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From the early 20th century, Chinese society underwent a turbulent process of modern transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and democratization challenged previous gender and family norms. Meanwhile, at exactly this time, the Chinese film industry flourished, especially in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. Women and family provided a useful microcosm through which to explore national questions related to revolution, war, and modernity. They also entertained a public eager for new leisure pursuits. Popular feature films not only recorded but also interpreted and helped shape family and gender roles. Using filmic representations as the main material this First-Year Seminar will survey the "family question" (and "the woman question") in 20th century China
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FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film AS.001.174 (01)
From the early 20th century, Chinese society underwent a turbulent process of modern transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and democratization challenged previous gender and family norms. Meanwhile, at exactly this time, the Chinese film industry flourished, especially in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. Women and family provided a useful microcosm through which to explore national questions related to revolution, war, and modernity. They also entertained a public eager for new leisure pursuits. Popular feature films not only recorded but also interpreted and helped shape family and gender roles. Using filmic representations as the main material this First-Year Seminar will survey the "family question" (and "the woman question") in 20th century China
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.004.341 (02)
Special Topics in Writing: The Mothers of Gynecology
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Wright, Lisa E.
Gilman 219
Fall 2024
Deirdre Cooper Owens argues that the experimental and pioneering work performed on enslaved Black women such as Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy, by Dr. James Marion Sims, who is known as the father of gynecology, has been overshadowed in America’s understanding of American gynecology. In this writing intensive course, we will explore the role of Black enslaved women in the formation of the field of American gynecology. We will examine the writing about enslaved Black midwives, nurses, and Black women whose medical practices and bodies were deemed inferior and flawed yet provided foundational knowledge for white practitioners in the mid-1800s. Potential readings include Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deborah Gray Whites’ Ar’nt I a Woman?, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz’s Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Throughout the term, students will conduct their own research and write to combine these conversations with contemporary discussions surrounding Black maternal health, Black midwives, birthing justice, and reproductive justice more broadly. This course will culminate with an academic conference where students will present their research to an audience of their peers. All undergraduates at sophomore level and above are welcome.
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Special Topics in Writing: The Mothers of Gynecology AS.004.341 (02)
Deirdre Cooper Owens argues that the experimental and pioneering work performed on enslaved Black women such as Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy, by Dr. James Marion Sims, who is known as the father of gynecology, has been overshadowed in America’s understanding of American gynecology. In this writing intensive course, we will explore the role of Black enslaved women in the formation of the field of American gynecology. We will examine the writing about enslaved Black midwives, nurses, and Black women whose medical practices and bodies were deemed inferior and flawed yet provided foundational knowledge for white practitioners in the mid-1800s. Potential readings include Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deborah Gray Whites’ Ar’nt I a Woman?, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz’s Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Throughout the term, students will conduct their own research and write to combine these conversations with contemporary discussions surrounding Black maternal health, Black midwives, birthing justice, and reproductive justice more broadly. This course will culminate with an academic conference where students will present their research to an audience of their peers. All undergraduates at sophomore level and above are welcome.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.061.393 (01)
Violent Attractions
M 3:00PM - 5:20PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Bucknell, Lucy
Krieger 180
Fall 2024
Violence, ritualized and anarchic, celebrated and deplored, in popular film from silent era melodrama and slapstick comedy to contemporary sports, crime, and combat films. Two short critical papers and an oral presentation. Interested non-majors and pre-majors may contact the instructor about permission to enroll: [email protected].
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Violent Attractions AS.061.393 (01)
Violence, ritualized and anarchic, celebrated and deplored, in popular film from silent era melodrama and slapstick comedy to contemporary sports, crime, and combat films. Two short critical papers and an oral presentation. Interested non-majors and pre-majors may contact the instructor about permission to enroll: [email protected].
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:20PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room: Krieger 180
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.100.252 (01)
Sex and the American City
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Gill Peterson, Jules
Bloomberg 276
Fall 2024
Why are cities associated with sex and vice? Are cities a natural refuge for LGBT people? This course explores the role of American cities in the history of sexuality, including Baltimore.
