Graduate Courses
Spring 2005

G601: Seminar in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Feminist Knowledge & Scientific Practice

Feminist Knowledge and Scientific Practice examines intersections of gender and knowledge, with a particular focus on feminist analyses of scientific epistemology and practice. It explores the implications of various, and sometimes conflicting, feminist theories about the social meaning and the gendered construction of scientific research. It also analyzes representations of race, class, sexuality, and cultural difference in medical, psychological, and evolutionary accounts of human nature. Topics include the history and politics of sexual difference in scientific discourse; feminist perspectives on, and appropriations of, the concept of objectivity; the circulation of scientific findings and technologies in popular culture; and the formulation of alternative scientific methods and knowledge. An overarching concern of this course is the critical analysis of disciplinary boundaries, and the creation of interdisciplinary scholarship.

• Lecture: 2:30-3:45 - T/R - Instructor: Gremillion 
  (Offered with Gender G 402 and joint listed with American Studies G620
   and Cultural Studies C701 which meets simultaneously).

G601: Seminar in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: All Gay All the Time: Sexuality & Citizenship in the Age of Visibility

In the past 20 years, lesbians and gays have catapulted into the cultural limelight, moving from a space of invisibility and coded stereotypes to an almost obsessive "spectacularization." How are we to understand this new social and cultural visibility of lesbians and gays? What identities are made known - and which ones are further obscured - in the new commodification of difference?  Why is the viewing public down with "Queer Eye" but down on gay marriage?  And why has gay marriage emerged as the hot political issue of the future while sexual freedom has become a tired watchword of an outmoded past? The class will focus on feminist and queer conceptions and reconceptions of citizenship, how sexual practices, identities, and communities become defining characteristics of appropriate national identity, and how popular media helps to frame debates and define subjectivities. We will interrogate the (vexed) relationship between contested gender and sexual identities, claims of citizenship and inclusion, contradictory media practices, and visions of a liberatory and emancipated civil society.

• Lecture 1:00-3:30 -W - Instructor: Walters
  (Offered with Gender G 402 which meets simultaneously)

G695: Graduate Readings and Research in Gender Studies (3-6 credits)

Requires course authorization from Gender Studies.

This course exists to enable Ph.D. Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member who does research in the student's area of interest supervises study. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration and in consultation with a faculty member and the Chair of Gender Studies.

G701: Gender and Discourse (3 credits)
Topic: Disability Between Law and Culture

Disability between Law and Culture will investigate disability as it intersects with gender, law, medicine, and culture. We will carry out this investigation through reading and discussion of visual and verbal texts. We will begin with the Americans with Disabilities Act and continue by examining the relationship of physically handicapped or otherwise marginalized individuals (male and females) and society. Our analytical tools will come from studies on the body, medicine, and gender, as well as recent works that reflect the emerging field of disability studies. We will ask ourselves about the nature of disability, its physiological or social construction, the creation of discourses of disability, and how these discourses intersect with larger discourses of law, medicine, sexuality, gender and the body.

• Lecture: 8:45-10:50 - T - Instructor: Malti-Douglas 
  (Offered with Gender G 485 which meets simultaneously)

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