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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: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.204 (01)
FYS: French Identities: Race, Gender, Religion, and Sexual Orientation in Contemporary France
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Roos, Suzanne Lois
Gilman 413
Fall 2023
How should a just society come to terms with persistent inequalities? France, the country of liberty, equality and fraternity, that offered sanctuary from US racism to such figures as James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Miles Davis and legalized same-sex marriages two years before the US did, is now deeply divided. This First-Year Seminar explores the tensions and contradictions between the universalist and color-blind ideals of the French republic and the realities of discrimination in contemporary French society. Topics studied include the status of the concept of race in political discourse; the law forbidding signs of religious belief in the public schools and responses to it; how American initiatives like Black Lives Matter, #metoo and critical gender studies have both sparked French activism and political movements and generated a powerful backlash; and what Americans can learn about how to fight injustice—and how not to—from the French. We will look at a wide variety of texts, including writings by activists, historians, and journalists, along with sociologies of the police and young adult novels, and will listen to popular French music and watch a number of contemporary French films.
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FYS: French Identities: Race, Gender, Religion, and Sexual Orientation in Contemporary France AS.001.204 (01)
How should a just society come to terms with persistent inequalities? France, the country of liberty, equality and fraternity, that offered sanctuary from US racism to such figures as James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Miles Davis and legalized same-sex marriages two years before the US did, is now deeply divided. This First-Year Seminar explores the tensions and contradictions between the universalist and color-blind ideals of the French republic and the realities of discrimination in contemporary French society. Topics studied include the status of the concept of race in political discourse; the law forbidding signs of religious belief in the public schools and responses to it; how American initiatives like Black Lives Matter, #metoo and critical gender studies have both sparked French activism and political movements and generated a powerful backlash; and what Americans can learn about how to fight injustice—and how not to—from the French. We will look at a wide variety of texts, including writings by activists, historians, and journalists, along with sociologies of the police and young adult novels, and will listen to popular French music and watch a number of contemporary French films.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Roos, Suzanne Lois
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.004.241 (04)
Birthing Justice: The African Diaspora
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Wright, Lisa E.
Bloomberg 172
Fall 2023
The maternal health crisis for Black women is a global issue. Many pregnant women of African descent in the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa lack support during and after pregnancy, experience coercion, and aren’t connected to alternative birthing traditions. In this writing-intensive course, we will write to reflect on and respond to novels, memoirs, essays, and scholarly works on historical and contemporary Black women’s birthing experiences throughout the African diaspora. Students will pursue their own research interests to enter an ongoing conversation within the birthing justice movement. Students will build a portfolio that may include writing for social media, community, and/or scholarly audiences. All undergraduates at sophomore level and above are welcome.
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Birthing Justice: The African Diaspora AS.004.241 (04)
The maternal health crisis for Black women is a global issue. Many pregnant women of African descent in the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa lack support during and after pregnancy, experience coercion, and aren’t connected to alternative birthing traditions. In this writing-intensive course, we will write to reflect on and respond to novels, memoirs, essays, and scholarly works on historical and contemporary Black women’s birthing experiences throughout the African diaspora. Students will pursue their own research interests to enter an ongoing conversation within the birthing justice movement. Students will build a portfolio that may include writing for social media, community, and/or scholarly audiences. All undergraduates at sophomore level and above are welcome.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, AGRI-ELECT
AS.004.341 (04)
The Mothers of Gynecology
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Wright, Lisa E.
Bloomberg 172
Fall 2023
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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The Mothers of Gynecology AS.004.341 (04)
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 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.010.290 (01)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction to the History of Chinese Art
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Liu, Yinxing
Gilman 177
Fall 2023
An introduction to Chinese Art, with a focus on the (often absence of) women, through the lens of gender and sexuality.
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction to the History of Chinese Art AS.010.290 (01)
An introduction to Chinese Art, with a focus on the (often absence of) women, through the lens of gender and sexuality.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Liu, Yinxing
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HART-MODERN
AS.100.275 (01)
Passing in American Culture
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Hodson 301
Fall 2023
This course explores passing narratives – stories that feature people who cross race, class, ethnic, or gender boundaries. We will consider what passing narratives can teach us about power and identity, especially as power is presumed to reside in the self and race is presumed to no longer matter.