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Sex and the American City AS.100.252 (01)
Why are cities associated with sex and vice? Are cities a natural refuge for LGBT people? This course explores the role of American cities in the history of sexuality, including Baltimore.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Gill Peterson, Jules
Room: Bloomberg 276
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US, CES-CC, CES-GI
AS.100.426 (01)
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Maryland 114
Fall 2024
Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe AS.100.426 (01)
Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Maryland 114
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.130.154 (01)
Giving Birth and Coming to Life in Ancient Egypt: The Tree and the Fruit
WF 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Arnette, Marie-Lys
Gilman 130G
Fall 2024
Childbirth is an event that is highly cultural, and is accompanied by gestures and beliefs that say a lot about the society in which they can be observed. This class will be based on Ancient Egyptian texts (translated), images and objects related to beliefs and practices surrounding pregnancy, birth-giving and the first moments of human life. We will discover the Egyptian views on procreation, the objects, the spells and the formulas used to protect pregnancy and childbirth – one of the most dangerous moments in a woman’s life –,
the divine entities invoked, the reactions caused by non-ordinary births (for example, twins), and the purification rites that punctuate the post-partum period. Finally, we will see that the first biological birth is a model on which many beliefs about life after death are based.
Several guest researchers will present birth and childbirth in other ancient societies in order to broaden the discussion and establish comparisons.
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Giving Birth and Coming to Life in Ancient Egypt: The Tree and the Fruit AS.130.154 (01)
Childbirth is an event that is highly cultural, and is accompanied by gestures and beliefs that say a lot about the society in which they can be observed. This class will be based on Ancient Egyptian texts (translated), images and objects related to beliefs and practices surrounding pregnancy, birth-giving and the first moments of human life. We will discover the Egyptian views on procreation, the objects, the spells and the formulas used to protect pregnancy and childbirth – one of the most dangerous moments in a woman’s life –,
the divine entities invoked, the reactions caused by non-ordinary births (for example, twins), and the purification rites that punctuate the post-partum period. Finally, we will see that the first biological birth is a model on which many beliefs about life after death are based.
Several guest researchers will present birth and childbirth in other ancient societies in order to broaden the discussion and establish comparisons.
Days/Times: WF 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
Room: Gilman 130G
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/20
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE
AS.200.325 (01)
Social Attraction and Relationship Development
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Selterman, Dylan Faulkner
Bloomberg 276
Fall 2024
This course will cover theories and research on social attraction, both in the context of romantic and platonic relationships (friendships), at various stages of development including adolescence and later adulthood. This includes a focus on topics such as first impressions, courtship, internet applications, rejection, para-social relationships, and more. We will draw on evolutionary theories, sociocultural and situational forces, personality traits, family/peer influence, and incorporate multidisciplinary research from fields spanning psychology, communication, and sociology. Coursework includes critiques of existing literature, discussions, research proposals, and presentations. Instructor approval is required. Prerequisite: AS 200.133
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Social Attraction and Relationship Development AS.200.325 (01)
This course will cover theories and research on social attraction, both in the context of romantic and platonic relationships (friendships), at various stages of development including adolescence and later adulthood. This includes a focus on topics such as first impressions, courtship, internet applications, rejection, para-social relationships, and more. We will draw on evolutionary theories, sociocultural and situational forces, personality traits, family/peer influence, and incorporate multidisciplinary research from fields spanning psychology, communication, and sociology. Coursework includes critiques of existing literature, discussions, research proposals, and presentations. Instructor approval is required. Prerequisite: AS 200.133
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Selterman, Dylan Faulkner
Room: Bloomberg 276
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): PSYC-SEM
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Greif, Meredith
Krieger 302
Fall 2024
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
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Housing and Homelessness in the United States AS.230.370 (01)
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Krieger 302
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-LE
AS.250.351 (01)
Reproductive Physiology
T 3:00PM - 4:40PM
Zirkin, Barry R
Olin 305
Fall 2024
Focuses on reproductive physiology and biochemical and molecular regulation of the female and male reproductive tracts. Topics include the hypothalamus and pituitary, peptide and steroid hormone action, epididymis and male accessory sex organs, female reproductive tract, menstrual cycle, ovulation and gamete transport, fertilization and fertility enhancement, sexually transmitted diseases, and male and female contraceptive methods. Introductory lectures on each topic followed by research-oriented lectures and readings from current literature.
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Reproductive Physiology AS.250.351 (01)
Focuses on reproductive physiology and biochemical and molecular regulation of the female and male reproductive tracts. Topics include the hypothalamus and pituitary, peptide and steroid hormone action, epididymis and male accessory sex organs, female reproductive tract, menstrual cycle, ovulation and gamete transport, fertilization and fertility enhancement, sexually transmitted diseases, and male and female contraceptive methods. Introductory lectures on each topic followed by research-oriented lectures and readings from current literature.
