GNSE 10100-10200. Problems in the Study of Gender; Problems in the Study of Sexuality.

This two-quarter interdisciplinary sequence is designed as an introduction to theories and critical practices in the study of feminism, gender, and sexuality. Both classic texts and recent conceptualizations of these contested fields are examined. Problems and cases from a variety of cultures and historical periods are considered, and the course pursues their differing implications in local, national, and global contexts. Both quarters also engage questions of aesthetics and representation, asking how stereotypes, generic conventions, and other modes of circulated fantasy have contributed to constraining and emancipating people through their gender or sexuality.

GNSE 12000. The Biology of Gender. 100 Units.

 This course explores the biological evidence and theories that seek to explain gender in humans. This course relies on current research in neuroscience, physiology, and cell biology to address topics such as the genetics of gender; sexual differentiation of the fetus; sexually dimorphic brain regions; the biology of gender identity and gender preference; and hormonal/environmental contributions to gender.

Instructor(s): M. Osadjan     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): BIOS 11119

GNSE 15600. Medieval English Literature. 100 Units.

This course examines the relations among psychology, ethics, and social theory in fourteenth-century English literature. We pay particular attention to three central preoccupations of the period: sex, the human body, and the ambition of ethical perfection. Readings are drawn from Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Gower, penitential literature, and saints' lives. There are also  some supplementary readings in the social history of late medieval England.

Instructor(s): M. Miller     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 15600

GNSE 18804. 19th Century Segment of the U.S. Survey. 100 Units.

This is where modern America begins. Before there was a Great Recession or an Occupy Wall Street, there was the nineteenth-century roller coaster of prosperity and panic, the robber barons and newfound workers' unions of the Gilded Age; the passionate public debates over the central bank, monetary policy, and the national currency. Before the Tea Party, the Founders themselves debated over which ways to make their Revolution realized, enduring, and meaningful in daily interactions as well as institutions. To understand the debates over the recently concluded Iraq War, we must return to the origins of American imperialism in the 1800s. To appreciate the significance and symbolism of the first African-American president, we have to revisit the nation's long history of slavery, racism, and segregation.
,The nineteenth-century survey will examine the experiences and the conflicts that made up the history of modern American society, as it unfolded over the course of the 1800s. Weather permitting, the class will take at least one short trip to relevant historical site in (or around) Chicago. Requirements include careful reading, active and thoughtful participation, and a series of short written assignments.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 18804,LLSO 22106

GNSE 20100. The Family. 100 Units.

Everyone is a member of a family. The family has been one of the most important social institutions in every society throughout history. But the shape that families take, the functions they fill, and the problems they face vary historically and cross-culturally. So families in Sweden look different from and act differently than families in Saudi Arabia or Brazil. And American families today differ dramatically from a century ago. This course looks at families from a sociological perspective, focusing on the family as a social group, the institution of the family, and differences in families within and across societies. We consider how public policies—such as those aiding needy families (TANF) and recognizing same-sex marriage—affect families and how family members work to influence public policies. We draw on contemporary media representations of families and their challenges in order to evaluate sociological theories. The course follows lecture/discussion format. Students are responsible for three one-page papers on topics drawn from the course, a mid-term, and a final. Prerequisites include one or more general introductory courses in sociology or a related social science or consent of the instructor.

Instructor(s): L. Waite     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): At least one prior basic course in sociology or related social science, or consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): SOCI 20123

GNSE 20170. The Sociology of Deviant Behavior. 100 Units.

This course examines how distinctions between "normal" and "deviant" are created, and how these labels shift historically, culturally, and politically. We analyze the construction of social problems and moral panics (e.g., smoking, "satanic" daycares, obesity) to explore how various moral entrepreneurs shape what some sociologists call a "culture of fear." Additionally, we investigate the impact on individuals of being labeled "deviant" either voluntarily or involuntarily, as a way of illustrating how both social control and social change operate in society.

Instructor(s): K. Schilt     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2012-13
Equivalent Course(s): SOCI 20175

GNSE 20207. The Anthropology of Intimate Violence. 100 Units.

Gendered violence—in particular, violence that takes place in the home--has been recognized as a major problem across the developed and developing world alike. In recent decades, it has emerged as a target of a range of interventions based in NGOs, states, and transnational bodies such as the UN. Yet what precisely counts as violence in this context? What makes “gendered” or “household” violence distinct from other forms of violence? And why is this issue of such importance in this current historical moment?

Anthropology, with its sustained, detailed ethnographic approach to the study of social life, offers a unique perspective on the pragmatic and conceptual impasses generated by intimate violence. As many anthropologists have shown, violence is often continuous with, rather than opposed to, intimacy and domesticity. In this course, we’ll focus on intimate violence as one instantiation of gendered violence and explore a range of research on the topic in order to complicate and expand our understanding of both gendered violence as well as the institutional interventions designed to engage it. In order to do so, we’ll explore questions of gendered difference, family structure, power, and the question of public and private spheres, central questions within gender studies as a whole.

