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Undergraduate
Courses Fall 2008
G101:
Gender, Culture & Society (3 credits) (A&H)
Gender,
Culture & Society provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study
of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and
masculinity - by examining relevant beliefs, practices, debates and political
struggles. Lectures, readings, and class discussions consider how people of
different races, ethnicities, classes, and nationalities in various
historical periods have assumed gendered identities. Topics may include:
romantic love and marriage; sexuality; parenthood, reproduction , birth
control and new reproductive technologies; interpersonal violence; the
scientific study of sexual differences; fitness, health, body image, and popular
culture; the sexual division of labor and economic development; and feminist
movements.
Section 9810 01:00P-02:15P TR BU 411 Frazier L
ABOVE SECTION RESERVED FOR HONORS STUDENTS
Section 16690
10:10A-11:00A MWF BH 236 Harrison L
Section 16691
11:15A-12:05P MWF BH 236 Harrison L
Section 16692 04:00P-05:15P TR BH 319 Rowley S
Section 16693 02:30P-03:45P TR BH 209 Rowley S
Section 16694
12:20P-01:10P MWF BH 322 Hill B
Section 16695
01:25P-02:15P MWF SY 105 Hill B
Section 16696
02:30P-03:20P MWF BH 335 Shand A
Section 16697
03:35P-04:25P MWF ARR
Shand A
Section 26961
11:15A-12:05P MWF BH 149 Wall J
Section 26963
10:10A-11:00A MWF BH 233 Wall J
G104:
Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits) (A&H)
Topic:
Gender, Violence and Autobiography
In this course, we will use twentieth and twenty-first
century U.S. autobiographical writings as a site from which to consider the
gendered dimensions of experiencing and recounting personal violence. Working from an understanding of gender as
socially constructed and fluid, and an understanding of experience as
culturally-influenced rather than wholly personal, we will attempt to
understand the various ways in which autobiographical tellings of violent
experiences are impacted by gendered conventions and expectations. We will
begin by developing a common vocabulary and theoretical base from which to
think about gender identity, personal violation, and autobiographical
writing, being attentive to the fact that each of these terms has generated
considerable scholarship, debate, and popular representation.
Section
17571 09:30A-10:45A TR
SE 245
Schusterbauer E
G104:
Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits) (A&H)
Topic:
Representing Black Women in Popular Culture
This interdisciplinary course uses feminist theories of
intersectionality to study representations of black women in popular media
outlets. It will provide students with a survey of historic and
contemporary depictions of “blackness” and “womanhood” in American visual
culture. Through the lens of feminist theory, we will examine race,
class, gender, and sexuality and will consider their mutually constitutive
relationship to capital and representations of “blackness” and
“womanhood.” Considering the socially constructed nature of identity
formation and belonging, we will consider the effects of capitalism,
advertising, and modernization projects on black women. Demonstrating
the critical value of black women to notions of progress, this course will
use print media as its “point of access” into modernity. Using colonization
and imperialism as the starting point, we will critically examine not only
hegemonic depictions of black women, but will also study the ways in which
black women themselves have historically participated in this globalizing
process: the Diapora of black womanhood.
Section
27709 11:15A-12:30P TR
BH 247
Thomas-Williams C
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH AAAD-A198
G104:
Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits) (S&H)
Topic:
Latinas in the U.S.
This course
focuses on the experiences of Latinas in the United States. Although
many believe that Latinas, women of Latin American heritage in the United
States, arrived only recently, in fact thousands of Latinas can trace their
ancestry in territories that became part of the United States back to the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, well before the great waves
of European and Asian immigrants. We will examine how Latinas'
experiences and cultural expressions are shaped by intersections of race,
gender, and class. The course would begin with a theoretical framework of the
Latina experience. Thereafter, we will focus on how the institutions of
health, education, and work perpetuate inequalities. Discussions will include
the following topics: Exclusion of women of color in feminist theory; Chicana
Feminist Discourse; Latinas in Education; Latinas and Health; and Latinas and
Work.