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 4:40PM
Instructor: Zirkin, Barry R
Room: Olin 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/110
PosTag(s): BIOL-UL, BEHB-BIOBEH, CHBE-ACBE
AS.280.225 (01)
Population, Health and Development
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Becker, stan
Gilman 50
Fall 2024
This course will cover the major world population changes in the past century as well as the contemporary situation and projections for this century. Topics include rapid population growth, the historical and continuing decline of death and birth rates, contraceptive methods as well as family planning and child survival programs, population aging, urbanization, population and the environment and the demographic effects of HIV/AIDS and Covid.
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Population, Health and Development AS.280.225 (01)
This course will cover the major world population changes in the past century as well as the contemporary situation and projections for this century. Topics include rapid population growth, the historical and continuing decline of death and birth rates, contraceptive methods as well as family planning and child survival programs, population aging, urbanization, population and the environment and the demographic effects of HIV/AIDS and Covid.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Becker, stan
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Open
Seats Available: 38/75
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, CES-PD
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Bloomberg 168
Fall 2024
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
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Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (01)
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Bloomberg 168
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/35
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.363.333 (01)
Poetics and Politics of Sex: The Queer/Trans Underground ?
Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Amin, Kadji
Krieger 307
Fall 2024
What does it mean that until relatively recently, the center of queer/trans culture was the underground – a metaphorical space of illegality – and what are the political possibilities of such illegality? This seminar will consider how Black/trans fugitivity and interracial sex, trans identity theft and forgery, black market hormones and silicone injections, sex work, and mood-altering drugs defined same-sex desiring and gender-variant cultures during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far from being a lawless place, we will analyze how life in the underground, including stints in prison, concretely shaped gender and sexual possibilities, subcultural codes of conduct, and practices of community-making.
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Poetics and Politics of Sex: The Queer/Trans Underground ? AS.363.333 (01)
What does it mean that until relatively recently, the center of queer/trans culture was the underground – a metaphorical space of illegality – and what are the political possibilities of such illegality? This seminar will consider how Black/trans fugitivity and interracial sex, trans identity theft and forgery, black market hormones and silicone injections, sex work, and mood-altering drugs defined same-sex desiring and gender-variant cultures during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far from being a lawless place, we will analyze how life in the underground, including stints in prison, concretely shaped gender and sexual possibilities, subcultural codes of conduct, and practices of community-making.
Days/Times: Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Amin, Kadji
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.334 (01)
Feminism and Apocalypse
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Franchi, Sophia A
Krieger 307
Fall 2024
Popular culture today is awash with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories. Feminist literature, though, has been thinking about the end of the world since 1826, when Mary Shelley’s The Last Man imagined a pandemic wiping out almost the entire global population. The first apocalyptic novel in English describes the end of the world as we know it: in the wake of disaster, The Last Man pauses to assemble alternative forms of collective life. Students in this course will read contemporary feminist fiction that responds to The Last Man by pressing the genre of apocalyptic literature into dialogue with feminist politics. We will explore key generic preoccupations that are also foci of feminist thought: reproduction and the family; separatism and utopia; gender and the environment; the human and the posthuman. Across our readings, our focus will be the duality of apocalyptic literature as both critique of the existing order and as thought experiment with what might replace it. What is the role of apocalypse in the feminist imagination? How have feminist authors made use of a genre also historically characterized by fantasies of racialized violence and class conflict, orientalist projection, and sexist stereotype? Why—and why not—might it be valuable to feminism to imagine the end of things?
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Feminism and Apocalypse AS.363.334 (01)
Popular culture today is awash with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories. Feminist literature, though, has been thinking about the end of the world since 1826, when Mary Shelley’s The Last Man imagined a pandemic wiping out almost the entire global population. The first apocalyptic novel in English describes the end of the world as we know it: in the wake of disaster, The Last Man pauses to assemble alternative forms of collective life. Students in this course will read contemporary feminist fiction that responds to The Last Man by pressing the genre of apocalyptic literature into dialogue with feminist politics. We will explore key generic preoccupations that are also foci of feminist thought: reproduction and the family; separatism and utopia; gender and the environment; the human and the posthuman. Across our readings, our focus will be the duality of apocalyptic literature as both critique of the existing order and as thought experiment with what might replace it. What is the role of apocalypse in the feminist imagination? How have feminist authors made use of a genre also historically characterized by fantasies of racialized violence and class conflict, orientalist projection, and sexist stereotype? Why—and why not—might it be valuable to feminism to imagine the end of things?