Instructor(s): Julia Kowalski     Terms Offered: Winter 2013

GNSE 20208. Feminist Theory and Counter-Cinema. 100 Units.

Feminism in Great Britain, France, and America has produced a rigorous intellectual, theoretical, and aesthetic legacy within the field of film studies. This course will explore the central debates of feminist psychoanalytic film theory (the patriarchal unconscious; Hollywood narrative; the gaze; genre; visual/female pleasure; masochism; the female spectator; resistant spectators) and criticism as we also integrate the contemporary movement of feminist historiography into our central mode of inquiry. The theoretical debates surrounding the critique of language, the question of feminine writing, cinécriture, and the female author will inform our investigation of the radical aesthetics of feminist counter cinema. Films include: Queen Christina; Orlando; Craig’s Wife; Le Bonheur; Vertigo; Hiroshima, Mon Amour; Mahogany; Salome; Fuses; Riddles of the Sphynx; Film About a Woman Who...; Jeanne Dielman; Tapage Nocturne; Sex is Comedy.�

Instructor(s): Jennifer Wild     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 22213,FREN 32213,GNSE 30308,CMST 40202

GNSE 20800. Sexual Identity/Life Course/Life Study. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SOSC 25900,CHDV 24600,CHDV 34600,PSYC 24600,PSYC 34600,GNSE 30800,HIPS 26900

GNSE 21001. Cultural Psychology. 100 Units.

There is a substantial portion of the psychological nature of human beings that is neither homogeneous nor fixed across time and space. At the heart of the discipline of cultural psychology is the tenet of psychological pluralism. Research findings in cultural psychology raise provocative questions about the integrity and value of alternative forms of subjectivity across cultural groups. This course analyzes the concept of “culture” and examines ethnic and cross-cultural variations in mental functioning, with special attention to the cultural psychology of emotions, self, moral judgment, categorization, and reasoning.

Instructor(s): R. Shweder     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 21500,ANTH 35110,CHDV 21000,CHDV 31000,PSYC 23000,PSYC 33000

GNSE 21400. Advanced Theories of Sex/Gender. 100 Units.

Beginning with the extension of the democratic revolution in the breakup of the New Left, this seminar will expore the key debates (foundations, psychoanalysis, sexual difference, universalism, multiculturalism) around which gender and sexuality came to be articulated as politically significant categories in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Instructor(s): L. Zerilli     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GNDR 10100-10200 and GNDR 28505 or 28605 or permission of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): ARTH 21400,ARTH 31400,ENGL 21401,ENGL 30201,GNSE 31400,MAPH 36500,PLSC 21410,PLSC 31410

GNSE 21500. Darwinian Health. 100 Units.

This course will use an evolutionary, rather than clinical, approach to understanding why we get sick. In particular, we will consider how health issues such as menstruation, senescence, pregnancy sickness, menopause, and diseases can be considered adaptations rather than pathologies. We will also discuss how our rapidly changing environments can reduce the benefits of these adaptations. (A)

Instructor(s): J. Mateo     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor only.
Equivalent Course(s): CHDV 21500,HIPS 22401

GNSE 21805. Gender and Writing at the Fin de Siècle. 100 Units.

This course stretches the chronological boundaries of the fin de siecle to examine British and Irish writing from c. 1880 to 1922. This is a period of turmoil in gender relations that witnesses the rise of the so-called New Woman—the iconic figure of women's growing professional, sexual, and financial independence. Traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity become unstuck, jeopardizing what Adrienne Rich calls the "compulsory heterosexuality" underlying the institutions of marriage and the family.

Instructor(s): M. Ellmann     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 22206

GNSE 21907. Religion, Gender, and Agency. 100 Units.

Religion, Gender, and Agency. This course will explore the tensions around the question of agency as addressed in literature on religion and gender. We will look at various accounts of agency (liberal, post-structuralist, instrumental, material/relative, and others) in order to evaluate the resources and limitations of these models for thinking about agency in cross-cultural contexts. We will explore the following questions: What conceptual tools do we use to measure and talk about agency: resistance? consent? capacity to affect transformation? Under what conditions and in what contexts is a particular act or set of acts an instance of agency and can such contexts be elaborated in advance of action(s)? Are there specifically gendered, classed, and racialized forms of agency? For instance, what do we learn when we compare the agency available to women relative to men of the same class and race or relative to men and women of a different class and race? We will also investigate how these debates might inform our thinking about what counts as 'feminist' politics. Finally, we will ask why has religion become a particularly vexed site for thinking about agency? We will draw on theoretical materials from the fields of religious studies, political theory, anthropology, and philosophy as well as specific case studies including ethnographies of Christian evangelical and Muslim African-American women in the U.S., Egyptian women’s piety movement, and women’s ancestral spirit possession in Malaysia, amid others.

