COURSES
Stanford Feminist Studies & LGBT/Queer Studies Courses
2011-2012
APPROVED WIM COURSES 2011-12:
FEMST 153/253: Women and the Creative Imagination (Autumn)
ANTHRO 90A: History of Archaeological Thought (ARCHLGY 103) (Autumn)
ANTHRO 90B: Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Winter)
APPROVED THEORY COURSES 2011-12:
FEMST 140A Destroying Dichotomies:Exploring Multiple Sex, Gender & Sexual Identities (Autumn)
ANTHRO 90A: History of Archaeological Thought (ARCHLGY 103) (Autumn)
FEMST 120: Queer Raza (ILAC 287) (Winter)
FEMST 110 (COMPLIT 110): Introduction to Queer Literary Studies (Winter)
COMPLIT 133 Gender & Modernism (Spring)
FEMST 140M: Queer Popular Culture (Spring)
FEMST 164 (DRAMA 164/364H): Performance and Gender (Spring)AMSTUD 210: Critical Theory and the Environment (Spring)
ILAC 389E: Queer of Color Critique
(seniors only; previously Race/Sex/Gender in Cultural Representations)
Spring 2012 FEMST Courses
FEMST 140D: LGBT History in the United States (HISTORY 257C). An introductory course on LGBT social, cultural, and political history in the United States. This course explores how categories of sexuality have changed over time, with particular emphasis on the relationship among homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism. Students will analyze how the intersections of race, class, and sexuality influenced the constitution of these categories and the politics of social relations. Historical and literary sources will be used to examine changes in LGBT experiences and identities, primarily in the twentieth century. 4-5 units ( Davies Henderson, A)
FEMST 140M: Queer Popular Culture . Major identity issues of our time are played out in popular culture. This course investigates topics of queer gender and sexuality, and intersecting identity issues, in mainstream and 'underground' American popular culture and its reception over the last fifty years. Using critical theory texts on capitalism and identity to analyze examples drawn from popular music, film, tv, journalism, fashion, advertising, and online culture, we will consider queer culture, political debates, and Americans' changing views on identity and life. Midterm and final project. 4-5 units. (Goldin-Perschbacher, S)
FEMST 164 (DRAMA 164/364H): Performance and Gender. The intersectionality of race, sex, gender, and class in the formation of gendered performance. Readings from the work of Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, David Savran, Judith Halberstam, and David Eng. Case studies include: M. Butterfly, The Crying Game, Paris is Burning, Angels in America, and American Idol. 3-5 units (Menon, J.)
FEMST 260/ 360: Seminar in Women's Health: Women and Disabilities. 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. Disabilities covered include blindness, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, emotional and learning disabilities, and conditions requiring wheelchairs and other forms of physical assistance. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 5 units (Krieger, S)
Spring 2012 Cognates
AMSTUD 150C: The United States in the Twentieth Century (HISTORY 150C). Major political, economic, social, and diplomatic developments in the U.S. Themes: the economic and social role of government (Progressive, New Deal, Great Society, and Reagan-Bush eras); ethnic and racial minorities in society (mass immigration at the turn of the century and since 1965, the civil rights era of the 50s and 60s); the changing status of women since WW II; shifting ideological bases, institutional structures, and electoral characteristics of the political system (New Deal and post-Vietnam); determinants of foreign policy in WW I and II, and the Cold War. 5 units (Camarillo, A.)
AMSTUD 154: American Intellectual and Cultural History to the Civil War. How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science before Darwin; reform movements and utopianism; the rise of abolitionism and proslavery thought; phrenology and theories of human sexuality; and varieties of feminism. Sources include texts and images. 5 units ( Winterer, C)
AMSTUD 161: WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICA (CSRE 162, HISTORY 161). Considers the political, economic, and social development of women in the United States during a long twentieth century. How have women been shaped or constrained by gendered conceptions of work, reproduction, education, family, and culture? Have all women reacted similarly to wars and depression or domestic and foreign policy? Through personal narratives and historical accounts, the course will answer these questions, observing how women negotiated gender, race, sexuality, and class difference to achieve greater opportunity and citizenship rights. 4-5 units (Sbardellati, L.)