Section 18017 11:15A-12:30P TR
SY 001
Martinez S
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH LATS-L 104
G105:
Sex, Gender and the Body (3 credits) (S&H)
Concepts of
self are shaped and expressed through understandings of the nature of the
body. Culturally speaking, bodies tend to be assigned to categories and to be
ascribed certain tendencies, abilities, or deficiencies based on these
understandings. These assigned categories and ascribed characteristics are
often shaped by notions of sex and/or gender. This course addresses sex and
gender as culturally and historically specific constructions of difference
and identity, which are intertwined and inform one another. It
investigates the ways that perceptions of sex and gender are realized in and
through the body as actor and the body as subject of discourse. The
investigation of these issues leads into the domains of cross-cultural
comparison, science, health, sexuality, reproduction, and body image.
This course is excellent preparation for further and upper level studies of
gender, the body, sex differences, political, social, international, philosophical,
anthropological, and cultural studies of men and women.
LECTURE 10:10A-11:00A MW MO 007 Williams, K
Section
16680 02:30P-03:20P W OP 107 Williams, K
ABOVE SECTION OPEN TO HONORS STUDENTS ONLY
Section 16676 11:15A-12:05P F
BH 335
Hu Y
Section 16672 12:20P-01:10P F
BH 237
Leimbach J
Section 16677 01:25P-02:15P F
BH 335 Hu Y
Section 16674 02:30P-03:20P F
BH 011
Leimbach J
Section 16679 02:30P-03:20P F
BH 335
Hu Y
Section 16675 03:35P-04:25P F
BH 011 Leimbach J
G205: Themes in Gender Studies (3 credits) (S&H)
Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Crime: Sex Crime and Punishment
Sex Crime and Punishment is an interdisciplinary course that
concerns gendered and sexualized representations of crime through issues like
sexual violence, pornography, and prostitution as well as throughfigures of
deviance like the serial killer and the sexual predator who are frequently
represented in contemporary mass media. In particular, thiscourse
considersthe relationships between criminality and gendered and sexualized
forms of deviance across multiple disciplines, including law, sociology,
psychology, philosophy, media studies, art history, literature, and cultural
criticism.Course material ranges from particular films, cases from the law,
newspaper articles, and popular writings from psychiatrists, lawyers, and
medical doctors from the past century to scholarly work by feminist and queer
historians and theorists of social control. Special topics include the
figures of particular ‘criminals’ like Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper,
Jeffrey Dahmer, and H.H. Holmes (the killer profiled in Erik Larson’s
bestseller The Devil in the
White City);the Black Dahlia murder; Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator;and
recent legal cases on rape. Film viewings range from silent classics like
Fritz Lang’s M to
women-in-prison B-movies from the 1940s and 1950s to more contemporary
blockbusters like The Silence
of the Lambs and
Notes on a Scandal. Course readings, viewings, lecture notes, and
discussions will be organized to show how concepts like normality and
deviance, publicity and privacy, legality and illegality, vengeance and
justice, and citizenship and non-citizenship have particularly gendered
dimensions within public discourse.
Section
26966 09:30A-10:45A TR BH 003 Lane B
G205: Themes in Gender Studies (3 credits) (S&H)
Theme:
Rich man, Poor man: Masculinities, Power, and Money
This course explores the
ways in which hegemonic or
idealized masculinity depends upon economic success, how
the shift from a manfucturing based economy to a white collar/service economy
has changed the way we conceptualize masculinity, how men perform masculinity
in working class or poor contexts, and the way in which men are currently
being framed as consumers, not simply workers. Some of the texts we may
analyze include: King of the Hill, 30 Rock, Fight Club, Office Space, Eight
Mile, and Mall Rats.
Section 26965 11:15A-12:30P MW
SY 200
Weida S
G206: Gay Histories, Queer Cultures (3 credits) (S&H)
Examines the social, cultural and political history of
same-sex relationships and desires in the United States and abroad,
emphasizing the historical emergence of certain American sexual subcultures
such as the modern lesbian and gay "movement" or
"community." The course also highlights particular formations such
as race, class, gender and regional differences that interrupt unified,
universal narratives of lesbian and gay history.
