G598: Feminist Theory: Classic Texts & Founding Debates (3 credits)

This course explores what are considered some of the founding texts of contemporary feminist theory.  These works ask basic questions about identity, ethics, knowledge, sexuality, etc.  Such works have emerged in relation to a variety of theoretical discourses, such as Marxism, structuralism, cultural studies, and others.  We will examine the intellectual history of feminist theory and its resonance with more recent trends in gender studies.  As an advanced class, I expect a familiarity with the basic tenets of Anglo-American feminist theory.

Seminar M 10:00-12:30                      Instructor: Maher, J (section 29971)   MME139

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G600: Concepts of Gender (3 credits)

This course introduces historical, theoretical, behavioral, philosophical, scientific, multi- and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and its meanings, exploring its disciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and implications. Attention is given to the emergence of the category “gender” itself, and its variable applications to different fields of knowledge, experience, cultural expression, and institutional regulation. The class will be taught as seminar.  Readings are to be done before class so that you may fully participate in the discussion.

This course deals with aspects of human sexuality and gender in a straight-forward and explicit manner. If this is a problem for you, please do not take this course.

Seminar W 2:00-4:30 pm                    Instructor: Frazier, L (section 7940)               MME 139

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G695: Graduate Readings and Research in Gender Studies (3 credits)

Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu).

This course exists to enable Ph.D. Major and Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member who does research in the student's area of interest supervises study. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration and in consultation with a faculty member and the Chair of Gender Studies.

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G696: Research Colloquium in Gender Studies (1-3 credits)

Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu).

This course exists to enable Ph.D. Major and Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member who does research in the student's area of interest supervises study. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration and in consultation with a faculty member and the Chair of Gender Studies.

Lecture: 1:00 -2:15 pm –R– Instructor: Doty (section : 16981/18758)                      MME 139

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G700: Sexualized Genders/Gendered Sexualities (3 credits)

This course engages students with complex debates around sex, gender, sexuality, and the body that push beyond binary models reliant on a simple “nature/culture” distinction.  Drawing heavily on queer theory, sexuality studies, and trans theory, we scrutinize the collision, intersection, and interaction between theories of gender and theories of sexuality.  Rather than attempt to “bring it all together,” we will instead provoke continued debate about the complicated relationship between gender, gendered identities, sexuality, sexual “identities,” racialized bodies and identities and forms of power and coercion.

Lecture:  R 10:00-12:30 pm                            Instructor: Walters, S (section: 29889)                       MME 139

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G701/498: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender, Medicine and the Body

How do medicine and the body interact with culture? What kinds of relationships exist between gender, medicine, and culture?  This course will examine the intersection of perhaps the most important medical journeys with gender and the body.  Changing gender. Altering the body.  Psychiatric conditions that play with the mind and the body.  The disabled body.  Body sculpture.  Etc.  Students will have a chance to explore the exciting collections of The Kinsey Institute.

Seminar T 8:45-10:45 am                    Instructor: Malti-Douglas, F (section 12027) MME 139

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G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (4 credits)
Topic:  Global Feminisms

“Global Feminisms,” joint-listed in English, History, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies, will be an inter-disciplinary course on key debates involving the status of women and feminist agency internationally. Organized around keywords such as “Gender,” “Subalternity,” “Resistance,” “Citizenship,” “Sexuality, ” and “Colonialism,” the course explores these terms in different geopolitical contexts such as Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East. Our aim is to identify patriarchal paradigms that might be similar in these regions even as we engage with the specificities of the histories of different geographies. Our course materials will draw from feminist theory, feminist historiography, novels and films.  Students should expect to engage actively in class discussion and produce papers that engage each these debates in a transnational/comparative framework, making use of the interdisciplinary theoretical tools offered in the course.  Our readings will include Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases; Joan Scott, Parite!; Meghan De La Hunt, In the Casa Azul; Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India; Sahar Khalifa, Wild Thorns;  Margaretta D’Arcy, Tell Them Everything; as well as selections from books and articles by scholars such as Rajeshawari Sunder Rajan, Gayle Rubin, Geoff Eley, Nira Yuval-Davis, Dan Haley, and Carol Pateman.