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Passing in American Culture AS.100.275 (01)
This course explores passing narratives – stories that feature people who cross race, class, ethnic, or gender boundaries. We will consider what passing narratives can teach us about power and identity, especially as power is presumed to reside in the self and race is presumed to no longer matter.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Hodson 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.225.318 (01)
21st Century Female Playwrights
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Denithorne, Margaret
Krieger 103
Fall 2023
This is a writing intensive class exploring the current wealth of women playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winners: Wendy Wasserstein, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019 Prize for FAIRVIEW). We will discuss Script Analysis and read (and see) plays by numerous writers including Claire Barron, Kia Corthron, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, and Hansol Jung. This class will include a mid-term and a Final Paper.
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21st Century Female Playwrights AS.225.318 (01)
This is a writing intensive class exploring the current wealth of women playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winners: Wendy Wasserstein, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019 Prize for FAIRVIEW). We will discuss Script Analysis and read (and see) plays by numerous writers including Claire Barron, Kia Corthron, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, and Hansol Jung. This class will include a mid-term and a Final Paper.
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Denithorne, Margaret
Room: Krieger 103
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.332 (01)
Family, Gender, and Sexuality in East Asia
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Wan, Yifeng
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2023
How do men and women make decisions about marriage and childbearing, negotiate work-family demands, and divide housework and childcare? Why are East Asian societies experiencing lowest-low fertility? What are the legacies of the one-child policy? How does homosexuality transcend patriarchal family? To answer these questions, this course will explore in depth the dynamics of family, gender, and sexuality in contemporary East Asia (mainly China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan).
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Family, Gender, and Sexuality in East Asia AS.230.332 (01)
How do men and women make decisions about marriage and childbearing, negotiate work-family demands, and divide housework and childcare? Why are East Asian societies experiencing lowest-low fertility? What are the legacies of the one-child policy? How does homosexuality transcend patriarchal family? To answer these questions, this course will explore in depth the dynamics of family, gender, and sexuality in contemporary East Asia (mainly China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan).
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Wan, Yifeng
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/18
PosTag(s): INST-CP
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Greif, Meredith
Shaffer 302
Fall 2023
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: Shaffer 302
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.250.351 (01)
Reproductive Physiology
W 3:00PM - 4:45PM
Zirkin, Barry R
Gilman 50
Fall 2023
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: W 3:00PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Zirkin, Barry R
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/100
PosTag(s): BIOL-UL, BEHB-BIOBEH, CHBE-ACBE
AS.280.225 (01)
Population, Health and Development
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Becker, stan
Remsen Hall 101
Fall 2023
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: Remsen Hall 101
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/75
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR
AS.310.327 (01)
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
Fall 2023
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: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Croft Hall G02
Fall 2023
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: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Room: Croft Hall G02
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.253 (01)
Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Han, Clara
Ames 234
Fall 2023
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
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Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies AS.363.253 (01)
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Han, Clara
Room: Ames 234
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/18
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.363.253 (02)
Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Han, Clara
Ames 234
Fall 2023
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
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Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies AS.363.253 (02)
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Han, Clara
Room: Ames 234
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/18
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.363.253 (03)
Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Han, Clara
Ames 234
Fall 2023
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
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Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies AS.363.253 (03)
This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Gertrude Stein was a writer who was disparaged, yet wildly popular; a celebrity as well as an object of scorn; openly yet invisibly queer. Reading selections of Stein’s writing and that of her friends, lovers, and enemies, we will study her networks, art collection, and cultural status, and work extensively with rare books and archival materials, to explore these dilemmas. Student research will be incorporated into a major exhibition at the George Peabody Library in spring 2024.