Section 26983 01:00P-02:15P TR
WH 121
Bailey M
G225:
Gender, Sexuality, & Popular Culture (3 credits) (A&H,
CSA)
Gender,
Sexuality & Popular Culture surveys the making and meaning of masculinity,
femininity and sexuality in popular culture. Emphasizing ways in which the
form and technology of popular culture have changed during the twentieth
century, the course explores gender/sexuality in such contexts as: fiction,
theater, cinema, music, television, journalism and other mass media. Issues
interrogated may include: gender and the power of the image; sex and
spectatorship; melodrama, film noir and "the women's film"; rock
music women and MTV; race, age and representation; masculinity and femininity;
and violence and pornography.
Section 9813 05:45P-07:00P TR
BH 204 Weber B
Section 14646 11:15A-12:30P TR
SE 140 TBA
Section 9814 02:30P-03:45P TR
BH 228 TBA
Section
9815 02:30P-03:45P TR
BQ C147A Weber B
A PORTION OF THE ABOVE SECTION RESERVED FOR
HONORS STUDENTS. HONORS STUDENTS MUST
ALSO REGSITER FOR THE FOLLOWING ONE CREDIT HOUR HONORS DISCUSSION
SECTION:
Section 26984 04:00P-05:00P T BQ C147A Weber B
G300: Gender Studies: Core Concepts and Key Debates (3 credits) (Intensive Writing)
Examination of the field of Gender Studies. Students
will explore a series of themes through which gender is discussed, analyzed,
and defined. Conceptual frameworks of gender, theories of sexuality, and the
cultural and historical construction of the body are emphasized.
Examination of gender as a contested, category ranging across categories of
race, ethnicity, class and nationality.
Section 26989 04:00P-05:15P TR
BH 231
Frazier L
G302:
Issues in Gender Studies (3 credits) (A&H)
Topic: Black Women in America to 1980
Black women’s
history is a revealing witness to two intertwined
categories of
identity that have profoundly shaped the course of
American history:
race and gender. The history of this field demands
that students
confront racial identity as something formed in
dialogue with other
aspects of identity including gender, class,
religion, sexuality, regional
loyalties and national affiliation.
Section: 29720
TR 1:00 – 2:15 BH 003
Myers, A
G302: Issues in Gender Studies (3
credits) (A&H)
Topic: Comparative Politics of Reproductive
Health
The Comparative Politics of Reproductive Health In political
science, the body tends to be considered a private matter, except for
contentious issues such as abortion and birth control, which serve as windows
onto the politics of religion. Beyond that, the embodiment and performance of
reproduction are considered personal and thus apolitical. This course
aims to challenge our categories of “public” and “private,” of “political”
and “personal,” by investigating a range of issues around reproduction and
health and how they are handled by the state, or rather, by a variety of
different governments and political actors. Topics such as pregnancy and
childbirth, breastfeeding, compulsory HPV vaccination, genital cutting,
prostitution, incest prohibition, assisted reproductive technologies,
surrogacy, and adoption will offer empirical case studies that help us
explore the governance of bodies and the economics of reproduction. Readings
will be drawn from the history of science and medicine, medical anthropology,
comparative public policy, gender theory, and normative political theory.
Section: 29483
MW 11:15 – 12:30 SB
150 Sissenich, B
G302:
Issues in Gender Studies (3 credits) (A&H)
Topic:
Stigma: Culture, Deviance and Identity
Cultural
value systems in every society rely on sets of mutually defining terms -- for
example, normal/abnormal, able-bodied/disabled, heterosexual/homosexual, white/non-white
-- that largely determine local attitudes of acceptance or ostracism
regarding particular categories of persons. Focusing on social stigma
allows us to understand how specific cultural value systems affect our most
intimate senses of self, and indeed contribute to our very notions of
personhood. Stigma theory speaks broadly to the nature of the social
relationships that create marked categories of persons, regardless of the
particular attributes devalued. In this class we look both at theory and at
particular cases of devaluation, since attention to the particularities of a
given stigma keys us in to the complex of cultural values that create it. The
theoretical centerpiece of this course is Erving Goffman's 1963 study Stigma:
Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. We will read this text
closely to appreciate Goffman's insights, and attempt throughout the semester
to update the language he uses to convey his points by applying his model to
more recent historical and ethnographic case studies of stigmatized persons
and groups. Our primary focus will be on the range and efficacy of the
various strategies available for managing and/or deflating stigma. We
will consider the work of artists and activists that addresses contemporary cases
of stigma involving class, race, disability, gender and sexuality. We will
view related film clips in class, and full length films at bi-weekly evening
screenings. Online postings on a class discussion site helps students
participate fully and regularly in class discussions.