AMSTUD 210: Critical Theory and The Environment. Critical theoretical approaches (such as cultural studies, Marxism, postcolonial theory, cultural geography, feminism, and science studies) have generally been underutilized as methodologies for grappling with environmental situations, yet they hold much promise for addressing their complexity. This course asks: How does critical theory about the environment construe the current situation? What kinds of political or technological solutions do these theories call for or imply? The first half of the seminar introduces critical approaches and methodologies in relation to the environment. In the second section, we will use a variety of theoretical approaches to address Native American environmental politics, water, agriculture, toxics, and animals. 3-5 units ( Koelle, A)
ANTHRO 201: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology. Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films. 5 units ( Ferguson, J)
CHICANST 180E: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (CSRE 180E). Historical and contemporary experiences that have defined the status of Mexican-origin people living in the U.S. Topics include the U.S./Mexico border and the borderlands; immigration and anti-immigration sentiment; literary and cultural traditions; music; labor; historical perspectives on Mexicans in the U.S. and the Chicano movement; urban realities; gender relations; political and economic changes; and inter- and intra-group interactions. Sources include social science and humanities scholarship. 5 units ( Gallardo, S.)
CHINGEN 150: Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China . Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, postsocialist celebrations of sensuality, and emergent queer politics. Readings range from feminist theory to China-focused historiography, ethnography, memoir, biography, fiction, essay, and film. 3-5 units (Lee, H)
COMPLIT 133: Gender and Modernism. Gender and sexuality in trans-Atlantic modernist literature and culture from the 1880s-1930s. Topics include the 19th-century culture wars and the figures of the dandy and the New Woman; modernist critiques of Enlightenment rationality; impact of World War I on gender roles; gender and the rise of modern consumer culture, fashion, design; the modernist metropolis and gender/sexuality; the avant-garde and gender; literary first-wave feminism; homoerotic modernism; modernism in the context of current theories of gender and sexuality. 3-5 units (Dierkes-Thrun, P)
DRAMA 179F: Flor y Canto: Poetry Workshop (CSRE 179F, DRAMA 279F). Poetry reading and writing. The poet as philosopher and the poet as revolutionary. Texts: the philosophical meditations of pre-Columbian Aztec poetry known as flor y canto, and reflections on the poetry of resistance born out of the nationalist and feminist struggles of Latin America and Aztlán. Required 20-page poetry manuscript. 3-5 units ( Moraga, C)
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) 4 units ( Wotipka, C)
FILMSTUD 136: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Cinema.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. 4 units (Ma, J)
FRENGEN 192E: Images of Women in French Cinema: 1930-1990 . The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context. The mythology of stars as the imaginary vehicle that helped France to change from traditional society to modern nation after 1945. Filmmakers include Renoir, Truffaut, and Nelly Kaplan. The evolution of the role of women in France over 60 years. Lectures in English; films in French with English subtitles. Either 3 or 5 units. Cannot be taken for 4 units. (Apostolides, J-M.)
FRENLIT 132: Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France. Major literary genres and social and cultural contexts. Focus is on the emergence of new literary forms such as surréalisme, nouveau roman, and nouveau théatre. Topics of colonization, decolonization, and feminism. Readings include Balzac, Baudelaire, Césaire, Colette, and Ionesco. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor. 4 units (Kassabova, B.)
FRENLIT 179: Le Roman au féminin: French Women Writers from the 90's and 00's. From Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes (1996) to Christine Angot, Virginie Despentes, Nothomb, or Marie NDiaye, women writers have been regularly stealing the show since the 1990's. What does it say about the French society? What do they say about contemporary France, and how? Do they transgress literary genres, carving out new literary spaces for unspoken points of views, or are they transcending the notion of écriture feminine that might too conveniently reduce their scandalous novels to a label? Prerequisite: FRENLIT 130 (or higher) or consent of instructor. 3-5 units (Alduy, C.)
HISTORY 134A: The European Witch Hunts. 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. 5 units (Stokes, L)
HISTORY 193: Late Imperial China. A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the Jesuits in China, peasant rebellion, ethnic conflict, opium, and the impact of Western imperialism. 5 units (Sommer, M)
HISTORY 263G: History Through a Life: The Allure of American Biography (HISTORY 363G). Considers the possibilities and limitations of exploring U.S. history through the genre of biography. Is a single life too narrow to explain why and how pivotal events in U.S. history, such as war, economic depression, social revolution, unfold? Or can one life illuminate the complexity of historical shifts? Readings will span U.S. history, exploring topics such as labor and racial civil rights, science and culture, women and sexuality, transnationalism and diplomacy, law and presidential politics. The craft of biography will be considered alongside biographical subjects. 4-5 units (Sbardellati, L.)