Instructor(s): Larisa Reznik     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 27605

GNSE 22205. Anglo-American Gothic Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. 100 Units.

In the nineteenth century, gothic fiction in English is an Anglo-American phenomenon.  America’s first internationally recognized literary masterpiece, Rip Van Winkle, is written in England and appears the same year as Frankenstein. Our course will study the transatlantic aspect of the gothic tradition, while we also give full attention to the particular qualities of individual texts. Close reading will be central to our project. Attention to textual intricacies will lead to questions about gender and psychology, as well as culture. Our authors will include Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, James Hogg, Poe, Hawthorne, Emily Bronte, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Thomas Hardy.

Instructor(s): W. Veeder     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 26000

GNSE 22206. Glam: Music, Gender, Identity. 100 Units.

The term “glam rock” is most commonly used to refer to a small group of performers, primarily homosexual men, in the early-to-mid 1970s. Most critics use this label in a very narrow way: it refers to a very short period of time, had little broad cultural importance, and is primarily indicative of the broader trend towards self-indulgence and excess that characterized early 1970s American popular culture.

This course will aim to interrogate and redefine the notion of “glam.” We will take as our starting point Philip Auslander’s notion that Glam Rock helped to lead a radical redefining of the way American and British society conceived of gender and sexuality. However, Auslander also considers “glam” performatively, as a way of offering broad social critiques by playing with one’s public persona. Following his lead, we will consider “glam” as a very broad set of ideas and methods for understanding the performance of personal identity–including, but not limited to, gender and sexuality. We will push the concept of “glam” in several directions: the so-called “glam metal” of the 1980s; Bob Dylan’s frequent shifts in musical persona; the sexualized and racialized personas adopted by hip hop artists; and the gender identity questions posed by the operatic voice.

Although this course will focus on musical performers, and we will listen to a series of records, students need not have any musical background to enroll in the course. The course will encourage a broadly interdisciplinary perspective; what few musical concepts are needed will be defined collectively in class.

Instructor(s): Gregory Weinstein     Terms Offered: Spring 2013

GNSE 22401. Latina/o Intellectual Thought. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 22804,LACS 22804,SPAN 22801,CMLT 21401

GNSE 22505. Money and Literature. 100 Units.

This course explores a set of imaginative, anthropological, and economic writings about money.  Topics will include economic rhetoric and genres, market values, housework, and ancient and modern economies.  We will read Gide’s The Counterfeiters, Adiga’s White Tiger, biographies of coins, Chinese economic dialogues, and watch an episode of Suze Orman’s Money Class.  Critical readings will include Mauss, Simmel, Marx, Goux, Rubin, Spivak. 

Instructor(s): Tamara Chin     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 22504

GNSE 22902. Queer Latino Studies. 100 Units.

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Instructor(s): R. Coronado     Terms Offered: Autumn

GNSE 23100. Foucault and The History of Sexuality. 100 Units.

 This course centers on a close reading of the first volume of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, with some attention to his writings on the history of ancient conceptualizations of sex. How should a history of sexuality take into account scientific theories, social relations of power, and different experiences of the self? We discuss the contrasting descriptions and conceptions of sexual behavior before and after the emergence of a science of sexuality. Other writers influenced by and critical of Foucault are also discussed.

Instructor(s): A. Davidson     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): One prior philosophy course is strongly recommended.
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 24800,CMLT 25001,FNDL 22001,HIPS 24300

GNSE 23102. Love, Conjugality, and Capital: Intimacy in the Modern World. 100 Units.

A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy, and family often had a different trajectory from the European one. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings, as well as films, the course explores such topics as the emergence of companionate marriage in Europe and the connections between arranged marriage, dowry, love, and money. Case studies are drawn primarily from Europe, India, and Africa.

Instructor(s): J. Cole, R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): This course typically is offered in alternate years.
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 21525,ANTH 32220,CHDV 22212,CHDV 32212,SALC 23101,SALC 33101

GNSE 23302. Writing Postcolonial History. 100 Units.

What has postcolonial theory meant to the writing of history? When did postcolonial history writing begin? This course addresses these and other related issues. Starting with the Subaltern Studies collective, we chart the career of postcolonial history writing in such varied fields as medieval studies, histories of colonialism, and gender studies.

Instructor(s): R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20703

GNSE 23303. Bombay/Mumbai: Urban Life/Urban Politics. 100 Units.

