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SP.601J / 17.006 / 24.237 / WGS.601J Feminist Political Thought, Spring 2010
(2010-06)
In this course we will examine the development of feminist theory over time. Some subjects we will examine in detail include suffrage and equality; radical feminism; psychoanalysis and feminism; theories of power; sexuality ...
21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
For students with experience in writing nonfictional prose. Advanced study of rhetorical strategies and techniques of prose style. Considerable writing and revision required. In addition to analyzing the work of class ...
11.237 / SP.660 Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course provides an analytic framework for understanding the roles that gender and race play in defining the work worlds of women and men in our society, including ways in which gender intersects with race and class. ...
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and feminist theory to examine our cultural assumptions about gender, trace the effects of new scholarship on traditional ...
21A.218J / SP.454J / WGS.454J Identity and Difference, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
How can the individual be at once cause and consequence of society, a unique agent of social action and also a social product? Why are some people accepted and celebrated for their particular features while other people ...
SP.406 / WMN.406 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. We begin with an investigation of the theoretical ...
17.118J / SP.412J / WGS.412J Feminist Political Thought, Fall 2000
(2000-12)
This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions ...
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2009
(2009-06)
This course is designed as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, an academic area of study focused on the ways that sex and gender manifest themselves in social, cultural, and political ...
21A.225J / SP.621J / WGS.621J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.
SP.406 / WGS.406 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2006
(2006-12)
This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. We begin with an investigation of the theoretical ...