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Franchi, Sophia A
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/18
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.010.291 (01)
The Art of Ancient Greek Medicine
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Stager, Jennifer
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
This course analyzes the role of artists and the visual arts in shaping ancient Greek medicine and the afterlife of these ideas. Grounded in the visual arts, we will explore class, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they intersect with developments in ancient medicine and later interpretations of this history. Includes excursions to local museums.
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The Art of Ancient Greek Medicine AS.010.291 (01)
This course analyzes the role of artists and the visual arts in shaping ancient Greek medicine and the afterlife of these ideas. Grounded in the visual arts, we will explore class, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they intersect with developments in ancient medicine and later interpretations of this history. Includes excursions to local museums.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.377 (01)
Modern Palestinian Art & Its Contexts
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Amin, Alessandra
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
Modern Palestinian art took shape in the bourgeois salons of nineteenth-century Cairo, the Ottoman-era workshops of Jerusalem’s icon painters, the militant presses of revolutionary Beirut, and the sewing circles of Amman’s refugee camps. It emerged from the state-sponsored art schools of the Communist Bloc, in conversation with the Black Panther Party, through crowds of curious exhibition-goers in Tokyo and Oslo and Tehran and, of course, in defiance of the ongoing Israeli occupation. This class introduces students to art made in and around Palestine between 1880 and today, focusing on its engagement with the myriad worlds in which it has always participated. How can visual culture mediate relationships to local heritage across space and time, or negotiate nationalism in the absence of a nation? What tensions arise around the circulation of artwork inexorably linked to a liberation struggle? How have artists navigated questions of the “postcolonial” as the subjects of a contemporary colonial regime? This class will explore modern Palestinian visual art from a transnational perspective, paying particular attention to the roles of women and gender in its creation, content, and display.
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Modern Palestinian Art & Its Contexts AS.010.377 (01)
Modern Palestinian art took shape in the bourgeois salons of nineteenth-century Cairo, the Ottoman-era workshops of Jerusalem’s icon painters, the militant presses of revolutionary Beirut, and the sewing circles of Amman’s refugee camps. It emerged from the state-sponsored art schools of the Communist Bloc, in conversation with the Black Panther Party, through crowds of curious exhibition-goers in Tokyo and Oslo and Tehran and, of course, in defiance of the ongoing Israeli occupation. This class introduces students to art made in and around Palestine between 1880 and today, focusing on its engagement with the myriad worlds in which it has always participated. How can visual culture mediate relationships to local heritage across space and time, or negotiate nationalism in the absence of a nation? What tensions arise around the circulation of artwork inexorably linked to a liberation struggle? How have artists navigated questions of the “postcolonial” as the subjects of a contemporary colonial regime? This class will explore modern Palestinian visual art from a transnational perspective, paying particular attention to the roles of women and gender in its creation, content, and display.
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Amin, Alessandra
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.040.321 (01)
Women in Greek Drama: Feminist Perspectives from Text to Stage
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Gerolemou, Maria
Gilman 132
Spring 2025
This course explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek drama through the lenses of feminist theory, gender studies, and the intersection of performance and gender. By analyzing key passages from significant texts and contextualizing them within their social, cultural, and theoretical frameworks, students will examine how ancient narratives about women continue to resonate with contemporary gender issues. The course will culminate in the creation of a theatrical piece—a compilation of women's monologues from ancient Greek drama—allowing students to design, adapt, and perform their interpretations in a final performance.
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Women in Greek Drama: Feminist Perspectives from Text to Stage AS.040.321 (01)
This course explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek drama through the lenses of feminist theory, gender studies, and the intersection of performance and gender. By analyzing key passages from significant texts and contextualizing them within their social, cultural, and theoretical frameworks, students will examine how ancient narratives about women continue to resonate with contemporary gender issues. The course will culminate in the creation of a theatrical piece—a compilation of women's monologues from ancient Greek drama—allowing students to design, adapt, and perform their interpretations in a final performance.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.388 (01)
Old World/New World Women
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Achinstein, Sharon
Gilman 277
Spring 2025
The course considers the transatlantic writing of three women in the early modern period, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, and Phillis Wheatley. We will consider issues of identity, spatiality, religion, commerce, enforced labor, sexuality, race, and gender, along with literary tradition, formal analysis and poetics. We will read a good deal of these early women writers. Foremost in our mind will be the question of how perceptions of space and time are mediated through the global experiences of early modernity.
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Old World/New World Women AS.060.388 (01)
The course considers the transatlantic writing of three women in the early modern period, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, and Phillis Wheatley. We will consider issues of identity, spatiality, religion, commerce, enforced labor, sexuality, race, and gender, along with literary tradition, formal analysis and poetics. We will read a good deal of these early women writers. Foremost in our mind will be the question of how perceptions of space and time are mediated through the global experiences of early modernity.