Section
16722
11:15A-12:30P TR C2 100 Seizer S
Required Screening 07:30P-10:00P R
WY 015
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH CMCL-C 333
G330: Looking
Like a Feminist: Visual Culture and Critical Theory (3 credits) (A&H)
Advanced study of feminist film
theory which examines gender in popular film from a variety of
perspectives. Examines how cinema
works as a “technology of gender,” how film constructs subject positions and
identities, and what these constructions can tell us about how gender
structures our culture.
Section 29958 05:45P-07:00P TR
BH 246
G402:
Problems in Gender Studies (3 credits) (S&H)
Topic:
Gender, Race and Science
Long
fascinated with differences between human beings, scientists have had a
crucial role in the construction of race, gender, and sexuality. Scientists
have continually driven or challenged cultural understandings of these
categories, but scientific inquiry has similarly been shaped by the
scientists’ existing ideas about human difference, capacities, and power.
Moreover, scientists have never worked in isolation or without contestation.
The individuals or groups under scrutiny have by turns internalized or
actively challenged scientific categorization, resisted medical control, or
demanded treatment. In other words, scientific inquiry—and its reception in
the wider society—is a product of its specific historical and cultural
context. For that reason, while focusing somewhat on the United States,
this course is transnational and trans-historical in scope, prioritizing
comparison and selective case studies over comprehensive study of a specific
time or place. Through assigned readings, class discussions, and written
work, students will explore how conceptions of race and gender both construct
and are constructed by science and medicine.
We will interrogate how and why scientific knowledge is produced, and
examine the dynamic relationship between science and its (raced and gendered)
subjects.
Section 16731 09:30A-10:45A TR BH 149 Stein M
G402:
Problems in Gender Studies (3 credits) (S&H)
Topic: The
Politics of Marriage
Marriage is a topic familiar to us all. It is something we associate with adulthood
and maturity, with love, and, in some cases, with family. Scholars have studied marriage as one of
the major building blocks of human society, intrigued by its variation in
form and content across cultures. This
course will examine marriage as a political institution, one that facilitates
alliances between groups, produces systems of inequality between men and
women and among different classes of people, and creates exclusionary
boundaries through legal regulation.
The course will introduce students to various feminist and
anthropological theories of marriage and will apply those theories to
specific case studies from around the world and across time periods. We will discuss such topics as "mail order"
and arranged marriages, the racial politics of marriage, marriage and welfare
reform, global wedding industries, and current legal struggles over same-sex
marriage.
Section 27065 11:15A-12:30P TR SB231 Friedman S
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH ANTH-E 436
G410: International Feminist Debates (3 credits) (S&H) (CSA)
Investigation of debates among feminists as to whether
aspirations towards global feminism are possible and desirable. The course
compares concerns about the global situation of women, as articulated by
international bodies such as the United Nations, with concerns articulated by
feminists in different parts of the world.
Section 26990 02:30P-03:45P TR
WH 114 Williams K
Section 29887 05:45P-07:00P TR BH 139
Williams K
G480:
Practicum in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Restricted to
Gender Studies Majors/Minors
Prerequisite:
junior or senior standing; 12 credit hours of gender studies course work;
project approved by instructor. Directed study of aspects of policy related
to gender studies issues based on field experience. Directed readings,
practicum in social agency, papers and analytical journal required.
Section
9816 ARR ARR ARR Walters S
G485:
Gender and Discourse (3 credits) (Intensive Writing)
This is a
special topics course on writing about gender-related topics for a mass
readership. In the class, we will read
contemporary materials on such topics as gay marriage, presidential politics,
birth control, AIDS, abortion, post-feminism, and masculinity appearing in
such periodicals as Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, MS., The Chronicle of
Higher Education, The New York
Times Magazine, and Atlantic
Monthly. Since this is a
writing-intensive class, we will also work to hone your skills as a potential
writer for such publications.
