We will carry out this investigation through reading and discussion of texts that grew out of the Independent Counsel's investigation into President's Clinton relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Debates about gender and sexuality will inform our examination of texts ranging from the legal to the journalistic. We will ask ourselves about the gender implications of legal techniques in the testimonies, about the portrayal of sexual politics in relationships between men and women, and about the importance of the body. Grading will be based on class participation, short class presentations, as well as brief written materials. 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. Historians often claim that after the vote was won, feminism declined, only re-emerging when the 1960's contraceptive pill facilitated the Women's Liberation Movement and contemporary feminism. The themes of education, paid work, health, politics, cultural production, religion, sex and race discrimination, sexuality, birth control, gender relations, crystallize the issues. In this short course we will briefly examine some of the explanations for the gender gap. We will look at the progress women have made and at suggested remedies.