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room: Gilman 277
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.061.391 (01)
Love and Film
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ward, Meredith C
Bloomberg 172
Spring 2025
In this course, we explore different understandings of "love" and the way that film has dealt with the concept as a medium. We explore a variety of approaches to the question of "love" - from the agapic to the familial to the romantic - through a series of interdisciplinary readings ranging from philosophy to anthropology. We will also equally explore the question of how film has engaged with the question of love as a concept, and what depictions of human affection - from the general to the personal - it has offered us. Screenings are required for this course.
Lab fee: $50
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Love and Film AS.061.391 (01)
In this course, we explore different understandings of "love" and the way that film has dealt with the concept as a medium. We explore a variety of approaches to the question of "love" - from the agapic to the familial to the romantic - through a series of interdisciplinary readings ranging from philosophy to anthropology. We will also equally explore the question of how film has engaged with the question of love as a concept, and what depictions of human affection - from the general to the personal - it has offered us. Screenings are required for this course.
Lab fee: $50
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.100.220 (01)
"Bad Feminism": Exclusion and Essentialism
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Klassen, Magdalene Ruth
Gilman 400
Spring 2025
This course introduces students to major debates and controversies within the feminist movement in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1850 to the present. From colonial and eugenic women’s movements to anti-trans and carceral feminism, the contents and assessments of this course ask you to consider a pressing question in contemporary feminism: how do we reckon with the reality that many feminists have excluded and continue to exclude people from the liberatory futures they imagine? Together we will analyze the value and limits of historical context and evaluate the relationship between past and present controversies within the feminist movement. Employing critical feminist concepts such as intersectionality and positionality, we will consider what it means for people (including ourselves) to be “products of their time.” By doing historical research in newspaper databases, we will evaluate how feminist claims about “sisterhood” have changed over time.
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"Bad Feminism": Exclusion and Essentialism AS.100.220 (01)
This course introduces students to major debates and controversies within the feminist movement in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1850 to the present. From colonial and eugenic women’s movements to anti-trans and carceral feminism, the contents and assessments of this course ask you to consider a pressing question in contemporary feminism: how do we reckon with the reality that many feminists have excluded and continue to exclude people from the liberatory futures they imagine? Together we will analyze the value and limits of historical context and evaluate the relationship between past and present controversies within the feminist movement. Employing critical feminist concepts such as intersectionality and positionality, we will consider what it means for people (including ourselves) to be “products of their time.” By doing historical research in newspaper databases, we will evaluate how feminist claims about “sisterhood” have changed over time.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Klassen, Magdalene Ruth
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.283 (01)
Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 55
Spring 2025
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
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Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present AS.100.283 (01)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.283 (02)
Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 55
Spring 2025
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
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Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present AS.100.283 (02)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.145.322 (01)
Bodies in Flux: Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Bayoumi, Soha Hassan
Spring 2025
This course examines how bodies, genders, and sexualities in the modern Middle East, from the nineteenth century to the present, have been shaped and represented via changing and competing discourses. Through a variety of historical, ethnographic, sociological, media, and literary readings, the course investigates dynamic representations of bodies in flux: colonized bodies, medicalized bodies, gendered bodies, sexualized bodies, (re)productive bodies, aging bodies, and bodies in revolt. The course pays special attention to science, technology, and medicine in their interaction with cultures, laws, and religious practices. Some of the topics covered include analyzing histories of and discourses on gender, sexuality, health and disease, reproduction, genital cutting, and gender-based violence.
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Bodies in Flux: Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East AS.145.322 (01)
This course examines how bodies, genders, and sexualities in the modern Middle East, from the nineteenth century to the present, have been shaped and represented via changing and competing discourses. Through a variety of historical, ethnographic, sociological, media, and literary readings, the course investigates dynamic representations of bodies in flux: colonized bodies, medicalized bodies, gendered bodies, sexualized bodies, (re)productive bodies, aging bodies, and bodies in revolt. The course pays special attention to science, technology, and medicine in their interaction with cultures, laws, and religious practices. Some of the topics covered include analyzing histories of and discourses on gender, sexuality, health and disease, reproduction, genital cutting, and gender-based violence.