The Indian city of Bombay and the Mumbai it has now become has been referred to as the “imagined” city, the “kinetic” city, the “cosmopolitan city,” and “the city of slums.”  What do these labels mean to the practice of sociality and politics in Bombay/Mumbai; how does the urban experience in South Asia differ from that in other parts of the world; and how do gender, religion and class influence the different experiences of the city? Bombay/Mumbai: Urban Life/Urban Politics is an interdisciplinary course that will address these and several related issues. Using the city of Mumbai as its lens it introduces students to the ways in which urban subjects and urban life are constituted in a globalizing South Asia. The course explores the city of Mumbai through an urban-culturalist perspective and problematizes the ways in which the built environment of the city: its transportation, streets, slums, neighborhoods, tenements, markets, malls and businesses animate and are animated by the everyday life and politics in the metropolis. It encourages students to think about the ways in which Mumbai’s past and present patterns of urban informality, capitalism, consumption, criminality and urban dislocations mediate very particular experiences of politics, sociality, class, gender and globalization. The course uses a range of historical, theoretical, literary, and ethnographic readings as well as films, photography, and music to highlight the connections between place, space and everyday life in Mumbai.

Instructor(s): T. Bedi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): INST 28550,PBPL 28510,SALC 28510

GNSE 23304. Documents of Work Migration. 100 Units.

This class is an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s work and international migration is documented and represented in the twenty-first century media, law, and culture. The globalization of markets, coupled with the financialization of capital and the development of digital technologies, has triggered changes in labor migration. This change is perhaps best reflected in the emergence of so-called global cities with their large migrant labor force concentrated in the service and maquila industries. Migrant women supply the majority of labor in these globalized urban spaces, a phenomenon to which scholars often refer as the “feminization of labor.” Taking into consideration these economic and social transformations, this class inquires into cultural and legal representations of women’s work migration, focusing on the production and global circulation of a wide variety of narratives of migration, such as discourses on domestic and sex work, human trafficking, undocumented migration, and mail-order marriages. An important emphasis will be on practices of documentation and representation as instances of knowledge production that can both offer alternative understandings of labor migration and reinforce the socio-economic status quo.

Instructor(s): Roxana Galusca     Terms Offered: Spring 2013

GNSE 23700. Medieval Women's Religious Writing. 100 Units.

The purpose of this course is to read different types of writing on religion by medieval women to investigate the relationship between gender and genre. We consider hagiography, letters, autobiography, theology, didactic treatises, and visionary writing by individuals such as Baudonivia, Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, Christine de Pisan, and Teresa of Avila.

Instructor(s): L. Pick     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 20700

GNSE 23804. Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, Part I. 100 Units.

This two-quarter course is focused on reading and discussing the entire six volumes of Proust’s monumental novel in English translation. Topics of conversation will depend on the interests of participants, but are sure to include questions of ethics and aesthetics and the relations among consciousness, memory, fictionality, and narrative. Reading assignments will be approximately 120 pages per class meeting. For Fundamentals, Gender Studies, and MAPH students, no knowledge of French is required. French students will read selected parts of the text in the original, meet weekly for a French-language discussion, and write a term paper in French for each quarter. The first (Winter) quarter of the sequence may be taken for a grade without taking the second (Spring) quarter. Assignment for the first meeting: read the introduction and first 121 pages of Swann’s Way in the Modern Library edition, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright.

Instructor(s): D. Wray     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 23804,FREN 23804

GNSE 23805. Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, Part II. 100 Units.

This two-quarter course is focused on reading and discussing the entire six volumes of Proust’s monumental novel in English translation. Topics of conversation will depend on the interests of participants, but are sure to include questions of ethics and aesthetics and the relations among consciousness, memory, fictionality, and narrative. Reading assignments will be approximately 120 pages per class meeting. For Fundamentals, Gender Studies, and MAPH students, no knowledge of French is required. French students will read selected parts of the text in the original, meet weekly for a French-language discussion, and write a term paper in French for each quarter. The first (Winter) quarter of the sequence may be taken for a grade without taking the second (Spring) quarter. Assignment for the first meeting: read the introduction and first 121 pages of Swann’s Way in the Modern Library edition, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright.

Instructor(s): D. Wray     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 23805,FREN 23805

GNSE 24001. Love and Eros: Japanese History. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 34001,HIST 24001,HIST 34001,JAPN 24001,JAPN 34001

GNSE 24303. Sex and the State. 100 Units.

How, why and when is the state interested in sex? Can we do anything about state interventions into sex? And why might we want to? This course looks at the way that the sex, gender, and sexuality has been a central concern to statecraft and how sexual politics are, in turn enmeshed in the state. In the course, we will look at feminist and queer responses to the relationship between sex and state power from a variety of disciplines and traditions. There is no one way to see a state (social contract, biopolitical administrator, sovereign exception), yet all these perspectives are open to gender and sexual critiques. Readings in the course will offer us a variety of approaches that can inspire our own interventions to analyze and perhaps critique the ways in which the state continues to regulate sex. Punctuated between these readings will be three modules where we will consider issues in our historical present ** where we will read contemporary journalism and engage in feminist and queer critiques of the state regulation of sex. As a final project, students will pick their own case and apply class and outside readings in a ten-page analysis.

