The course surveys all of the fundamental topics in the literature of demography, from death and birth rates, through marriage and household formation, to the origin and quality of data. A topic such as gender relations or the role of the state is examined through readings about son preference or population policy in low-fertility advanced industrial societies. Students will also receive an introduction to the principal methods of demographic analysis. Available from the Gender Studies office, Memorial Hall East 130, 855-0101. This course exists to enable Gender Studies Major and Undergraduate Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of particular topics not usually covered in existing courses.
Work is supervised by an appropriate faculty member.
Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty sponsor and the Chair of Gender Studies. Yet fiction formed less than a third of her prolific writings as a suffrage-era public intellectual, editor, and essayist. The seminar evaluates recent conflicting readings of Gilman's non-fiction and fiction works interconnecting gender, race, sexuality, and evolution, setting this work in its historical and contemporary contexts through close analysis of works by Gilman and her peers. The study of women in Victorian England has been going on for at least a generation. The study of gender and masculinity are quite new.