Assignments will thus be geared toward concrete assignments that might
help you compile a portfolio of work demonstrating your abilities to reflect
on gender for a public forum - these include book and film reviews, letters
to the editor, op/ed opinion columns and/or extended essays.
Section
26994 11:15A-12:30P TR
WH 112 Weber B
G495:
Readings and Research in Gender Studies (1-3 credits)
Must have at
least junior standing
Requires
course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail:
gender@indiana.edu)
The undergraduate
Readings and Research course exists to enable Gender Studies BA and
undergraduate minor students to undertake intensive independent study of
particular topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate
faculty member supervises the work. Students interested in independent study
should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty
member and the Chair of Gender Studies.
Section
9817 ARR ARR ARR Walters S
G498/701:
Seminar in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic:
Art, Gender and Psychology
How does
gender interact with art and psychology?
To what degree does art reflect specific psychological phenomena, and
how is this further altered and refined by gender? How do these relate to the interface of
photography and psychology? Our course
will examine issues like these by focusing in depth on selected artists,
works, and photographic collections.
Section 28526 08:45A-10:45A T
MM 131 Malti-Douglas F
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH GNDR-G 701
Graduate Courses
Fall 2008
G600:
Concepts of Gender (3 credits)
This course
introduces historical, theoretical, behavioral, philosophical, scientific,
multi- and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and its meanings, exploring
its disciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and implications. Attention is
given to the emergence of the category "gender" itself, and its
variable applications to different fields of knowledge, experience, cultural
expression, and institutional regulation. The class will be taught as
seminar. Readings are to be done before class so that you may fully
participate in the discussion.
This
course deals with aspects of human sexuality and gender in a straight-forward
and explicit manner. If this is a problem for you, please do not take this
course.
Section 14444 11:00A-01:30P T
MO 313
Sanders S
ABOVE CLASS MEETS AT KINSEY INSTITUTE,
MORRISON HALL 313
A PORTION OF THE ABOVE CLASS RESERVED FOR
PHD STUDENTS IN GENDER STUDIES
G602:
Feminist Theory: Classic Texts &
Founding Debates (3 credits)
This
course explores what are considered some of the founding texts of
contemporary feminist theory. These
works ask basic questions about identity, ethics, knowledge, sexuality,
etc. Such works have emerged in
relation to a variety of theoretical discourses, such as Marxism,
structuralism, cultural studies, and others.
We will examine the intellectual history of feminist theory and its
resonance with more recent trends in gender studies. As an advanced class, I expect a
familiarity with the basic tenets of Anglo-American feminist theory.
Section 26995 02:3005:00P W
MM 131
Maher, J
G695:
Graduate Readings and Research in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Requires
course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail:
gender@indiana.edu).
This course
exists to enable Ph.D. Major and 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.
Section
9818 ARR ARR ARR Walters S
ABOVE
CLASS OPEN TO GRADUATE STUDENT ONLY
OBTAIN
ON-LINE AUTH FOR ABOVE CLASS FROM DEPARTMENT
G696:
Research Colloquium in Gender Studies (1-3 credits)
Requires
course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail:
gender@indiana.edu).
This course
exists to enable Ph.D. Major and 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.
Section 16981 01:00P-02:15P R
HD TBA Walters S
ABOVE CLASS MEETS AT THE KINSEY INSTITUTE,
MO 313
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH ANOTHER SECTION OF
GNDR-G 696
Section 18758 01:00P-02:15P R
HD TBA Walters s
ABOVE CLASS MEETS AT THE KINSEY INSTITUTE,
MO 313
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH ANOTHER SECTION OF
GNDR-G 696
ABOVE CLASS GRADED ON S/F BASIS ONLY
G701/498:
Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic:
Art, Gender and Psychology
How does
gender interact with art and psychology?
To what degree does art reflect specific psychological phenomena, and
how is this further altered and refined by gender? How do these relate to the interface of
photography and psychology? Our course
will examine issues like these by focusing in depth on selected artists,
works, and photographic collections.
Section 28526 08:45A-10:45A T
ARR
Malti-Douglas F
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH GNDR-G 498
G701:
Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic:
Queer Historicism
Over the past
several decades historians of gender and sexuality have gotten rather good at
studying the lesbian and gay past. In
fact, and at the risk of overstating the case somewhat, one might go so far
as to argue that lesbian and gay history has become a relatively respectable
area of specialization within the profession.
While there is much to celebrate about this development, there is also
good reason to pause and reflect on its implications. For in addition to yielding an
extraordinarily compelling body of new scholarship on a topic that once dared
not speak its name, the lesbian and gay historical establishment has also
necessarily embraced a number of methodological conventions and normative
habits of mind that may or may not be particularly advantageous in the
context our of political present. With
this problematic in mind, our purpose of this seminar will be twofold. First, we will survey a methodologically
diverse range of contemporary scholarship that deals with the history of
same-sex sexual behavior and gender non-conformity, particularly scholarship
that deals with these issues in the context of the United States. At the same time, we will also consider the
work of some familiar critics, philosophers and theorists whose rich insights
into history’s function as an epistemological formation are really only just
beginning to be taken up with any seriousness by most students of the history
of gender and sexuality. These
thinkers include Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, Gilles
Deleuze, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov,
and Virginia
Woolf, to name just a few. Ultimately
our goal will be to consider the following question: If “lesbian and gay history” is properly
the study of identity formation as many influential social constructionists
have argued, what would queer history look like?
Section 28528 03:00P-05:30P M
MM 131 Johnson C
G701:
Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Queer Film Theory and Criticism
What
does "queer" mean--and how does it function--when it is applied to
film theory, film criticism, and filmmaking?
On the road to queerness, this course first stops to consider the
historical development of "the homosexual" as a category; gay and
lesbian film theory and criticism; and the challenges of bisexual work in
film studies. From the evolution of
contemporary understandings of queerness vis-a-vis political activism and
identity politics, this course will proceed to examine New Queer Cinema,
queering the mainstream, and "post-queer" cinema.
Films/videos
shown at weekly screenings include Madchen
in Uniform, The Living End, Zero Patience, Pink Flamingos, Calamity Jane,
Paris is Burning, Tongues Untied, Sadie Benning and Kenneth Anger shorts, Go
Fish, Boys Don't Cry, and Stonewall.
Section
04:00P-06:30P T C2 272 Doty, A
Film Screening Monday Evenings 7:15 –
10:15P SW 007
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH CMCL-C793
G701:
Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Women of African Dispora
Over the last decade, the concept of a “Black Atlantic” or “African Diaspora” has become a powerful theoretical and ideological construct in the academic world. What, however, makes scholars believe that residents of vastly differing nations, who speak a multitude of languages and practice oft-conflicting faith systems, are members of a global community? What common factors draw such disparate peoples together, and what unique local experiences prevent scholars from entirely subsuming those they study into one common category? Is it color, enduring institutions of family or food-ways, the specter of slavery, or something else altogether that binds together black people worldwide? Or is it perhaps nothing more than our own yearning for community that makes us see connections where there are none?
Section 29726
06:00P-08:00P T BH 141 Myers, A
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH HIST-H650
G704: Cultural
Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century (3 credits)
Of all the great innovations of the twentieth century, the emergence
of modern discourses of gender and sexuality must certainly rank high in
terms of the effect it has had on the culture and the politics of everyday
life. This course examines the cultural and political implications of
gender and sexuality’s emergence as a public discourse during the twentieth
century. Specifically, it examines certain limit cases in which the
ostensibly private matters of gender and sexual behavior and sexual identity
have given rise to very public controversies about the cultural and political
values of society at large. Primarily, we will examine these cultural
politics through a feminist and queer theoretical lens.
Section 26996
03:00P-05:30P R WH 119 Bailey M
G899: PhD Thesis (1-12 credits)
Requires course
authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail:
gender@indiana.edu).
This course exists to
enable Ph.D. Major and 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.
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