Instructor(s): Joseph Jay Sosa     Terms Offered: Spring 2013

GNSE 24401. Reading Freud. 100 Units.

The fate of Freud’s writings in the late 20th and early 21st century has been a peculiar one. On the one hand, his work had been declared by many to be unscientific, intellectually bankrupt, and morally suspicious. On the other, his writings continue to be a source of inspiration and provocation, both directly and indirectly, not only to psychoanalytic theory, but to feminism, queer theory, film theory, literary and cultural studies, and throughout the arts and popular culture. This is clearly a situation that calls for some rethinking of what Freud’s work amounts to. The purpose of this course will be to take some initial steps towards such a rethinking, by returning to a careful consideration of Freud’s texts. We will mainly be concerned with Freud not as the source of a theory of the psyche, much less a theory capable of yielding a therapeutic practice, but with Freud as a speculative thinker concerned with the ontology of desire, a thinker nagged by questions with respect to which he remained restless and uncertain. As such, we will to a large extent set to the side some topics that many have taken to be the central ones for understanding psychoanalysis, including Freud’s various psychic topographies, the Oedipus complex, traumatic and developmental narratives generally, and the therapeutic situation; and when these do concern us, they will be as sites of disturbance rather than the production of perspicuous theory. The exact reading list is yet to be determined, but it will most likely include Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Civilization and its Discontents, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a case study or two such as Dora or the Wolf Man, selections from The Interpretation of Dreams, “Mourning and Melancholia,” “The Economic Problem of Masochism,” and “A Child is Being Beaten.”

Instructor(s): M. Miller     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 22202

GNSE 24900. Nabokov: Lolita. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 25300

GNSE 24903. Mimesis. 100 Units.

This course introduces the concept of mimesis (imitation, representation), tracing it from Plato and Aristotle through some of its reformulations in recent literary, feminist, and critical theory. Topics include desire, postcolonialism, and non-Western aesthetic traditions. Readings may include Plato, Aristotle, Euripides’s Bacchae, Book of Songs, Lu Ji’s Rhapsody on Literature, Auerbach, Butler, Derrida, and Spivak.

Instructor(s): T. Chin     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): This course meets the critical/intellectual methods course requirement for students who are majoring in Comparative Literature.
Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 24902,EALC 24902

GNSE 25200. Happiness. 100 Units.

From Plato to the present, notions of happiness have been at the core of heated debate in ethics and politics. Is happiness the ultimate good for human beings, the essence of the good life, or is morality somehow prior to it? Can it be achieved by all, or only by a fortunate few? These are some of the questions that this course engages, with the help of both classic and contemporary texts from philosophy, literature, and the social sciences. This course includes various video presentations and other materials stressing visual culture.

Instructor(s): B. Schultz     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 21400

GNSE 25900. Austen: Pride and Prejudice/Emma/Persuasion. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 25500,HUMA 21600

GNSE 26102. Sexuality Studies in American Art. 100 Units.

Taking the recent, controversial exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference & Desire in American Portraiture as our springboard, this course examines the plural strategies by which sexuality studies (in modes ranging from feminist history to psychoanalysis to queer theory) have been brought to bear on the canon of modern American art over the past thirty years, and the ways they have refigured our investigative methods, our objects of study, and the canon itself. Treating sexuality as a multivalent force in the creation of modern art and culture (rather than merely as subject), our topics will range from the 1870s to the 1960s—the years before artistic engagements with sexuality and gender were radically transformed by postmodernism and contemporary identity politics. Case studies will include the work of, and recent scholarship about, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, the Stieglitz circle (Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe), the trans-Atlantic "New Women" of the 1920s (Berenice Abbott, Romaine Brooks), the downtown bohemian and uptown Harlem Renaissance scenes of 1920s-30s New York, Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Eva Hesse. Readings are drawn from recent art historical and key theoretical texts, with an emphasis on methodological analysis.

Instructor(s): S. Miller     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Any course in modern or American art history or ARTH 10100 or a course in gender studies.
Equivalent Course(s): ARTH 24030,ARTH 34030

GNSE 26212. Women’s Narratives: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Catalonia. 100 Units.

