Challenges students to go beyond discussion of stereotypes and examine strategic and tactical choices of women today that will influence the socio-economic and political conditions of women tomorrow. Emphasis on the experiences and thoughts of prominent American women as well as the position of minority women in American life. Cross-listed with BUS 387. Examines the status and condition of women in Western society in the 16th century, the 19th century, and today. Considers their issues and our issues together.
Male students welcome.
Interdisciplinary readings from fiction, autobiography, history and anthropology. Male students welcome. Cross-listed as ANTH 404 and HIST 404. Uses novels, short stories, life histories, films, other primary materials and scholarly works to examine the lives of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese women in the 20th century. Topics include the traditional role of women, women and work, reproductive issues, women and revolution, and male representations of women's experience.