Undergraduate certificate Gender and Sexuality Studies

GSS 201 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies Fall SA What does it mean to be a woman or a man? Or neither? How do gender and sexuality, those seemingly most personal and private of attributes, emerge from networks of power and social relations? This course introduces major concepts in the interdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. We will analyze the ways in which gender, as an object of study and as a lived experience, intersects with class, race, and ability, and will examine the relation between gender, sexuality and power in literary, philosophical, political and medical discourses. G. Salamon

GSS 203 Introduction to Global LGBTQ Studies (also

ANT 243

) Fall SA This course provides an interdisciplinary and transnational introduction to the study of LGBTQ lives. We address the historical emergence of LGBTQ identities and survey how these identities are experienced among different communities around the world. Through global case studies, we examine key concepts and debates in the field, including intersectionality, human rights, homonationalism, normativity, and medicalization. We analyze how LGBTQ works as a meaningful social, political, and historical category and the ways class, race, gender, and nationality intersect with and disrupt it. Staff

GSS 210 Power, Structure, and the Human Body (See DAN 210)

GSS 212 Classical Mythology (See CLA 212)

GSS 221 Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender (See SOC 221)

GSS 222 American Identities in the 21st Century (See ENG 227)

GSS 225 Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (See SOC 225)

GSS 227 Approaches and Paradigms: Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa (See NES 227)

GSS 245 Sex and Salvation in Early Christian Literature (See CLA 245)

GSS 253 Early Christian Women: From Mary Magdalene to Martyred Mothers (See REL 253)

GSS 276 Saints and Sinners: Women and the Church in Colonial Spanish America (See REL 276)

GSS 300 Gender, Sexuality, and Modernity in the Middle East (See NES 312)

GSS 302 Topics in the Study of Gender (also

LAS 314

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REL 300

) Spring SA Advanced seminar; focus changes from year to year. In general the seminar uses contemporary and classic works of feminist theory to examine ideas about gender that have shaped modern culture. Topics have included feminism and liberalism, literature and ideology, and psychoanalysis and feminism. J. Delgado

GSS 305 Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Spring EM This course is divided into four units, each unit introducing varieties of feminist engagements with bioethics, key feminist arguments and concerns, as well as contemporary debates both within feminist bioethics and regarding feminist engagement in bioethics. This course will examine the history of bioethics, as feminist critiques of its core principles-most notably autonomy-before moving on to examine debates among feminist bioethicists regarding key issues in the field. These include the importance and value of care; abortion and reproductive rights; the importance of intersectionality to bioethical analyses; and the obesity epidemic. C. Taylor

GSS 306 Women and Film (also

VIS 341

) Not offered this year LA An exploration of the relationships between the idea of "woman'' and the art of film. Issues addressed will include the role of woman as performer and director, questions of film genre, the identification of the female image as constitutive of the cinematic image, the historical and social dimensions of the female image projected in films of different times and different cultures. Film screenings, one three-hour seminar. G. Marrone-Puglia

GSS 308 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde: Bodies, Objects, Emotions, Ideas (See ITA 305)

GSS 309 Topics in Judaic Studies (See JDS 301)

GSS 310 The Family in Jewish Tradition (See JDS 315)

GSS 312 Gender and Development in the Americas (See SOC 310)

GSS 314 Dangerous Bodies: Cross-Dressing, Asia, Transgression (See EAS 314)

GSS 315 Sex on Stage Spring LA This course examines theatrical performance as a mode of theorizing about gender, sex, sexuality and embodiment. Through lecture, discussion and performance workshops, this course draws upon contemporary U.S. dramatic literature as it undertakes a multinational, historical survey of theories of performance. The course considers such topics as gender as performance, cross-gender performance, performances of sexual identity, and the explicit body in performance. B. Herrera

GSS 316 Queer Boyhoods (also

AMS 366

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THR 358

) LA This course examines enactments of youthful masculinity in U.S. popular performance with a particular eye toward accounts of variant or queer boyhoods. As we scrutinize the regimentation and valorization of specific boyish behaviors, we will explore the cultural impact of non-normative youthful masculinities (ie. sissies, tomboys, bois, punks, transguys, etcetera) as we also assess the place of queer boyhoods in American life. Course readings will be historical, literary and theoretical, with play scripts, films, memoirs and literature for young readers functioning as primary objects for the course's analytic project. B. Herrera

GSS 317 Sexuality, Public Culture and Medicine in East Asia (See EAS 306)

GSS 319 U.S. Women Writers (also

AMS 320

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ENG 436

) Fall LA An exploration of the literary works of women writers in the United States with an emphasis on the role gender has played and continues to play in the development of literary movements and genres. Our examination of both canonical and non-canonical writings will focus on the formation of feminist literary conventions in the 19th century and their transformations in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our reading will include romantic tales, ghost stories, realistic stories, novels of immigration, thrillers, works for children, autobiographical mythmaking, poetry, and graphic novels. A. Bendixen

GSS 320 Topics in Medieval Greek Literature (See CLA 320)

GSS 321 Topics in German Medieval Literature (See GER 321)

GSS 323 American Jews and Sexual Freedom (See AMS 335)

GSS 328 Women and Gender in Islamic Societies (See REL 328)

GSS 329 Psychology of Gender (See PSY 329)

GSS 330 The Invention of Literature and Culture in France (See FRE 321)

GSS 331 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World (See CLA 329)

GSS 332 Queer Sexualities: Biopsychosocial and LGBT Perspectives Spring SA Queer Sexualities is an interdisciplinary course, which intertwines the study of human sexuality from scientific and public health perspectives with queer academic writing about sexual orientation and gender. Through the lenses of human sexuality theory, social science and medical perspectives, biological and sexual functioning, and LGBT history and subcultures, this course will explore the many ways in which queer sexualities, identities, and relationships are constructed, expressed, and regulated. D. Bazarsky