Gertrude Stein was a writer who was disparaged, yet wildly popular; a celebrity as well as an object of scorn; openly yet invisibly queer. Reading selections of Stein’s writing and that of her friends, lovers, and enemies, we will study her networks, art collection, and cultural status, and work extensively with rare books and archival materials, to explore these dilemmas. Student research will be incorporated into a major exhibition at the George Peabody Library in spring 2024.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Dean, Gabrielle
Room: BLC 2030
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC
AS.389.410 (01)
Public Humanities & Social Justice
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Plaster, Joseph
Bloomberg 274
Fall 2023
Investigates collaborative humanities methods that foster democratic participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy, including participatory action research, collaborative oral history, indigenous research methods, interactive theater, participatory archival practices, and cooperative models for connecting art, artists, and audiences. Course focuses on queer, trans, and Black histories in Baltimore, includes excursions to local cultural institutions, and is co-taught by prominent public humanists, artists, and activists from Baltimore and beyond.
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Public Humanities & Social Justice AS.389.410 (01)
Investigates collaborative humanities methods that foster democratic participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy, including participatory action research, collaborative oral history, indigenous research methods, interactive theater, participatory archival practices, and cooperative models for connecting art, artists, and audiences. Course focuses on queer, trans, and Black histories in Baltimore, includes excursions to local cultural institutions, and is co-taught by prominent public humanists, artists, and activists from Baltimore and beyond.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Plaster, Joseph
Room: Bloomberg 274
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.418 (01)
On Weaving: Feminism, Ecology, Care
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Schopp, Caroline Lillian
Gilman 177
Spring 2024
How might a critical and material art history contribute to contemporary debates in theory? Feminist and queer theories, on the one hand, and ecological thought, on the other, have often turned to metaphors of weaving in their attempt to think antihierarchical forms of relationality. Against models of autonomous selfhood, weaving is evoked to foreground the material fact of our interdependence with human and other forms of life, and to articulate relations that are all too often discounted in western liberal cultures – along with the care work that goes into maintaining them. This seminar lends texture to metaphors of weaving by looking at material practices. We consider how the study of textile and fiber arts informs theoretical concerns, while also attending to the ways in which our reading of theory impacts our appreciation of artistic techniques and practices. The course will include two group excursions on Saturdays to the exhibition “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, sponsored by the Faculty-Student Engagement and Enrichment Fund.
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On Weaving: Feminism, Ecology, Care AS.010.418 (01)
How might a critical and material art history contribute to contemporary debates in theory? Feminist and queer theories, on the one hand, and ecological thought, on the other, have often turned to metaphors of weaving in their attempt to think antihierarchical forms of relationality. Against models of autonomous selfhood, weaving is evoked to foreground the material fact of our interdependence with human and other forms of life, and to articulate relations that are all too often discounted in western liberal cultures – along with the care work that goes into maintaining them. This seminar lends texture to metaphors of weaving by looking at material practices. We consider how the study of textile and fiber arts informs theoretical concerns, while also attending to the ways in which our reading of theory impacts our appreciation of artistic techniques and practices. The course will include two group excursions on Saturdays to the exhibition “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, sponsored by the Faculty-Student Engagement and Enrichment Fund.
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/6
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.061.248 (01)
Women Making Films About Women
T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings, Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Yasinsky, Karen
Gilman 186
Spring 2024
This course will examine films (features and shorts) throughout the history of cinema beginning with Alice Guy-Blaché . We will look at how form reveals content, thematic issues and how films relate to the culture and politics of the filmmaker. Filmmakers include Germaine Dulac, Nelly Kaplan, Marguerite Duras, Chantal Ackerman, Barbara Hammer and Nina Menkes. Readings include critical essays, texts by the filmmakers and fiction. Assignments consist of weekly papers on the films.
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Women Making Films About Women AS.061.248 (01)
This course will examine films (features and shorts) throughout the history of cinema beginning with Alice Guy-Blaché . We will look at how form reveals content, thematic issues and how films relate to the culture and politics of the filmmaker. Filmmakers include Germaine Dulac, Nelly Kaplan, Marguerite Duras, Chantal Ackerman, Barbara Hammer and Nina Menkes. Readings include critical essays, texts by the filmmakers and fiction. Assignments consist of weekly papers on the films.
