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2024-2025 College Catalog
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GWS 100 - Introduction to Feminist Studies 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods Interdisciplinary survey and analysis of women’s issues in structured inequalities and globalization. Includes feminist studies: study of gender, culture, and society; theoretical approaches to gender; learning gender socialization; contemporary feminist issues: socialization, work, and family; body and health issues; gender issues and intimacy; gender and the economy; gender, politics, government, and the military; gender, education, creativity, and language; and gender and spirituality.
Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC – SBS or HUM and C,G; Meets CTE - SBS or A&H and C, G
Course Learning Outcomes
- Explain the history of and current status of the feminist movement in the United States and globally. Describe the emergence of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline.
- Apply theoretical concepts of intersectionality and social/cultural construction as applied to race, gender, class, sexuality, and other social categories and identities.
- Define sex and gender and explain the difference between them and the significance of this difference.
- Identify the importance of gender and sexuality in social institutions, such as the economy, marriage and the family, education, government, media, politics, and religion.
Outline:
- Feminist Studies: Study of Gender, Culture, and Society
- Women in the history of the United States from 1600’s to present
- Analysis of the features of 19th and 20th century feminism
- Women and world systems and non-western societies
- Theoretical Approaches to Gender
- Rights of women and the liberation of women
- Gender theories: liberal, radical, and socialist theories
- Gender and race in first and second waves of United States feminisms
- Global feminism and women’s lives in non-western societies
- Resistance, alliance, and coalitions
- Learning Gender Socialization
- Intersections of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical and learning challenges of women in the United States
- Early gender socialization and psychological theories
- Growing up feminine or masculine
- Nature, sex, and gender
- Intersection of nature and environment
- Contemporary Feminist Issues: Socialization, Work, and Family
- Nature versus nurture theoretical approaches
- Family economy and traditional women’s work
- Industrialization and the transition to wage labor
- Global economy and non-western women’s lives, the nature versus nurture theoretical approaches, women in global historical perspectives
- Social welfare policies
- Body and Health Issues
- Health, food, and beauty
- Reproduction, reproductive freedom, children
- Non-western women’s lives: body, food, and health
- Gender Issues and Intimacy
- Women’s sexuality: heterosexuality and patriarchy
- Gay, bisexual, and lesbian relationships
- Sex and violence: domestic violence and child abuse
- Sex and violence: rape and sexual harassment
- Women and psychotherapy
- Non-western women’s lives and violence
- United States and international gay and lesbian movements
- Gender and the Economy
- Women in the United States economy: historical perspectives
- Gendered division of labor in the global economy
- Gender, Politics, Government, and the Military
- Gender and politics
- Gender and government
- Physical and learning challenges of women in the United States
- Gender and international politics and government
- Gender, Education, Creativity, and Language
- Sexism and gender
- Gender and the media
- Gender and education
- Gender, education and participation of international women
- Gender and Spirituality
- Utopian and dystopian visions
- Gender and religion
- Religion, politics, and social change
- Feminist spirituality
- International challenges to religious patriarchy
- Movements for social change: war, peace, and spirituality
Effective Term: Fall 2023
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