Women's and Gender Studies Courses Being Offered Spring 2008
CAPS 401 Renaissance Women
W 2:00-4:52pm Christiane Andersson (Art, cander@bucknell.edu, x71283, x71307)
Interdisciplinary study of Renaissance women, their lives and experiences, and their images in painting, sculpture and prints, considering them within their historical, social and literary contexts. From portraits of individual women, to pictures of Venus and Cleopatra, to female saints and the Virgin Mary, focus will be on the construction and self-fashioning of such images, and methods and issues pertaining to their analysis and interpretation.
CAPS 407 Political Economy of Race
MW 8:30-9:52am Nina Banks (Economics, nbanks@bucknell.edu, x71652)
This seminar enables you to critically analyze the dynamics of race and ethnicity within the United States. We will focus on race as part of an interlocking system of relationships that include gender, class, and sexuality. The course explores conceptual frameworks for understanding these processes as well as the institutional arrangements in which they are embedded. We will pay particular attention to economic theories and outcomes associated with the interplay of race, gender, and class.
CAPS 413 European History: Fairy Tales
W 2:00-4:52pm Ann Tlusty (History, thlusty@bucknell.edu, x73703)
This course will explore our own Western experience by placing familiar fairy tales into the context of European history. In doing so, encourage speculation on the construction and evolution of Western mentalities. The course will cover the telling of tales from their earliest recorded forms to our twentieth-century experience with them, and their translation into differing forms of media.
CAPS 431 Women and the Penal System
T 12:00-4:52pm Coralynn Davis (Women’s and Gender Studies, cvdavis@bucknell.edu, x71380)
R 1:00-2:22pm In this course, we address the topic of women’s incarceration with two major objectives in mind. First, we extend particular feminist principles and methodologies to our understanding of women in the penal system. Here we emphasize descriptions, analyses, and theorizations of women’s experiences that have been foundational to the field of Women’s Studies. Second, we wish to gain a fuller understanding of the historical realities and of women’s incarceration through the experience of service learning.
CLAS 350 Women in Antiquity
TR 1:00-2:22pm Stephanie Larson (Classics, slarson@bucknell.edu, x73729)
So many books and programs about antiquity focus on political and military histories of ancient Greece and Rome, yet most of the relevant events do not concern half of the population of these cultures. This course offers the chance to study and discuss this often forgotten half of the ancient demographic. We will consider various myths and stereotypes about women, such as Pandora, Helen, and Lucretia, and the roles such myths played in the cultures as a whole. We will also consider other aspects of women's lives such as marriage, legal rights, occupation, education, childbirth, and death.
EDUC 290 Gender Issues in Education
TR 1:00-2:22pm Katharyn Nottis (Education, knottis@bucknell.edu, x73462)
This course is designed to examine the multiple ways that gender interacts in the teaching/learning process. We will examine evidence from gender differences, causal factors associated with those differences, ways gender differences may vary by ethnic background and socio-economic status, the role of the educational system in maintaining gender differences, and strategies to achieve gender equity in the schools.
ENGL 140/ Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
WMST 140 Glynis Carr (English, gcarr@bucknell.edu, x73118)
MW 3:00-4:22pm This course introduces several major themes in women's and gender studies,
drawing on interdisciplinary material including history, literature, art, popular media, psychology, politics, religion, and health. We will look at how gender identities are constructed and how gender-based roles, images, and assumptions have been reflected in social institutions and the practices of everyday life. Also, we will look at the impact of the contemporary feminist movement.
ENGL 219 The Novels of Toni Morrison
MWF 12-12:52pm Carmen Gillespie (English, Carmen.gillespie@bucknell.edu, x71651)
In this course we will read the novels of the United States' most recent and only female Nobel laureate. Morrison’s fiction raises questions fundamental to the American experiment and experience. Through her works, Morrison attempts to reinvigorate language and, in so doing, create possibilities for dismantling the destructive hierarchies and misrepresentations that come to define human interactions.