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Bayoumi, Soha Hassan
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/16
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.211.379 (01)
Body Modifications: Post-body, Gender Anarchy, Virtual Cosmesis
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Wegenstein, Bernadette
Gilman 17
Spring 2025
This course looks at the phenomenon of body modification from the digital turn of the 1990s through contemporary queer and feminist post-body practices to body performances and transformations spanning the past 30 years. Our viewpoint will include questions around the contemporary aesthetics of “face and interface,” the flamboyant body in the current trans movement, as well as a more critical view of body modification raised by technological change such as AI generated influencers and more generally the status quo of the body’s “cosmesis,” or arrangement and adornment, in the era of social media and post-truth. We will be working with both primary sources from musicians and performers such as Arca to the trans ballroom phenomenon in Rio de Janeiro, as well as with secondary sources including the critical works by queer and intersectional theorists and feminist authors. Students will attend and participate in the classroom and will be writing a midterm and a final paper of their choice on the subject matter.
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Body Modifications: Post-body, Gender Anarchy, Virtual Cosmesis AS.211.379 (01)
This course looks at the phenomenon of body modification from the digital turn of the 1990s through contemporary queer and feminist post-body practices to body performances and transformations spanning the past 30 years. Our viewpoint will include questions around the contemporary aesthetics of “face and interface,” the flamboyant body in the current trans movement, as well as a more critical view of body modification raised by technological change such as AI generated influencers and more generally the status quo of the body’s “cosmesis,” or arrangement and adornment, in the era of social media and post-truth. We will be working with both primary sources from musicians and performers such as Arca to the trans ballroom phenomenon in Rio de Janeiro, as well as with secondary sources including the critical works by queer and intersectional theorists and feminist authors. Students will attend and participate in the classroom and will be writing a midterm and a final paper of their choice on the subject matter.
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Wegenstein, Bernadette
Room: Gilman 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 27/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.212.405 (01)
Women's Life Writing in French
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Russo, Elena
Gilman 217
Spring 2025
This course explores various strategies devised by contemporary women writers across the Francophone world (France, Sénégal, Algeria) for telling their stories of plural identities, displacement, rebellion, and self-emancipation. Challenging the illusions of effortless métissages, these stories confront bluntly and directly the conflicts that lie at the heart of the most familial, intimate relationships with mothers, lovers, kins. Works by Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Maryse Condé, Marie Cardinal, Leila Sebbar, Annie Ernaux, Christine Angot, Ken Bugul.
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Women's Life Writing in French AS.212.405 (01)
This course explores various strategies devised by contemporary women writers across the Francophone world (France, Sénégal, Algeria) for telling their stories of plural identities, displacement, rebellion, and self-emancipation. Challenging the illusions of effortless métissages, these stories confront bluntly and directly the conflicts that lie at the heart of the most familial, intimate relationships with mothers, lovers, kins. Works by Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Maryse Condé, Marie Cardinal, Leila Sebbar, Annie Ernaux, Christine Angot, Ken Bugul.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Russo, Elena
Room: Gilman 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.214.330 (01)
Reinterpreting Myths, Reinterpreting Women
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Staff
Krieger 307
Spring 2025
This course aims to reflect on the most iconic myths of classical antiquity, to be re–read through the contribution of psychoanalytic theories. In class, we will analyze the ten proposed women mythological figures, to be divided according to three major categories of wicked wives and mothers, abandoned women, and nonhuman female monsters, in their evolutions through the centuries, in order to note and investigate their new meanings and interpretations.
How, for example, can the maternal figure of Medea still be considered relevant today? What meaning does she carry, and in what ways has she been reinterpreted and rewritten by literature, art, and other humanistic fields? Likewise, what is the source of the fascination still associated with the tragic figures of Ariadne and Dido, or the terror caused by monstrous beings such as the Mermaids and Medusa? How has popular culture re–appropriated them, modernizing them, and making them iconic in fantasy films like Harry Potter, in famous TV series like Game of Thrones, in horror movies, or in Disney’s animated films? Students will be able to answer these questions during the course, focusing each week on a specific myth drawn from classical Greek and Latin literature and following it through its literary and artistic developments, especially in the context of Western culture.
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Reinterpreting Myths, Reinterpreting Women AS.214.330 (01)
This course aims to reflect on the most iconic myths of classical antiquity, to be re–read through the contribution of psychoanalytic theories. In class, we will analyze the ten proposed women mythological figures, to be divided according to three major categories of wicked wives and mothers, abandoned women, and nonhuman female monsters, in their evolutions through the centuries, in order to note and investigate their new meanings and interpretations.