Days/Times: T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings, Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.100.283 (01)
Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 307
Spring 2024
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 and Unmaking Queer Histories, 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: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.225.318 (01)
21st Century Female Playwrights
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Denithorne, Margaret
Krieger 103
Spring 2024
This is a writing intensive class exploring the current wealth of women playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winners: Wendy Wasserstein, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019 Prize for FAIRVIEW). We will discuss Script Analysis and read (and see) plays by numerous writers including Claire Barron, Kia Corthron, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, and Hansol Jung. This class will include a mid-term and a Final Paper.
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21st Century Female Playwrights AS.225.318 (01)
This is a writing intensive class exploring the current wealth of women playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winners: Wendy Wasserstein, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019 Prize for FAIRVIEW). We will discuss Script Analysis and read (and see) plays by numerous writers including Claire Barron, Kia Corthron, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, and Hansol Jung. This class will include a mid-term and a Final Paper.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Denithorne, Margaret
Room: Krieger 103
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/14
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Greif, Meredith
Krieger 302
Spring 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: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Krieger 302
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.290.330 (01)
Human Sexuality
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Kraft, Chris S
Maryland 309
Spring 2024
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 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Kraft, Chris S
Room: Maryland 309
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 8/30
PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.300.363 (01)
Reading Judith Shakespeare
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Patton, Elizabeth
Gilman 208
Spring 2024
If Shakespeare had a sister who also went to London to be a writer, what would she write? In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf charts a thwarted career for Judith, and this will frame our investigation of the plays, poetry and prose writings by Shakespeare’s contemporary women writers, much of their work unknown to Woolf. They include Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer, Mary Wroth and others. Students will create fictional biographies of Judith Shakespeare, locate these constructed personae in historically accurate contexts, and identify potential support networks able to facilitate “Judith” as she builds a career in her chosen genre. As needed, mapping techniques will come into play.
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Reading Judith Shakespeare AS.300.363 (01)
If Shakespeare had a sister who also went to London to be a writer, what would she write? In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf charts a thwarted career for Judith, and this will frame our investigation of the plays, poetry and prose writings by Shakespeare’s contemporary women writers, much of their work unknown to Woolf. They include Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer, Mary Wroth and others. Students will create fictional biographies of Judith Shakespeare, locate these constructed personae in historically accurate contexts, and identify potential support networks able to facilitate “Judith” as she builds a career in her chosen genre. As needed, mapping techniques will come into play.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.303 (01)
Women and Writing in Modern China
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Jiang, Jin
Gilman 132
Spring 2024
China’s turbulent 20th century was marked by social and political upheavals, wars, and economic hardship. Women writers played an important role in documenting these events. How did women experience and understand their historical context? How were their experiences and interpretations different from (or similar to) those of their male counterparts? This course will search modern China’s mind through women’s writings. Students will read works by women writers of the “long 20th century” (roughly 1890s-2020s) including, but not limited to, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Jie. We will engage in close readings of their literary works in context of their life experiences, considering key themes such as women’s identity and agency, nationalism, revolution, and social reform as well as new and changing gender norms. Basic knowledge of modern Chinese history helpful but not required.
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Women and Writing in Modern China AS.310.303 (01)
China’s turbulent 20th century was marked by social and political upheavals, wars, and economic hardship. Women writers played an important role in documenting these events. How did women experience and understand their historical context? How were their experiences and interpretations different from (or similar to) those of their male counterparts? This course will search modern China’s mind through women’s writings. Students will read works by women writers of the “long 20th century” (roughly 1890s-2020s) including, but not limited to, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Jie. We will engage in close readings of their literary works in context of their life experiences, considering key themes such as women’s identity and agency, nationalism, revolution, and social reform as well as new and changing gender norms. Basic knowledge of modern Chinese history helpful but not required.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.329 (01)
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2024
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: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.363.331 (01)
Gender and Sexuality beyond the Global West: The Politics of Sexual Violence Gender Nation Empire
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Katz, Talia S
Maryland 202
Spring 2024
This course aims to expand and enrich students coordinates for understanding the problem of sexual violence, exploring how sexual violence appears in the weave of everyday life, as foundational to the politics of the nation state, and across the apparatus of the law. We will take a connective and comparative approach in which sexual violence is studied vis-à-vis the feminist postcolonial and transnational critique of gendered belonging to the nation state. In so doing, gender, sexuality, race, and coloniality become analytics that unsettle and complicate the contemporary distinctions of West/East & Global North/South. We will ask questions such as: why are sex and death constitutive to the modern nation state? How is everyday life remade in the shadows of catastrophic violence? How can repair be imagined outside of a medical or juridical vocabulary?
