This course is an introduction to the cultural and structural mechanisms that reproduce gendered outcomes in the workplace. It addresses occupational segregation, the wage gap, sex differences in promotions, unpaid family work, explanations of inequality, strategies for change and resistance for change, and the intersections of gender, race, and class. The earliest known sculptor in colonial America was a woman. Her work and that produced by successive women in U.S. visual culture are the focus of this course. Students are also introduced to critical writings on representations of women in the arts and to the varieties of politicized responses from Goddesses to Guerilla Girls to cultural bias against women.
Course focuses upon novels that explore the social and personal implications of sexism.
An examination of the representation of women in literature. An examination of selected works by significant women writers. Course introduces the student to the works of 20th century Spanish women writers and the critical attention they receive. Supplementary readings from critical and theoretical works. Using feminist theories of performance read plays by women of color, white women, one African-American man.