How, for example, can the maternal figure of Medea still be considered relevant today? What meaning does she carry, and in what ways has she been reinterpreted and rewritten by literature, art, and other humanistic fields? Likewise, what is the source of the fascination still associated with the tragic figures of Ariadne and Dido, or the terror caused by monstrous beings such as the Mermaids and Medusa? How has popular culture re–appropriated them, modernizing them, and making them iconic in fantasy films like Harry Potter, in famous TV series like Game of Thrones, in horror movies, or in Disney’s animated films? Students will be able to answer these questions during the course, focusing each week on a specific myth drawn from classical Greek and Latin literature and following it through its literary and artistic developments, especially in the context of Western culture.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Greif, Meredith
Gilman 400
Spring 2025
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
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Housing and Homelessness in the United States AS.230.370 (01)
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): CES-CC, CES-LE, INST-AP
AS.290.330 (01)
Human Sexuality
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kraft, Chris S
Bloomberg 176
Spring 2025
Course focuses on sexual development, sexuality across the lifespan, gender identity, sexual attraction and arousal, sexually transmitted disease, and the history of commercial sex workers and pornography. Please note that the use of electronic devices is not permitted during this class, in order to promote the full interactive potential of this engaging seminar-style offering. Open to Juniors & Seniors within the following majors/minors: Behavioral Biology; Biology; Cognitive Science; Medicine, Science & the Humanities; Molecular & Cellular Bio; Neuroscience; Psychological & Brain Sciences; Public Health; Sociology; Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.
Students may receive credit for either AS.290.330 or AS.290.420, but not both.
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Human Sexuality AS.290.330 (01)
Course focuses on sexual development, sexuality across the lifespan, gender identity, sexual attraction and arousal, sexually transmitted disease, and the history of commercial sex workers and pornography. Please note that the use of electronic devices is not permitted during this class, in order to promote the full interactive potential of this engaging seminar-style offering. Open to Juniors & Seniors within the following majors/minors: Behavioral Biology; Biology; Cognitive Science; Medicine, Science & the Humanities; Molecular & Cellular Bio; Neuroscience; Psychological & Brain Sciences; Public Health; Sociology; Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.
Students may receive credit for either AS.290.330 or AS.290.420, but not both.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kraft, Chris S
Room: Bloomberg 176
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/30
PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.310.327 (01)
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2025
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
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Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo AS.310.327 (01)
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.310.329 (01)
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2025
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
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Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan AS.310.329 (01)
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.360.406 (01)
Experiential Research Lab: Transnational Birthing Justice - Ghana
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Wright, Lisa E.
Spring 2025
Transnational Birthing Justice - Ghana I is a place-based writing-intensive Experiential Research Lab. Students will write to reflect on and respond to literary fiction, nonfiction writing, and scholarly articles on historical and contemporary Black women’s birthing experiences throughout the African diaspora, particularly in West Africa. Students will research the intersections between Ghana’s colonial history, culture, environment, local government, education system, policies, and maternal and reproductive health. To prepare to travel to Ghana students will curate public-facing writing to amplify Ghana’s maternal and reproductive health challenges. While in Ghana students will partner with international-based public health agencies, The University of Ghana School of Public Health, and Accra-based partners, to utilize their writing, research, and public health skills to develop a framework to address maternal health challenges in Ghana. Students will engage with Ghanaian practitioners focusing on community health to participate in a Hopkins-sponsored community health screening and maternal health kit giveaway to support local individuals. Students will visit three cities, Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, and sites like Kakum Rain Forest, and Elmina Slave Dungeon. Students will build a portfolio of writing that will include writing for themselves, social media, community, and scholarly audiences. This class will be co-taught with Tanay Lynn Harris, the co-founder and director of Bloom Collective. By permission only. Application required; email [email protected]. Commitment to AS.360.407 in Summer 2025 required.
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Experiential Research Lab: Transnational Birthing Justice - Ghana AS.360.406 (01)
Transnational Birthing Justice - Ghana I is a place-based writing-intensive Experiential Research Lab. Students will write to reflect on and respond to literary fiction, nonfiction writing, and scholarly articles on historical and contemporary Black women’s birthing experiences throughout the African diaspora, particularly in West Africa. Students will research the intersections between Ghana’s colonial history, culture, environment, local government, education system, policies, and maternal and reproductive health. To prepare to travel to Ghana students will curate public-facing writing to amplify Ghana’s maternal and reproductive health challenges. While in Ghana students will partner with international-based public health agencies, The University of Ghana School of Public Health, and Accra-based partners, to utilize their writing, research, and public health skills to develop a framework to address maternal health challenges in Ghana. Students will engage with Ghanaian practitioners focusing on community health to participate in a Hopkins-sponsored community health screening and maternal health kit giveaway to support local individuals. Students will visit three cities, Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, and sites like Kakum Rain Forest, and Elmina Slave Dungeon. Students will build a portfolio of writing that will include writing for themselves, social media, community, and scholarly audiences. This class will be co-taught with Tanay Lynn Harris, the co-founder and director of Bloom Collective. By permission only. Application required; email [email protected]. Commitment to AS.360.407 in Summer 2025 required.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.363.254 (01)
Trans Studies
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Amin, Kadji
Greenhouse 113
Spring 2025
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to key issues in Trans Studies. Topics may include: contemporary trans politics, trans medicalization, indigenous and non-Western forms of gender variance, US trans history across class and race, and trans global governance. We will focus on how institutions, such as policing and medicine, and world-historical forces, such as capitalism, colonialism, and Atlantic slavery, have shaped trans history and politics.
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Trans Studies AS.363.254 (01)
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to key issues in Trans Studies. Topics may include: contemporary trans politics, trans medicalization, indigenous and non-Western forms of gender variance, US trans history across class and race, and trans global governance. We will focus on how institutions, such as policing and medicine, and world-historical forces, such as capitalism, colonialism, and Atlantic slavery, have shaped trans history and politics.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Amin, Kadji
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.336 (01)
Sexual Politics of the Cold War: An Inter-Asia Approach
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kim, Sojung
Gilman 313
Spring 2025
Has the Cold War truly ended? What does it mean to end a war? This course invites you to critically examine the Cold War through the lenses of sexuality and inter-Asia. While the general consensus is that the Cold War has concluded, this notion of an absolute “end” has continuously faced challenges in new Cold War studies, particularly posed by scholars across regions and areas within “Asia.” What are the imperatives of these challenges? Simultaneously, growing feminist scholarship on sexual politics reveals the ways in which sexuality serves as a pivotal arena in the construction and transformation of Cold War politics, shaping our ordinary lives. How are possibilities for intimacy and alternative futures woven under seemingly endless conditions of war? Situated at the intersection of sexual politics and inter-Asia methods, drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary texts, literature, and visual materials, we explore postcolonial, feminist, and queer discussions surrounding the changing nature of Cold War politics. These discussions engage critically and expand upon the traditionally Western-centric understanding of war, peace, and Asia.
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Sexual Politics of the Cold War: An Inter-Asia Approach AS.363.336 (01)
Has the Cold War truly ended? What does it mean to end a war? This course invites you to critically examine the Cold War through the lenses of sexuality and inter-Asia. While the general consensus is that the Cold War has concluded, this notion of an absolute “end” has continuously faced challenges in new Cold War studies, particularly posed by scholars across regions and areas within “Asia.” What are the imperatives of these challenges? Simultaneously, growing feminist scholarship on sexual politics reveals the ways in which sexuality serves as a pivotal arena in the construction and transformation of Cold War politics, shaping our ordinary lives. How are possibilities for intimacy and alternative futures woven under seemingly endless conditions of war? Situated at the intersection of sexual politics and inter-Asia methods, drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary texts, literature, and visual materials, we explore postcolonial, feminist, and queer discussions surrounding the changing nature of Cold War politics. These discussions engage critically and expand upon the traditionally Western-centric understanding of war, peace, and Asia.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kim, Sojung
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.363.406 (01)
Feminist and Queer Theory: Marxism
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Amin, Kadji
Greenhouse 113
Spring 2025
Famously, Karl Marx had little to say about gender, sexuality, or race. Yet, scholars have developed Marxist theory to account for how a capitalist political economy generates racial divisions, gender inequalities, and queer and trans subcultures. This course will introduce students to feminist, queer, trans, and Black Marxist theory. Key concepts will include: social reproduction, racial capitalism, and sexual hegemony. Students will consider how Marxist theorists envision the place of race, gender, family, and sexuality in a utopian post-capitalist future.
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Feminist and Queer Theory: Marxism AS.363.406 (01)
Famously, Karl Marx had little to say about gender, sexuality, or race. Yet, scholars have developed Marxist theory to account for how a capitalist political economy generates racial divisions, gender inequalities, and queer and trans subcultures. This course will introduce students to feminist, queer, trans, and Black Marxist theory. Key concepts will include: social reproduction, racial capitalism, and sexual hegemony. Students will consider how Marxist theorists envision the place of race, gender, family, and sexuality in a utopian post-capitalist future.