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Gender and Sexuality beyond the Global West: The Politics of Sexual Violence Gender Nation Empire AS.363.331 (01)
This course aims to expand and enrich students coordinates for understanding the problem of sexual violence, exploring how sexual violence appears in the weave of everyday life, as foundational to the politics of the nation state, and across the apparatus of the law. We will take a connective and comparative approach in which sexual violence is studied vis-à-vis the feminist postcolonial and transnational critique of gendered belonging to the nation state. In so doing, gender, sexuality, race, and coloniality become analytics that unsettle and complicate the contemporary distinctions of West/East & Global North/South. We will ask questions such as: why are sex and death constitutive to the modern nation state? How is everyday life remade in the shadows of catastrophic violence? How can repair be imagined outside of a medical or juridical vocabulary?
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Katz, Talia S
Room: Maryland 202
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-CP
AS.363.405 (01)
A Century of Trans Cultural Production
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Spring 2024
This discussion oriented seminar will offer an intensive survey of cultural production by trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, and intersex artists, writers, poets, and musicians. We will examine how this body of work engages with and contests sexological norms around gender and sexuality, relate it to contemporary critical writing by trans theorists. In a moment of greater visibility for trans people, but one characterized by revanchist backlash, how are forms, genres, and aesthetic strategies used to understand the production of gender in relationship to racism, colonialism, and capitalism? How are trans people forming their own networks to aid in the production and distribution of their work? How do we at Johns Hopkins—site of much problematic medical work on gender and sexuality—understand our positioning relative to these currents? Class discussion will be supplemented by conversations with visiting artists, publishers, and editors, and by an associated series of public readings, lectures, and screenings. We may cover work by Claude Cahun, Leslie Feinberg, Jordy Rosenberg, Juliana Huxtable, Tourmaline, Kai Cheng Thom, Kay Gabriel, Cat Fitzpatrick, and Joshua Whitehead, among others.
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A Century of Trans Cultural Production AS.363.405 (01)
This discussion oriented seminar will offer an intensive survey of cultural production by trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, and intersex artists, writers, poets, and musicians. We will examine how this body of work engages with and contests sexological norms around gender and sexuality, relate it to contemporary critical writing by trans theorists. In a moment of greater visibility for trans people, but one characterized by revanchist backlash, how are forms, genres, and aesthetic strategies used to understand the production of gender in relationship to racism, colonialism, and capitalism? How are trans people forming their own networks to aid in the production and distribution of their work? How do we at Johns Hopkins—site of much problematic medical work on gender and sexuality—understand our positioning relative to these currents? Class discussion will be supplemented by conversations with visiting artists, publishers, and editors, and by an associated series of public readings, lectures, and screenings. We may cover work by Claude Cahun, Leslie Feinberg, Jordy Rosenberg, Juliana Huxtable, Tourmaline, Kai Cheng Thom, Kay Gabriel, Cat Fitzpatrick, and Joshua Whitehead, among others.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.389.420 (01)
Curatorial Seminar: European Art
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
Bloomberg 274
Spring 2024
Working in collaboration with staff from the Baltimore Museum of Art, students assess the opportunities and challenges of the European collections; research select objects; contribute to the department's collections development plan; and conceptualize new, more global and more inclusive approaches to the displays.
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Curatorial Seminar: European Art AS.389.420 (01)
Working in collaboration with staff from the Baltimore Museum of Art, students assess the opportunities and challenges of the European collections; research select objects; contribute to the department's collections development plan; and conceptualize new, more global and more inclusive approaches to the displays.
Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara