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V3111 Feminist Texts I: Wollstonecraft to Beauvoir.
L. Ciolkowski
Call#43496
TBA, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. The important contributions to the elaboration of feminist thought in the West, evaluated through critical discussion. Analysis of works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, Anna Cooper, Radclyffe Hall, C. P. Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, and others in an attempt to discover the roots of the contemporary feminist movement. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
V3521 Senior Seminar.
E. Povinelli
Call#46696
T 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Seminar for the preparation of the senior thesis for Columbia Women’s and Gender Studies majors. Individual research in women’s and gender Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor.
W4300 Advanced Topics in Women's & Gender Studies: Slavery, Pornography and the Age of Contract.
S. Hartman
Section 002
Call#52503
M 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. This course examines the entanglements of bondage and liberty in the liberal
imagination of freedom. Through a reading of slave narratives, eighteenth and nineteenth-century pornography, gothic novels, and political philosophy, the course explores the role of the whip and the contract in narrating the history of freedom, producing gendered and raced bodies, fashioning the self-possessed individual and the virtuous man, and inciting pleasure and empathy. The class will consider the pornography of pain (graphic representations of scenes of violence which were intended to arouse sympathy and to titillate), in anti-slavery and plantation literature, the role of the contract in extending and transforming subjection rather than heralding freedom, and the ease with which owning gives way to being owned and consent yields to violation when property is made the foundation of freedom.
W4320 Thinking Sexualities: Queer Theories & Histories.
J. Jakobsen
Section 001
Call# 07137
W 4:10-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4 pt. The course will cover a range of (mostly U.S. and mostly 20th-Century) materials that thematize gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender experience and identity. We will study fiction and autobiographical texts, historical, psychoanalytic, and sociological materials, queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. We will also investigate connections between the history of LGBT activism and current events. Authors will include Foucault, Freud, Butler, Sedgwick, Anzaldua, Moraga, Smith. Students will present, and then write up, research projects of their own choosing. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
G6001 Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Thought: Bodies, Object, Sex: Gender and Consumer Culture in the Modern World.
E. Lean
Call#53046
T 11am-12:50pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
3pts. This graduate seminar examines the relationship between gender and consumer culture in the modern world. Themes to be covered include the relationship between mass culture and modernity, consumption as a form of citizenship, the meanings of material culture, the rise of the modern commodity, class, gender and consumerism, and the global effects of capitalism. Students will read both theoretical literature and specific histories or cast studies drawn from all parts of the world. Emphasis is on reading and discussion.
G8001 Graduate Student and Faculty Colloquium: Feminist Pedagogy.
S. Marcus
Section 001
Call#62797
F 10am-1pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
1 pt. This one-credit course will meet three times during the semester in order to discuss theories and practices of feminist pedagogy. The first meeting will involve readings of theoretical texts. The second meeting will address actual classroom experience and draw on a mix of theory and practice. The third meeting will be a workshop: each of us will devise a syllabus and a few assignments for a gender studies course in our discipline, then discuss them as a group. The course will be tailored to suit the interests of those who enroll, so please email Professor Sharon Marcus and tell her about your interests and what you want to bring to and get out of the course.
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