Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER ***** An introductory survey of issues in the study of women, including women's social, political, and legal status in the United States and around the world; feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction; and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY ***** This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promis what you think they are. ***** Also offered as LING 105 and FSEM 105.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES ***** Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality generally, with a particular focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. The course will look specifically at how these identities interact with other human phenomena such as government, family, popular culture, scientific inquiry, and especially gender. In exploring sexual diversity, we will highlight the complexity and variability of sexualities both across different historical periods, and in relation to identities of race, class, ethnicity, and nation. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer, Kripal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANGUAGE & SOCIETY ***** This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity and geographic variation affect language use. ***** Also offered as LING 205. ***** Instructor(s): Niedzielski

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON THE LAW ***** This course explores the ways in which law genders and is gendered. Using academic texts, popular media, and legal cases this course provides an introduction to feminist legal theory, critical race feminism, and feminist sociolegal studies. Looking at law from both local and global perspectives, we critiically engage what sociolegal scholars have called "the common place of law" and its relation to larger stuctural forces. While we focus on law in the United States, we also examine gendered perspectives on the law in international and transitional contexts. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME ***** Survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and art. Includes a study of the lives of Greek and Roman women as evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials. ***** Also offered as CLAS 225. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR ***** Survey of American women's history examines the lives of elite, working, black, Indian, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the mid-17th century through the Civil War. Topics include slavery, suffrage, sexuality, and feminism. ***** Also offered as HIST 241. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT ***** Survey of American women's history examines the lives of black, Asian American, Chicana, Native American, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status form the Civil War to the present. Topics include suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights and feminist movements. ***** Also offered as HIST 242. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION ***** This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. ***** Also offered as ASIA 240. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER ***** This course explores the relationship between women's lives, gender ideologies, and international and domestic politics and economics. We will examine women's experiences with and resistance to the sexual division of labor, imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, domestic service, war, slavery, and migration across different geographical and historical contexts. ***** Also offered as POLI 250. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This course introduces students to the history of women in the Islamic world. Topics include women and law, family relations, work, women as political actors in Islamic history, the harem as a social and political institution, women as property owners, veiling, and modern feminist movements throughout the Islamic world. ***** Also offered as HIST 283. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS ***** This course examines the significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries, from Italy and Germany to France, England, Austria, and Spain. Using various techniques and media- feminist and gender theory, reader-response theory, staging and performance, films, recordings, slides, journal entries and personal criticism, etc. to access their work, we will combine close readings with a focus on intertextuality. All works will be read in translation. ***** Also offered as ENGL 311 and MDST 300. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE ***** A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Welsh, Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material, including films. Please consult http//www.english.rice.edu for additional information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 317 and MDST 317. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN'S STORIES & LEGAL CHANGE ***** This course will consider how narratives move us toward individual responsibility and social action. We will examine this question with reference to feminist legal theory as well as some philosophical works on the powers of story-telling. Narratives we will read include published literary fiction by woman authors but also selected legal cases. ***** Instructor(s): Westphal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHAUCER ***** Focus will be primarily on "The Canterbury Tales," this philosophical and material culture, and their dramatic and literary potential. ***** Also offered as ENGL 316 and MDST 316. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE: WOMEN AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM ***** Introduction to the Nazi idea of "womanhood" and the actual roles women played during National Socialism. Female perpetrators, Mitlaufer, a multiplicity of victims, and to resistance fighters. Taught in English. For students of German (at the minimal proficiency level intermediate-mid), an additional German reading/discussion hour for credit can be arranged. ***** Also offered as GERM 327 and HUMA 327. ***** Instructor(s): Kecht

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE WOMEN WRITERS ***** An examination of selected French and Francophone women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. We will pay particular attention to the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality and class as they emerge in the literary text. ***** Also offered as FREN 319. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL WORLD ***** Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious, cultural, gender and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. ***** Also offered as RELI 323, SOCI 323, and ASIA 323. ***** Instructor(s): Klein, Long

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER ***** Relationship between gender and social role. Development of the contemporary sexual division of labor and process of socialization with reference to family, education, media, and occupations. ***** Enrollment limited to 55. ***** Also offered as SOCI 306. ***** Instructor(s): Long

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY ***** This course will teach students the important influences and consequences of American family life. We will consider issues such as dating, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, family structure, gay marriage, domestic violence, and household labor. We will also examine the role of society in shaping family norms and constraints on family behaviors. ***** Also offered as SOCI 334. ***** Instructor(s): Heard.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS ***** Topics vary from year to year. ***** Also offered as ENGL 380. ***** Instructor(s): Comer. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN GENDERS ***** Course examines diversity of Latin American cultures and gender relations from modern urban societies to Indian peasant villages. ***** Also offered as HIST 328. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST ***** Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 369. ***** Instructor(s): Comer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COURTSHIP, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY ***** The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from the German lands. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. ***** Also offered as MDST 335, WGST 330 and HUMA 330. ***** Instructor(s): Westphal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER ***** Overview of research and theory on gender in psychology. ***** Also offered as PSYC 331. ***** Instructor(s): Hebl

