printer friendly pageFEMST 85SI: Gender and Politics
In 1776, Abigail Adams asked her husband to "remember the ladies" as he drafted the Constitution. Echoing one of the fundamental grievances of the Revolution, she warned: "We will not hold ourselves bound by laws in which we have no voice or representation." However, as we enter the 2012 elections, women remain severely underrepresented in America¿s political institutions with a recent UN Women study ranking the United States as No 78 in the world in terms of women's political representation. With Elections 2012 coming up, this course will explore both theoretical approaches to women's political representation and leadership and current politics relating to gender
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FEMST 105: Honors Work
(Staff)
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Units: 1-15
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Brooks, H. (PI)
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Brown, N. (PI)
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Coll, K. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Brooks, H. (PI)
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Brown, N. (PI)
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Coll, K. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hanlon-Baker, P. (PI)
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Jain, S. (PI)
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Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Lunsford, A. (PI)
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Miner, V. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Murray, A. (PI)
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Robinson, P. (PI)
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Sohn, S. (PI)
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Tallent, E. (PI)
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Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
FEMST 106: Queer Studies Colloquium (FEMST 206)
What is Queer Studies? What kind of work is being done in Queer Studies at Stanford and beyond? Weekly interdisciplinary lectures focus on issues of gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Scholars across programs and departments cover topics such as international queer social movements, queer literary studies, and queer theory and the environment, among others. No prior knowledge of Queer Studies required.
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Units: 1
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Goldin-Perschbacher, S. (PI)
FEMST 108: Internship in Feminist Studies
Supervised field, community, or lab experience in law offices, medical research and labs, social service agencies, legislative and other public offices, or local and national organizations that address issues related to gender and/or sexuality. One unit represents approximately three hours work per week. Required paper. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). FS Majors may not receive 108 credit for their required practicum, as they are to sign up for
FEMST 104 A & B instead. Prerequisites: Course work in Feminist Studies, written proposal and application form submitted for approval by program office, written consent of faculty sponsor. Course may be taken 3 times total, for a max of 15 units.
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Units: 1-5
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hanlon-Baker, P. (PI)
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Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Lunsford, A. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hanlon-Baker, P. (PI)
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Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Lunsford, A. (PI)
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Miner, V. (PI)
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Murray, A. (PI)
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Tallent, E. (PI)
FEMST 129: Critical Issues in International Women's Health (HUMBIO 129)
Women's lives, from childhood through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. Economic, social, and human rights factors, and the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Emphasis is on life or death issues of women's health that depend on their capacity to negotiate or feel empowered, including maternal mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and sex trafficking. Organizations addressing these issues. A requirement of this class is participation in public blogs. Prerequisites: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:ECGender
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Murray, A. (PI)
FEMST 138: Violence Against Women: Theory, Issues, and Prevention (FEMST 238)
Course offers an interdisciplinary feminist perspective on the causes of gender violence, addresses the multi-leveled approaches to ending gender violence, and explores the relationship between violence against women and other forms of oppression: racism, economic exploitation, heterosexism and social class. Framework examines institutional barriers maintaining gender violence in our culture and considers multi-dimensional solutions. Students from every discipline, women and men, apply theoretical perspectives to professional goals and an optional service-learning project. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center)
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:ECGender
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Baran, N. (PI)
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Barta, K. (PI)
FEMST 140E: Black (W)holes: Queering Afro-Futurism
This course will examine the mode of expression, artistic ideology, radical philosophy, political aim and social claim that constitutes what scholars and artists have termed ¿Afro-futurity.¿ We will consider the ways that this project - manifest in black explorations of space, bio-technologies, sci-fantasy, and the complex connections between the past and future - might hearken to or give room for a queer liberationist politic. Looking to critical feminist, queer, and race theory as an interpretive base, we will investigate afro-futurist expressions in film, literature, music, visual art, and other performance, reflecting on questions and themes like: How does the afro-futurist vision imagine new modes of gender, sex/uality, embodiment, and power? How does it radicalize the notion of the individual? What existential anxieties and assurances conjure the afro-futurist vision? What (a)historical traumas, breaches, breaks and cuts trouble notions of humanity, terrestrial belonging, normative realities? How does the power of black speculation (as progressive truth) work to displace these norms and ¿truths¿?
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Caruthers, J. (PI)
FEMST 153: Women and the Creative Imagination (FEMST 253)
Examines the nature of artistic imagination, considering the relationship among muses, mentors and models for women engaged painting, music, theatre, film, creative writing, dance, etc We will study how gender relations and sexual identity have affected women¿s art across various cultures, lands and times. We will critically examine gender roles in music, visual art and literature. Active student participation (in writing, discussion as well as in attendance at performances, exhibits and readings) is the heart of the class.
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum, GER:ECGender
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Miner, V. (PI)
FEMST 188N: Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person
Gender roles, gender relations and sexual identity explored in contemporary literature and conversation with guest authors. Weekly meetings designated for book discussion and meeting with authors. Interest in writing and a curiosity about diverse women's lives would be helpful to students. Students will use such tools as close reading, research, analysis and imagination. Seminar requires strong voice of all participants. Oral presentations, discussion papers, final projects.
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: Writing2, GER:DBHum, GER:ECGender
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Miner, V. (PI)
FEMST 195: Directed Reading
May be repeated for credit. (Staff)
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Units: 1-15
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Baran, N. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hanlon-Baker, P. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Baran, N. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hanlon-Baker, P. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Myers, K. (PI)
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Robinson, P. (PI)
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