ENGL 228 Topics in Gender Studies
TR 2:30-3:52pm Glynis Carr (English, gcarr@bucknell.edu, x73118)
This course explores current topics in gender studies, such as how sexual identities are formed, recent changes in how femininities and masculinities are articulated, gendered images in media, sexuality in youth cultures, the regulation of sexuality, the social and legal status of gay, lesbian, bisexual education, hate crimes and other forms of sexual violence. Students will have the opportunity to put issues on the agenda and to select some of the readings.
ENGL 286 The Modern Novel: V. Woolf
WF 3:00-4:52pm Mara de Gennaro (English, mgd009@bucknell.edu, x71653)
A close examination of Virginia Woolf’s major novels and essays, with attention to their formal and conceptual innovations, literary and historical contexts, and enduring legacy in both modern fiction and feminist theory. We will also read short selections from the work of some of her contemporaries and read essay critics of Woolf’s work.
ENGL 307 Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson
R 1:00-3:52pm Saundra Morris (English, morris@bucknell.edu, x71657)
Focusing on poems but with some attention to prose, especially prose statements about poetry, this course reads the texts of three 19th century writers whose work is crucial to subsequent literature and culture in and beyond America. We pay special attention to interrelations among literary form, theories of poetry, and political concerns. This course will help improve our ability to read poetry and prose; to increase understanding of the relationships among poetry, theories of poetry, culture, and politics.
ENGL 321 Black Women Writers and Myth
M 2-4:22pm Carmen Gillespie (English, Carmen.gillespie@bucknell.edu, x71651)
n this course we will examine the works of African American women writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Edwidge Danticat. From the early years of the 20th century to the present, these writers have attempted to create fiction that illuminates the realities of African American women’s lives, a history often rendered invisible or irrelevant to serious literary discourse and consideration. The course will also consider the possible negative implications of these fictional/mythological constructions.
GEOG 223 Gender and Geography
TR 9:30-10:52pm Karen Morin (Geography, morin@bucknell.edu, x71793)
The course provides a broad introduction to key ways in which gender has been integral to the ways we think about the world and the ways it has become organized. That is, how women and men often come to occupy quite different ‘places’ in it both literally and figuratively or occupy the same places in different ways.
HIST 279 Women, Science, Technology
W 2:00-4:52pm Martha Verbrugge (History, verbrgge@bucknell.edu, x73862)
The purpose of HIST 279 is to examine the historical relationship between science, technology, and women over the past few centuries. First, we will study women as agents of discovery. Second, we will consider women as the subjects of scientific research and the users of technology. In sum, our objective is to understand the experiences of women and the dynamics of science and technology - and the historical forces that have intertwined them.
HIST 330 European History
M 2:00-4:52pm Ann Tlusty (History, tlusty@bucknell.edu, x73703)
This course will examine the relationship of early modern Europeans to weapons in the context of individual and collective self-defense. Topics may include rules and restrictions on carrying weapons in medieval and early modern Europe; cultural representations of the sword; the militia tradition and the duty to serve; weapons and sports; the effects of changing technology and shifts in fashion on weapons cultures; the relationship of civilian militias to standing armies; and the roots of the debate over the right to bear arms in the eighteenth century.
HUMN 320 History of Sexuality
TR 2:30-3:52pm Ghislaine McDayter (English, mcdayter@bucknell.edu, x71453)
Using both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, this seminar examines the signification of sexuality from Western antiquity to the present. Critical evaluation of the construction of sexuality throughout history will challenge, amongst other things, what have been considered the categories of “natural” and “unnatural” practices in culture. Course material will introduce students to the cultural expectations of gender, sexual deviancy, transvestitism, pornography and race as they are filtered through sociopolitical dictates of each period.
WMST 150 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
TR 9:30-10:52am Coralynn Davis (Women’s and Gender Studies, cvdavis@bucknell.edu, x71380)
This course introduces several major themes in women's studies, drawing on interdisciplinary material including history, fiction, psychology, politics and religion. We will look at how we become female or male in America, how gender identity is constructed, and how gender - based roles, images and assumptions have been reflected in law, literature, education, public policy, health and everyday life. We will also look at the impact of the contemporary feminist movement.
WMST 320 Independent Studies: Women’s and Gender Studies
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