Women and Culture 3 credits This course compares and contrasts women's roles across time and space. It includes discussions about biological differences between men and women, and how these differences do and do not affect women's ability to lead, fight, and learn. It also shows the broad range of experiences women have in contemporary cultures, privileging materialist theory in accounting for them. WS115 or permission of instructor. The attitudes of the legal and justice systems are studied.
Prevention is emphasized.
Women in Politics 3 credits A survey of women and politics as they relate to political theory, world affairs, law, public policy, social movements, and elections. WS370 Women Writers 3 credits A study of selected works by significant female writers, including at least one work outside the British and American traditions. This course is devoted to the critical analysis of representations of women in normative mass media content. This course charts the various contributions of anthropologists, feminist theorists and others toward a rethinking of the aims and methods of feminist anthropology. WS115 or permission of instructor.