This course explores some of the major trends in contemporary literary and visual production in Catalan culture through the analysis of novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels and films by women writers, artists and filmmakers. An introduction to the historical and cultural background from which women’s verbal and visual production in Catalan has emerged will be provided, as well as a discussion of the processes through which its manifestations have come into being with reference to social and cultural change. The course favors a historical, interdisciplinary and intertextual approach that facilitates interconnected readings of the texts selected for in-depth analysis. In order to enable the students to engage with the texts under study in an informed and scholarly manner, a number of theoretical approaches to narratology, feminism, social and cultural history, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and postmodernism are also part of the course.
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,The course is divided into three major thematic groups, and each group is represented by at least two texts. All texts have been produced in the last fifteen years, with the exception of Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant/The Time of the Doves, published in 1962, which has been included because Rodoreda constitutes a crucial turning point in the history of female-authored literature in Catalan, and because of the lasting effects of her influence on younger writers.

Instructor(s): M. Lunati     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Classes will be conducted in English. All texts are available either in English or in Spanish (or both) for those students who might find it difficult to read them in the original Catalan. Films have English subtitles.
Equivalent Course(s): CATA 26212,CATA 36212,SPAN 26212,SPAN 36212

GNSE 26902. Gender in Korean Film and Dramatic Television. 100 Units.

The course introduces a group of representative cinematic and television dramatic texts with the assumption that the ideas and practices surrounding gender and sexuality have been integral to the development of dramatic art forms in modern Korea. The primary objective is to discuss the ways in which various discourses and features of modern gendering are interwoven into the workings of filmic structure and image-making. While attending to distinctive generic characteristics of film as distinct from literature and of dramatic television as distinguished from film, the course explores the concrete possibilities, challenges, and limits with which cinematic texts address the questions of gender relations and sexuality.

Instructor(s): K. Choi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 26900,EALC 36900,GNSE 36900

GNSE 27100. Sociology of Human Sexuality. 100 Units.

After briefly reviewing several biological and psychological approaches to human sexuality as points of comparison, this course explores the sociological perspective on sexual conduct and its associated beliefs and consequences for individuals and society. Substantive topics include gender relations; life-course perspectives on sexual conduct in youth, adolescence, and adulthood; social epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (e.g., AIDS); sexual partner choice and turnover; and the incidence/prevalence of selected sexual practices.

Instructor(s): E. Laumann     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Introductory social sciences course
Equivalent Course(s): SOCI 20107,SOCI 30107

GNSE 27502. Indian Cinema: An Introduction. 100 Units.

This introductory course on Indian cinema starts with the works of Dadsaheb Phalke and then maps out the trajectories taken up by the different cinemas of the subcontinent. It is divided into analyses of “art cinema,” “regional cinemas,” and “Bollywood.”

Instructor(s): R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20507

GNSE 27600. Feminism & The Visual Arts. 100 Units.

For course description contact Art History.

Equivalent Course(s): ARTH 27400,ARTH 37400,GNSE 37400

GNSE 27702. Gender in the Balkans through Literature and Film. 100 Units.

 This introductory course examines the poetics of femininity and masculinity in some of the best works of he Balkan region. We contemplate how the experiences of masculinity and femininity are constituted and the issues of socialization related to these modes of being. Topics include the traditional family model, the challenges of modernization and urbanization, the socialist paradigm, and the post-socialist changes. Finally, we consider the relation between gender and nation, especially in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. All work in English.

Instructor(s): A. Ilieva     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): SOSL 27610

GNSE 28202. U.S. Latinos: Origins and Histories. 100 Units.

An examination of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural histories of those who are now commonly identified as Latinos in the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formative historical experiences of Mexican-Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans, although some consideration will also be given to the historians of other Latino groups—i.e., Cubans, Central Americans, and Dominicans. Topics include cultural and geographic origins and ties; imperialism and colonizations; the economics of migration and employment; legal status; work, women, and the family; racism and other forms of discrimination; the politics of national identity; language and popular culture; and the place of Latinos in U.S. society.

Instructor(s): R. Gutierrez     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28000,CRES 28000,HIST 38000,LACS 28000,LACS 38000

GNSE 28601. Outsiders I: Elsa Morante. 100 Units.

One of the most innovative and original writers of the twentieth-century Italy, Elsa Morante (1912-1985) did not enjoy canonization and full integration into the modern Italian novel tradition during her life. From the late 1940s to her death, her works stimulated numerous critical debates, but she remained fundamentally an “outsider” whose art could not find a comfortable place in the prevailing niches into which her more “insider” contemporaries were placed. In this course we shall read and analyze in detail her novels and essays, and consider the earlier and more recent critical reception of her corpus. We shall also consider her influence on subsequent writers, and the ways in which her poetics and practice interact in important ways with feminist, queer, and political theories of current interest. Given that her major novels are translated into English, the course is open to non-specialists of Italian literature, although students concentrating on Italian literature will read the original versions.