GSS 336 Crime, Gender, and American Culture (also

AMS 436

) Fall LA An exploration of the ways in which gender and crime are intertwined in some of the most significant and popular works of American fiction. Our analysis of the aesthetic, cultural, and psychological dimensions of narratives based on crime and detection will focus on texts by both women and men with an emphasis on the capacity of gender studies to illuminate American crime fiction's recurring concern with questions of race and class, justice and power, violence and victimhood. A. Bendixen

GSS 337 Gender Crossings in American Musical Theater (also

MTD 302

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THR 347

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AMS 336

) Fall LA This course offers an intensive survey of gender crossings on the American musical theater stage. The course's study of American musicals (in terms of form, content and context) will be anchored in a historical exploration of world theatrical traditions of cross-gender performance. The course will examine multiple modes of cross-gender performance, while also considering musicals that stage gender role reversals and those that open questions of gender expression and identity. B. Herrera

GSS 338 Science Fiction and Fact (See AMS 301)

GSS 339 Black, Queer, Jewish Italy (See ITA 322)

GSS 341 Women, Music, and the Stage (See MUS 341)

GSS 343 Global Feminisms: Feminist Movements in the Middle East and Beyond (See NES 374)

GSS 344 Sex in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (See REL 344)

GSS 345 Pleasure, Power and Profit: Race and Sexualities in a Global Era (also

AAS 355

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ENG 399

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AMS 373

) Fall EM Pleasure Power and Profit explores the intimate ways that sexualities and race are entwined in contemporary culture, historically, and in our own lives. Why are questions about sexuality and race some of the most controversial, compelling, yet often taboo issues of our time? Exploring films, popular culture, novels, social media, and theory, we engage themes like: race, gender and empire; fetishism, Barbie, vampires and zombies; sex work and pornography; marriage and monogamy; queer sexualities; and strategies for social empowerment such as: Black Lives Matter, the new campus feminism, and global movements against sexual and gender violence. A. McClintock

GSS 346 FAT: The F-Word and the Public Body (See DAN 312)

GSS 347 Gender and Illness Experience in the United States Today (See GHP 300)

GSS 348 Corporealities of Politics (also

AMS 448

) Spring SA What do feminists of color have to say about how the social determinants of health affect our bodies? In this seminar, we will explore the ways in which feminists of color narrate the impact of multiple oppressions on their well/being. The readings begin with an overview of key concepts in women of color and transnational feminisms including but not limited to intersectionality and theory in the flesh, which we will draw on to think about the materiality of difference. T. Khanmalek

GSS 350 Topics in 19th-Century Art (See ART 343)

GSS 351 Law, Social Policy, and African American Women (See AAS 351)

GSS 354 Mexico's Tenth Muse: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (See SPA 335)

GSS 356 Caribbean Women's History (See AAS 319)

GSS 357 Empire of the Ark: The Animal Question in Film, Photography and Popular Culture (See ENV 357)

GSS 358 The Asian American Family (See ASA 347)

GSS 360 Women and American Religion (See REL 360)

GSS 361 Culture, Power, and Inequality (See SOC 361)

GSS 363 Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary U.S. Theatre and Performance (also

THR 373

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AMS 363

) Fall/Spring LA Addresses contributions by women, LGBT people, feminists, and people of color to contemporary U.S. theatre and performance. Analyzes performance forms, contents, intents, contexts, and reception to ponder how people who straddle identity vectors influence American culture and help imagine our changing nation. Surveys significant U.S. human rights movements and the performance forms through which many were vitalized. Considers how some minority groups became central to theatre culture by the 21st century and whether or not forums like Broadway dilute the radical politics in which these struggles began. J. Dolan

GSS 365 Isn't It Romantic? The Broadway Musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim (also

ENG 365

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AMS 365

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MTD 365

) Spring LA Song. Dance. Man. Woman. These are the basic components of the Broadway musical theatre. How have musical theatre artists, composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, choreographers, and designers worked with these building blocks to create this quintessentially American form of art and entertainment? This course will explore conventional and resistant performances of gender and sexuality in the Broadway musical since the 1940s. Why are musicals structured by love and romance? S. Wolf

GSS 366 Bioethics, Sex and Society in Muslim Communities (See NES 361)

GSS 368 20th Century Master (See AAS 327)

GSS 369 Writing the Body. Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction (also

ENG 334

) Spring LA The goal of this course is to help you find your unique, creative voice by writing the body. We devote each class to two things: work-shopping your stories or essays in an intimate, collaborate environment; and engaging some of the most exciting published writers of our time. A. McClintock

GSS 370 Gender, Sexuality, and Media (See VIS 369)

GSS 371 Gender and the Social History of the Pre-modern Middle East (See NES 371)

GSS 373 Graphic Memoir (also

AMS 383

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ENG 332

) Spring SA An exploration of the graphic memoir focusing on the ways specific works combine visual imagery and language to expand the possibilities of autobiographical narrative. Through our analysis of highly acclaimed graphic memoirs from the American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese traditions, we analyze the visual and verbal constructions of identity with an emphasis on the representation of gender dynamics and cultural conflict. A. Bendixen

GSS 374 Culture and International Order (See ANT 375)

GSS 376 Gender, Bodies, and Sacraments: Penitence and Eucharist in Catholic Europe and the Americas (See REL 375)

GSS 378 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Latin America (See REL 378)

GSS 380 Marriage and Monotheism: Men, Women, and God in Near Eastern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (See NES 379)

GSS 381 Crafting Freedom: Women and Liberation in the Americas (1960s to the present) (See COM 376)