs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul | Grading: Letter
Instructors: Hobbs, A.

AMSTUD 156H: History of Women and Medicine in the United States
Women's bodies in sickness and health, and encounters with lay and professional healers from the 18th century to the present. Historical contstruction of thought about women's bodies and physical limitations; sexuality; birth control and abortion; childbirth; adulthood; and menopause and aging. Women as healers, including midwives, lay physicians, the medical profession, and nursing.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Horn, M.

CHICANST 197: The Rite to Remember: Performance and Chicana Indigenous Thought (CSRE 197, DRAMA 355M, NATIVEAM 197)
Indigenous thought and aesthetics as they pertain to the performance and ceremonial practices of Chicana and other indigenous African American women artists and spirit practitioners.
Terms: Spr | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit

ECON 144: Family Economics
Topics at the intersection of economics and demography. Causes and consequences of historical trends such as the demographic transition, the increase in female labor force participation and its macroeconomic implications, the connection between economic development and family laws (child labor laws, women's rights), and policies affecting families and children (such as parental leave policies, social security policy, education subsidies). Economic models of household bargaining, fertility choice, and intergenerational transfers. Prerequisites: 51.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Tertilt, M.

ECON 216: Development Economics III
Use of quantitative theory to understand various aspects of the growth and development process. Emphasis on family and demographic issues and their importance for development. Theoretical models of fertility and marriage decisions, and their empirical relevance. Unified growth theories: demographic transition and industrial revolution. Family institutions such as marriage payments and polygamy. The political economy of family-related institutions, e.g. the evolution of women's and children's rights. Female labor supply and development. Theories of disease and development. Prerequisite: 202, 203, 204, 210, 211, 212, 270, 271, 272.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Tertilt, M.

EDUC 113X: Gender and Sexuality in Schools
Issues at the intersection of queer theory and educational practice. Experiences, rights, and responsibilities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning students and teachers as members of marginalized or majority cultures.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Haertel, E.

EDUC 197: Education, Gender, and Development (SOC 134)
Theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to the role of education in changing, modifying, or reproducing structures of gender differentiation and hierarchy. Cross-national research on the status of girls and women and the role of development organizations and processes. (SSPEP)
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Wotipka, C.

EDUC 201: History of Education in the United States (HISTORY 158B)
How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since WW II. The role of gender and race, the development of the high school and university, and school organization, curriculum, and teaching. (SSPEP)
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Gordon, L.

ENGLISH 115A: Shakespeare and Modern Critical Developments
Approaches include gender studies and feminism, race studies, Shakespeare's geographies in relation to the field of cultural geography, and the importance of religion in the period.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Parker, P.

ENGLISH 139B: American Women Writers, 1850-1920
How female writers negotiated a series of literary, social, and intellectual movements, from abolitionism and sentimentalism in the nineteenth century to Progressivism and avant-garde modernism in the twentieth. Authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Sui Sin Far, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Richardson, J.

ENGLISH 144E: The Novels of Virginia Woolf
Focus on six Woolf major novels: The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Topics include Woolf's family history, the evolution of her pioneering literary style, her views on sexuality, women, literature, and society, and her complex personal and intellectual relationships with other writers and artists.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Castle, T.

ENGLISH 145: Another Way to be: Writings by Women of Color (ENGLISH 45)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145.) Themes include family relations, identity formation, racism and colorism, gender and sexuality, spirituality, and globalization. Rhetorical and aesthetic strategies and the associated development of a method of cultural analysis. Authors may include the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sandra Cisneros, among others.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Moya, P.

ENGLISH 241: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
Focus is on novelists, but also poets, critics, and playwrights. Authors include relatively well-known writers such as Behn and Wollstonecraft, and lesser-known authors such as Sarah Scott, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Anna Seward. Recent feminist scholarship on eighteenth-century women's writing, generic issues, and the question of a women's literary tradition, the material conditions of female authorship in the period, and the history of the eighteenth-century literary marketplace.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Castle, T.

FILMSTUD 250A: Politics of Representation
Counterpoising viewpoints on media visibility drawn from identity politics and post-structuralist theory, course explores the questions entangled in negotiating a politics of representation: Can images show how things really are? Who is seen and who isn't? Can interpretation go beyond stereotypes? How are we situated as media content and consumers? Focusing primarily on gender, race, sexuality, and their intersections, course analyzes specific invocations of these categories in film, television, and cyberculture. Texts presenting opposing perspectives by theorists, critics, and activists to scaffold each example. Ultimate objective to explore how different media forms open or close possibilities for progressive representation, reception, and political change. less «
Terms: Spr | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit

HISTORY 221B: The Woman Question in Modern Russia
Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of rights to women as a basic principle of social progress. The social status and cultural representations of Russian women from the mid-19th century to the present. The arguments and actions of those who fought for women's emancipation in the 19th century, theories and policies of the Bolsheviks, and the reality of women's lives under them. How the status of women today reflects on the measure of freedom in post-Communist Russia.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Jolluck, K.