Instructor(s): R. West     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 24803,ITAL 34803

GNSE 28604. Law and Social Movements in Modern America. 100 Units.

This course traces and examines the relationship of law and social movements in the United States since 1865. We examine how lawyers and ordinary citizens have used the law to support the expansion of social, political, and economic rights in America. We also look at how the state and civic organizations have shaped and deployed law to criminalize the strategies of social reform movements and stifle dissent.

Instructor(s): J. Dailey     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28604,HMRT 28604,LLSO 28604

GNSE 28703. Race in the 20th Century Atlantic World. 100 Units.

This lecture course will provide an introduction to the workings of race on both sides of the Atlantic form the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topics covered will include: the very definition of the term "race"; politics on the naming, gathering and use of statistics on racial categories; the changing uses of race in advertising; how race figures in the politics and practices of reproduction; representations of race in children's books; race in sports and the media.  We will explore both relatively autonomous developments with in the nation-states composing the Atlantic world, but our main focus will be on transfer, connections, and influences across that body of water.  Most of the materials assigned will be primary sources ranging from films, fiction, poetry, political interventions, posters, advertisements, music, and material culture.  Key theoretical essays from the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States will also be assigned.

Instructor(s): T. Holt & L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28704,CRES 28704,GNSE 38702,HIST 38704,LLSO 28313

GNSE 28905. 19th Century U.S. West. 100 Units.

"Go west, young man, go west!" newspaper editor Horace Greeley loved to say, although he only visited the region and did not coin the phrase. It referred to the host of opportunities thought to be lying in wait among the uncharted territories out yonder. The West has embodied the American dream; it has also represented an American nightmare. This course will examine the changing definitions, demographics, conceptualizations, and significance of the nineteenth-century North American West. We will cover an exceptionally dynamic period between the Northwest Ordinance and the Spanish-American War—an endpoint that inherently calls into question the very concept of the West itself.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28905,ENGL 25417,HIST 38905,LLSO 21103

GNSE 29302. Issues in Women's Health. 100 Units.

The course will focus on important sources of morbidity and mortality in women, such as heart disease, breast cancer, depression, eating disorders, and HIV. In addition to learning about the etiology, biology, and epidemiology of these conditions, we will explore related social, historical, political and cultural issues. The course will be comprised of presentations by the instructor, guest lectures by clinical experts in the condition of interest, and student-led discussions of readings.

Instructor(s): L. Kurina     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Not offered in 2013-14
Equivalent Course(s): BIOS 29317,GNSE 30500,HSTD 30500

GNSE 29600. Feminist Philosophy. 100 Units.

The course is an introduction to the major varieties of philosophical feminism: Liberal Feminism (Mill, Wollstonecraft, Okin, Nussbaum), Radical Feminism (MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin), Difference Feminism (Gilligan, Held, Noddings), and Postmodern "Queer" Feminism (Rubin, Butler).  After studying each of these approaches, we will focus on political and ethical problems of contemporary international feminism, asking how well each of the approaches addresses these problems. (I)

Instructor(s): M. Nussbaum     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduates by permission only.
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 31900,LAWS 47701,PLSC 51900,RETH 41000,PHIL 31900

GNSE 29700. Readings in Gender Studies. 100 Units.

Terms Offered: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. May be taken for P/F grading with consent of instructor. With prior approval, students who are majoring in Gender Studies may use this course to satisfy program requirements.

GNSE 29800-29900. BA Seminar; BA Essay.

GNSE 29800 and 29900 form a two-quarter sequence for seniors who are writing a BA essay.

GNSE 30308. Feminist Theory and Counter-Cinema. 100 Units.

Feminism in Great Britain, France, and America has produced a rigorous intellectual, theoretical, and aesthetic legacy within the field of film studies. This course will explore the central debates of feminist psychoanalytic film theory (the patriarchal unconscious; Hollywood narrative; the gaze; genre; visual/female pleasure; masochism; the female spectator; resistant spectators) and criticism as we also integrate the contemporary movement of feminist historiography into our central mode of inquiry. The theoretical debates surrounding the critique of language, the question of feminine writing, cinécriture, and the female author will inform our investigation of the radical aesthetics of feminist counter cinema. Films include: Queen Christina; Orlando; Craig’s Wife; Le Bonheur; Vertigo; Hiroshima, Mon Amour; Mahogany; Salome; Fuses; Riddles of the Sphynx; Film About a Woman Who...; Jeanne Dielman; Tapage Nocturne; Sex is Comedy.�

Instructor(s): Jennifer Wild     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 22213,FREN 32213,GNSE 20208,CMST 40202

GNSE 30500. Issues in Women's Health. 100 Units.