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. 2-3 units ( Jacobson, M ; Stefanick, M)
ILAC 193: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar. Pedro Almodoar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in the world today. His films express a hybrid and eclectic visual style and the blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture. Special attention is paid to questions of sexuality and the centering of usually marginalized characters. This course studies Pedro Almodovar’s development from his directorial debut to the present, from the shock value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones. Prerequisite: ability to understand spoken Spanish. Readings in English. Midterm and final paper can be in English. Majors should write in Spanish. 3-5 units (Resina, J)
ILAC 389E: Queer of Color Critique. (Grad course, FMST seniors may apply; previously Race/Sex/Gender 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? (Yarbro-Bejarano, Y)
INDE 215: Queer Health and Medicine. Explores specific, pertinent, and timely issues impacting the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; examines the role of the primary care physician in addressing the health care needs of this community. Guest lecturers provide a gender-sensitive approach to the medical care of the LGBT patient, breaking down homophobic barriers and reaffirming patient diversity. 1 unit
LAW 307: Gender, Law, and Public Policy. Topics in this course will include equal protection standards, employment, family, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, pornography, sexual orientation, diversity in the profession, feminist legal theory, international human rights, and intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. Materials will include cases, commentary, problems, and media portrayals. 3 units (Rhode, D)
LAW 576: Sexual Orientation and the Law. This seminar focuses on how the law addresses many of the most contested contemporary issues concerning sexual orientation. It approaches the material as an exercise in advanced constitutional law, exploring how courts have used or might use federal or state constitutional provisions to address issues regarding the criminalization of sodomy, anti-gay rights initiatives, the Boy Scouts, military recruiting on campus, gays in the military, and the marriage and parenting rights of same-sex couples. Special attention is paid to the unfolding debate on same-sex marriage as a case study on the contested role of courts as engines of social change. 2 units (Schacter, J.)
MED 108Q: Human Rights and Health. Preference to sophomores. 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. 3 units (Laws, A)
OSPBER 174: Sports, Culture, and Gender in Comparative Perspective Theory and history of mass spectator sports and their role in modern societies. Comparisons with U.S., Britain, and France; the peculiarities of sports in German culture. Body and competition cultures, with emphasis on the entry of women into sports, the modification of body ideals, and the formation and negotiation of gender identities in and through sports. The relationship between sports and politics, including the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 5 units (Junghanns, W.)
OSPKYOCT 198: Women's Issues in Japan. Women’s issues as related to men’s issues in Japan. The house system and the legalized prostitution system in modern Japan. Topics include marriage, gender division of labor, child bearing, contraception, and domestic violence. How the private sphere is influenced by the public sphere including politics, economy, and culture. 6 units
PEDS 223: Human Rights and Global Health Open to medical students, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. A survey of the field of human rights and global health issues, with an emphasis on issues relevant to health professionals. Topics include the basic international conventions of human rights law, the origins and evolution of the legal notion of health as a human right, the role of health professionals in documenting the health consequences of conflict and human rights violations, health and women's human rights, health and children's human rights, the health status of refugees and displaced persons, torture, bioethics and human rights, and the worldwide availability of medicinal drugs. 3 units (Patenaude, B. /Magnus, D.)
SOC 118: Social Movements and Collective Action (SOC 218). Why social movements arise, who participates in them, the obstacles they face, the tactics they choose, and how to gauge movement success or failure. Theory and empirical research. Application of concepts and methods to social movements such as civil rights, environmental justice, antiglobalization, and anti-war. 5 units (McAdam, D)
SOC 135: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in the United States (SOC 235). Causes and consequences. Effects of antipoverty policies, and debates over effective social policies. Focus is on how poverty and inequality are experienced by families, children, and communities. Topics include welfare reform and labor market policies, education, and community-based antipoverty strategies. 5 units (Young, C.)
SOC 152: The Social Determinants of Health (SOC 252). How social differences, such as where we live, whether and how we work, or how much money we make, and our gender, race or ethnicity, also play a role in who gets sick and who does not. 5 units (Saperstein, A)
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. 4-5 units (Rosenfeld, M)