HUMBIO 125: Current Controversies in Women's Health (OBGYN 256)
Interdisciplinary. Focus is on the U.S. Topics include: health research; bioethical, legal, and policy issues; scientific and cultural perspectives; social influences; environmental and lifestyle effects on health; and issues related to special populations. Guest lecturers; student debates. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Jacobson, M.; Stefanick, M.

HUMBIO 129: Critical Issues in International Women's Health
Women's lives, from childhood through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. Economic, social, and human rights factors, and the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Emphasis is on life or death issues of women's health that depend on their capacity to negotiate or feel empowered, including maternal mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and sex trafficking. Organizations addressing these issues. Prerequisites: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Murray, A.

ILAC 117N: Film, Nation, Latinidad
Examination of films from Spain, Mexico, and Latina/o USA that expand, trouble, contest, parody, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Sayles, Maria Novaro, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gregory Nava.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-4 | Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Yarbro-Bejarano, Y.

ILAC 193: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
The evolution of Spain's most recognizable director from marginal, transgressive amateur cinema to polished visual style. The deliberate blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture; his use of metafilmic allusions and attention to sexuality, extreme experiences, and marginal characters. From his early work to recent award-winning films. Prerequisite: spoken Spanish.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Resina, J.

ILAC 272E: Clarice Lispector: the Style of Ecstasy
An exploration of the presence, both in the mystic and in the erotic sense, of the feeling of ecstasy in Clarice Lispector's texts (novels, short stories, chronicles). Ecstasy favors a non-conceptual approach to writing and reading and an effect of delight that can be only communicated by words that mimitizes music and visual arts. Theoreticians of ecstasy, eroticism and epiphany: G. Bataille, H. Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy; Gumbrecht, Lyotard. Course taught English with readings in English and Portuguese.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Librandi Rocha, M.

ILAC 389E: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Cultural Representations
Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Yarbro-Bejarano, Y.

JAPANGEN 187/287. Romance, Desire, & Sexuality in MOdern Japanese Literature- Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | Instructors: Reichert, J.

SOC 134: Education, Gender, and Development (EDUC 197)
Theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to the role of education in changing, modifying, or reproducing structures of gender differentiation and hierarchy. Cross-national research on the status of girls and women and the role of development organizations and processes. (SSPEP)
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Wotipka, C.

SOC 141: Controversies about Inequality (SOC 241)
(Graduate students register for 241.) Debate format involving Stanford and guest faculty. Forms of inequality including racial, ethnic, and gender stratification; possible policy interventions. Topics such as welfare reform, immigration policy, affirmative action, discrimination in labor markets, sources of income inequality, the duty of rich nations to help poor nations, and causes of gender inequality.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | GERs: GER:DB-SocSci | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Grusky, D.

OTHER COURSES OF INTEREST

CLASSGEN 24N: Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos
Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspired by Sappho in ancient and modern times, and composers who put her poetry to music.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Peponi, A.

COMPLIT 11Q: Shakespeare, Playing, Gender
Preference to sophomores. Focus is on several of the best and lesser known plays of Shakespeare, on theatrical and other kinds of playing, and on ambiguities of both gender and playing gender. Topics: transvestism inside and outside the theater, medical and other discussions of sex changes from female to male, hermaphrodites, and fascination with the monstrous.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Parker, P.

HISTORY 36N: Gay Autobiography
Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a defining feature of their selves? Is there a difference between the way men and women view identity? What politics follow from these writers' experiences?
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Robinson, P.

HISTORY 67S: The Virgin Mary: Religion and Identity from Mexico City to Los Angeles
Examines the cult of Latin America's most venerated saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe. Focuses on Mexico and the American Southwest from the colonial period to the twentieth century and emphasizes national and ethnic identity, gender, family, syncretism, and the role of religion in immigrant communities.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Fontes, G.

HUMBIO 86Q: Love as a Force for Social Change
Preference to sophomores. Biological, psychological, religious, social and cultural perspectives on the concept of love. How love is conceptualized across cultures; love as the basis of many religions; different kinds of love; the biology of love; love as sickness; love and sex; the languages of love including art, literature, music, and poetry. Emphasis is on writing. Oral presentation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Murray, A.

IHUM 7B: Rebellious Daughters and Filial Sons of the Chinese Family: Present and Past
Second in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The stern authority of the father, nourishing care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | GERs: GER:IHUM-3 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Zhou, Y.

RELIGST 90: Buddhism and Gender
In the Buddhist tradition there are contradictory approaches to gender: in some cases, gender is described as an illusion; in others, the female body is an impediment to enlightenment. How do Buddhists - men and women, lay and monastic - interpret these divergent views? Different Buddhist approaches to the category of gender. Values associated with masculinity and femininity in Buddhist philosophy, the gendered symbolism surrounding buddhahood, images of the masculine and feminine in Buddhist texts, and the experiences of lay and monastic men and women.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Bryson, M.

GRAD COURSES

ENGLISH 357: Bishop, Plath, Rich
The work of three female poets from the second half of the 20th century. Focus is on close readings of their books and consideration of broader historical and theoretical debates about modern poetry, poetry by women, American poetry.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Jenkins, N.

HISTORY 395J: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Sommer, M.

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