INSTRUCTOR: MELISSA STEIN
MEETING TIMES: W 4:00-6:30
The politics of health impact our lives and communities in innumerable ways, and have been omnipresent in the news—from the health disparities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to recent legislation limiting reproductive health services. At the same time, what it means to be healthy—or ill—as well as the meanings ascribed to human bodies have varied across time and social contexts. Accordingly, this interdisciplinary, discussion-based course will examine the gendered history of medicine, health, and embodied experience through a range of scholarly and theoretical perspectives, with particular attention to the ways in which marginalized groups have organized around issues of individual or public health. This course counts toward requirements for the GWS graduate certificate, PhD, and other degrees as appropriate.
GWS 650-001: FEMINIST THEORY
INSTRUCTOR: ARIA HALLIDAY
MEETING TIMES: T 5:00-7:30
An interdisciplinary course addressing issues in contemporary feminist theory (such as intersections of race and gender, the body, ideology and representation, sexuality, etc.)
This course is required for GWS PhD and GWS graduate certificate students.
GWS 700-001: TOPICAL SEMINAR IN GWS: STUDYING THE RIGHT
INSTRUCTOR: CAROL MASON
MEETING TIMES: R 3:30-6:00
Right-wing studies is a bourgeoning transnational endeavor across disciplines inspired by the recent global rise in authoritarian populism. However, analyzing the right has history that graduate students need to know. This class will provide students with: current discussions and definitions of key terms; a historical background to studying the right by focusing on important centers and the archives they’ve created in the United States; and a survey of methodological approaches and the kinds of analyses they produce. Assignments will emphasize understanding arguments and methods rather than producing original research and analysis. Readings are likely to include books by Daniel Martinez Hosang, Joseph Lowndes, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Kathleen Blee, Carlos De La Torre, Pete Simi, Robert Futrell, Matthew Lyon, Chip Berlet, Agnieszka Graff, Luke Mogelson, Larry Rosenthal, Jeff Sharlet, Kathleen Belew, Ramon Gutierrez, Oscar Mazzoleni, Emily Carian, Alex DiBranco, Chelsea Ebin, Judith Butler, Angela Davis.
ADDITIONAL COURSES FOR GWS CREDIT
FR 606-001: LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: WICKED WOMEN: TRANSGRESSION AND MISOGYNY IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH LITERATURE
INSTRUCTOR: JULIE HUMAN
MEETING TIMES: M 3:30-6:00PM
In this course we will think about the construction of female characters in twelfth, thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval courtly texts as transgressive. We will analyze the boundaries they cross, as well as the reactions of their historical and fictional counterparts to these transgressions. We will also examine ways in which these female characters resist societal norms, even within the texts that construct them. Primary texts include the Lais of Marie de France (c. 1170), Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (1204-1228), selections from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (1215-1235), Heldris de Cornuälle's Roman de Silence (second half of the 13th century), and selections from the Roman de Mélusine by Jean d'Arras (1393).