Whats Happening

Announcing the new M.A. in Gender, Race and Identity beginning Fall 2008

Applications accepted beginning in Spring 2008.

For information about the Gender, Race and Identity M.A. contact the Women's Studies Program at: 775/784-1560.

Spring 2008

WMST 250.001

Introduction to Feminist Theory

Instructor: Rosemary Dixon

Call #45996

Mondays - 1:00 – 3:45

MSS 216

This course will help us theorize

about the ways women and men experience identity. Through a feminist lens we will explore various “taken for granted” and intersecting forms of hierarchy both historic and current, in the US and around the world.

For more information contact: Rosemary Dixon or Consuelo Archambeau - 784-1560

A World of Women and Men:

Gender Across Cultures

Crosslisted Course: Anthropology 439/639-002 and Women's Studies 490-002

Spring 2008

Around the world and in different cultures, gender categories and gender relations take on particular forms. This course will look at gender in diverse cultural settings, how race/ethnicity and class crosscut and shape gender, and how gender is transforming in a world characterized by globalization and transnational movement. We will study women and men in a variety of cultural contexts through a range of topics, including sexuality, labor, family, reproduction, the body, and self. Throughout the class, we will acknowledge the multiple ways individuals and institutions perform and structure gender across cultures, while organizing discussion around common themes and patterns.

Instructor: Deborah A. Boehm

Wednesday 1:00 – 3:45 pm

Room: LP 105

Call Numbers: ANTH 439 (71755)

ANTH 639 (68631)

WMST 490 (45237)

Gender, Literature, and the Arts

The Gendered Global St/age: Performing Gender in a Transnational World

Women's Studies 430-001

Spring 2008

We live in a world of motion: from the global to the local, culture is increasingly defined by the movement of people, ideas, and resources. This course will focus on such movement in relation to gender, examining the topic through contemporary film and fiction. We will consider migration broadly as the movement of people from one locale to another, including (im)migration, political exile, displacement, diaspora, and forms of global movement not typically seen as “migration,” such as colonization and tourism. Each class session will focus on a film and selected readings as a way to study a range of topics—nation, identity, language, race, and sexuality—in the gendered global age.

Instructor: Deborah A. Boehm

Call Number: 48355

Tuesday 1:00 – 3:45 p.m.

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