WMST 300: Current Issues in Women and Gender Studies
WMST 300-001: Women's Activism: Jim Crow/Black Power
(Spring 2012)
12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW
Innovation Hall 131
Section Information for Spring 2012
Through the use of historical texts, autobiography, articles, and film, this course will investigate the activism of women who challenged hierarchical race, class and gender structures. Focusing on experiences and struggles of black women from the Jim Crow period to the rise of the Black Power Movement, the course will explore the role of sexist and racist ideologies in their lives, their alliances white women, the changes in their economic and political status, the legal and social barriers they faced, and the ways in which they were defined within families and within popular culture. The course materials present us with the multifaceted experiences of black women by focusing on the intersecting ideologies of race, color, class, sexuality, and gender.View 2 Other Sections of this Course in this Semester »
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Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 1-6
Study of selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Topics vary but include subjects such as women and violence, women and international development, women's myth and ritual, LGBTQ topics, the history and politics of sexuality, psychoanalysis, and religion. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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