Discussions and readings will focus on the interconnectedness of gender, class, and ethnicity with respect to contemporary women's lives. First Day Attendance Required. See description above. Strongest focus will be on female eroticism, desire, body image, and the influence of personal identities and cultural politics on women's sexual behaviors, attitudes, and experiences. The nutritional needs of pregnant women, infants, children and Adolescents in health and disease are discussed in this course.
Emphasis is on maintaining health and preventing chronic disease.
First Day Attendance Required See description above . In this course we will explore gender issues in literature from Islamic cultures in the United States and abroad with regard to women's roles in society, religion, and the family, the political and cultural politics of veiling, women's sexuality, and issues relating to women of Islamic culture growing up in the West, particularly in the United States. This course addresses the convergence of current Postcolonial theory with both Western and Global Feminist theories and the concurrent applications of these theoretical perspectives to contemporary literary and theatrical production that plays out the dynamics of gender and postcoloniality.