The course will focus on important sources of morbidity and mortality in women, such as heart disease, breast cancer, depression, eating disorders, and HIV. In addition to learning about the etiology, biology, and epidemiology of these conditions, we will explore related social, historical, political and cultural issues. The course will be comprised of presentations by the instructor, guest lectures by clinical experts in the condition of interest, and student-led discussions of readings.

Instructor(s): L. Kurina     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Not offered in 2013-14
Equivalent Course(s): BIOS 29317,GNSE 29302,HSTD 30500

GNSE 30901. Biopsychology of Sex Differences. 100 Units.

This course will explore the biological basis of mammalian sex differences and reproductive behaviors. We will consider a variety of species, including humans.  We will address the physiological, hormonal, ecological and social basis of sex differences. To get the most from this course, students should have some background in biology, preferably from taking an introductory course in biology or biological psychology. (A, 1)

Instructor(s): J. Mateo     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): PSYC 31600,EVOL 36900,CHDV 30901

GNSE 31400. Advanced Theories of Sex/Gender: Ideology, Culture, and Sexuality. 100 Units.

Beginning with the extension of the democratic revolution in the breakup of the New Left, this seminar will expore the key debates (foundations, psychoanalysis, sexual difference, universalism, multiculturalism) around which gender and sexuality came to be articulated as politically significant categories in the late 1980s and the 1990s. (A)

Instructor(s): L. Zerilli     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GNSE 10100-10200 and GNSE 28505 or 28605 or permission of instructor.
Equivalent Course(s): PLSC 21410,ARTH 21400,ARTH 31400,ENGL 21401,ENGL 30201,MAPH 36500,PLSC 31410

GNSE 34001. Love and Eros: Japanese History. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 24001,HIST 24001,HIST 34001,JAPN 24001,JAPN 34001

GNSE 36900. Gender in Korean Film and Dramatic Television. 100 Units.

The course introduces a group of representative cinematic and television dramatic texts with the assumption that the ideas and practices surrounding gender and sexuality have been integral to the development of dramatic art forms in modern Korea. The primary objective is to discuss the ways in which various discourses and features of modern gendering are interwoven into the workings of filmic structure and image-making. While attending to distinctive generic characteristics of film as distinct from literature and of dramatic television as distinguished from film, the course explores the concrete possibilities, challenges, and limits with which cinematic texts address the questions of gender relations and sexuality.

Instructor(s): K. Choi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 26900,EALC 36900,GNSE 26902

GNSE 37400. Feminism & The Visual Arts. 100 Units.

For course description contact Art History.

Equivalent Course(s): ARTH 27400,ARTH 37400,GNSE 27600

GNSE 38702. Race in the 20th Century Atlantic World. 100 Units.

This lecture course will provide an introduction to the workings of race on both sides of the Atlantic form the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topics covered will include: the very definition of the term "race"; politics on the naming, gathering and use of statistics on racial categories; the changing uses of race in advertising; how race figures in the politics and practices of reproduction; representations of race in children's books; race in sports and the media.  We will explore both relatively autonomous developments with in the nation-states composing the Atlantic world, but our main focus will be on transfer, connections, and influences across that body of water.  Most of the materials assigned will be primary sources ranging from films, fiction, poetry, political interventions, posters, advertisements, music, and material culture.  Key theoretical essays from the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States will also be assigned.

Instructor(s): T. Holt & L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28704,CRES 28704,GNSE 28703,HIST 38704,LLSO 28313

GNSE 50101. Law-Philosophy Workshop. Units.

The Workshop will explore a broad range of topics that arise in ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of criminal law related to questions of freedom and responsibility:   what is it to act freely?  Is responsibility compatible with the causal determination of action?  Does the assignment of responsibility in the criminal law make philosophical sense?  How does addiction or mental illness affect ascriptions of responsibility in the law, and how should it?  Readings will be drawn from philosophy, psychology, and criminal law theory.  Coates and Leiter will meet with enrolled students for two two-hour sessions in October to go over some classic readings on the subject of freedom and responsibility.   We will then host six or seven outside speakers addressing these issues.  Coates or Leiter will meet with the students a week in advance for one hour to go over the readings.   Confirmed speakers so far include Pamela Hieryonmi (Philosophy, UCLA), Stephen Morse (Law & Psychiatry, Penn), Hanna Pickard (Philosophy, Oxford), Derk Pereboom (Philosophy, Cornell), and Gary Watson (Law & Philosophy, Southern California). Attendance at all sessions of the Workshop is a requirement.   JD students should contact bleiter@uchicago.edu with a resume and a brief statement of background and/or interest in the topic in order to secure permission to enroll.  Philosophy PhD students may enroll without submitting these materials.

Instructor(s): B. Laurence, B. Leiter, J. Coates     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Extends over more than one quarter. Continuing students only.
Equivalent Course(s): LAWS 61512,RETH 51301,HMRT 51301,PHIL 51200