And the listing in the HIST dept:

HIST-H 661  COLLOQ IN GENDER & SEXUALITY (4 CR)
11678 RSTR     03:35P-05:30P   M      BH 221    Bucur-
Deckard M

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G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender, Education & Development

This course is for graduate students interested in engaging in multi-disciplinary analysis of relationships among gender, education, the ethics of cross-cultural and international research, global and international learning, and the politics and practice of international development.  The course welcomes reflective and sustained thinking about the relationship between gender and educational theory and practice in a diversity of contexts.  Through readings, discussions, and guest lectures we will explore our own relationships to educational practice and research, and the relationships among education, schooling, international development, and gender relations in different regions and countries. We will read and discuss relevant studies in anthropology, economics, history, and sociology, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of education, development and gender studies.  We will critically evaluate these studies (and our own experiences) in order to build a comprehensive understanding of current debates and policies concerning gender and education around the world, with a particular emphasis on the structures and challenges that have come to be labeled as “development.”  To promote a common analytical vocabulary for seminar participants we will discuss contrasting theoretical perspectives on gender, education, and development, including still dominant modernization frameworks as well as culturalist and feminists frameworks of critical and post-colonial theorists. We will also examine how our understandings of gender affect our research questions and methodologies and the gender frameworks used by governments, NGOs and international organizations.  Basic gender and development theories include Women in Development (WID), Gender and Development (GAD), and capabilities theorists, such as Martha Nussbaum.  A unifying theme throughout the semester will be consideration of the ethics of doing research.

Lecture M 1:00-3:45 pm                     Instructor: Ross, H (section 29712)    ED 3284

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G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender, Race & Science in American Society

This course examines the role of science and medicine in the construction of race in America’s past and present. Students will interrogate the development of scientific authority over race as well as contestation and challenges to racial science. Other themes include health disparities, the racial coding of disease, and the implications of recent trends in genetic science. Throughout the course, particular attention will be paid to the intersection of race with other categories of human difference, such as gender, sexuality, and class, in American science.

Lecture: W 12:30-3:00 pm                  Instructor: Stein, M (section 30258)               TBA

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G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: The Cultural Study of Bodies & Embodiment

This class is designed to introduce and engage with two overlapping fields of study: cultural studies and feminist theories about the body and embodiment.  Starting first with more conventional literature that helps situate the various meanings of cultural studies (using such theorists as Stuart Hall, Angela McRobbie, and Antonio Gramsci), we will then turn to more specific theorizations of the social meanings of the body, as inflected through the discursive lens of interdisciplinary feminist scholars such as Susan Bordo, Iris Marion Young, Elizabth Grosz, and Victoria Pitts-Taylor.  We will also trouble the often Western-centric focus of cultural studies and sometimes feminist studies by being particularly attentive to bodily ontologies in non-Western contexts, in specific relation to gender, sex and sexuality.  Themes will include: moral panic and the obesity “crisis”, plastic surgery, “othered” bodies, and body modification practices.

Lecture: T 3:30-6:00 pm                     Instructor: Weber, B (section 12029)             MME 139

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G702: Researching Gender Issues (3 credits)

Research methodologies and approaches relevant to Gender Studies are explored, with students applying them to a particular scholarly project. The impact of Gender Studies on epistemological and methodological issues in a variety of academic disciplines is examined according to student/instructor backgrounds and interests. The course provides candidates with an overview of research tools, methods, techniques, approaches, paradigms, and theoretical contributions pertinent to research related to gender issues.

Lecture: W 9:00am-11:30 am             Instructor: Johnson, C (section: 27762)                                 MME 139

 

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G899: PhD Thesis (3 credits)

Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu).

This course exists to enable Ph.D. Major and Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member who does research in the student's area of interest supervises study. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration and in consultation with a faculty member and the Chair of Gender Studies.

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