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEX,SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE ***** An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings. It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient problemization of desire and self-control. ***** Also offered as ANTH 325. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASCULINITIES ***** This course deals with masculinities in the West, concentrating on concepts of masculine protagonism and personhood. Readings explore identities constructed in realms such as law, politics, finances, art, the home, and war. ***** Also offered as ANTH 311. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LIFECYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW ***** The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. ***** Also offered as ANTH 388. ***** Instructor(s): Georges

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH ***** Explores ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned phenomena. Emphasizes history as a statement of cultural values as well as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality. ***** Also offered as ANTH 308. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY ***** This course is an introduction to feminist philosophy, including texts by both historical and contemporary thinkers (e.g. Wollstonecrat, Mill, de Beauvoir, MacKinnon, Gilligan, Irigaray). We shall discuss both feminists' radical critiques of traditional values and beliefs, and feminist alternative views of justice, ethical judgment, and truth. ***** Also offered as PHIL 319. ***** Instructor(s): Zuckert

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION (ENRICHED VERSION) ***** This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. ***** Also offered as ASIA 340. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND POLITICS ***** Examination of politics through the lens of gender hierarchy. Emphasis on how the constructions of masculinity and feminity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices. ***** Instructor(s): Branton

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SUBJECTIVITY IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN ART AND THOUGHT ***** This course examines the intellectual history of subjectivity and its various representations in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics. In particular, we will consider the intersection of subjectivity and desire by examining the ongoing project of human self-creation through aesthetics, ornament, framing devices, technological apparatuses, and other supplementary objects of desire within traditional humanist discourses to recent "posthumanist" narratives. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN WRITERS: 1400-1900 ***** A survey of major British early women writers. Poems, memoirs, plays, and novels by significant women, and their film adaptations. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 319. ***** Instructor(s): Chance

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM ***** Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the distribution of cultural models. ***** Also offered as ANTH 327. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKES (MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE) ***** Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. The course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account aesthetic particularities, gender commitment, and post- feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films are subtitled in English. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. ***** Also offered as GERM 321, HUMA 321, HART 385. ***** Instructor(s): Eifler.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, & THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ***** This course will examine a range of subjects within the history, theory, and criticism of photography, including the relationship between commodification, eroticism, and the objectification of the body, and the intersecting issues of mechanical reproduction, authorship, and authenticity in modern and postmodern discourses. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Also offered as HART 365. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE ***** Topics vary from year to year. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 366. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN FEMINISM, PACIFICISM, ENVIRONMENTALISM ***** Also offered as ENGL 367. ***** Instructor(s): Comer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MYTHOLOGIES ***** This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to a variety of world mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, and modern (Borges, Philip Glass). ***** Also offered as ENGL 309 and MDST 368. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY & FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART ***** This course will examine literal and symbolic representation of the body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions on beauty vs. subjective fragmentation; the performance nature of social identity; and art history's long-standing preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. ***** Also offered as HART 369. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ***** This course traces, through various genres and themes, African American literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Attention is given to theories and critiques of African American literature and culture. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 370. ***** Instructor(s): Fultz.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION: THE 19TH CENTURY NOVEL ***** A survey of the genres of the 19th-century novel, this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the period. ***** Also offered as ENGL 342. ***** Instructor(s): Michie, Patten.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE, SECURITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ***** Course addresses theories of risk society and their relationship to concepts of culture, gender, security, and human rights-based social movements. It addresses contemporary reorganizations of domestic, cultural, and geopolitical space and also examines the increasingly intense discussions surrounding 'cultures' of fear, risk, safety, civility, governance, biopolitics, and rights. ***** Also offered as ANTH 380, HIST 380. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Chivens.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURAL STUDIES ***** Topics vary from year to year. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 387 and HART 387. ***** Instructor(s): Levander, Ostherr

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE ***** An interdisciplinary survey of Generation X in literature, music, film, and politics. ***** Also offered as ENGL 389. ***** Instructor(s): Comer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISPANIC CINEMA **** This course examines the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America have represented the cultural contexts of their countries. Focus is on the theme of power, and on the consequences on social and individual lives. ***** Also offered as SPAN 390. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOGY & VISUAL CULTURE ***** In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual culture and the history of art, as well as to the interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. ***** Also offered as HART 391. ***** Enrollment limited to 10. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan, Shehabuddin.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF SEXUALITY IN AMERICA ***** Course surveys four centuries of the social, cultural, political, and legal history of sex and sexuality in America. Seeking o challenge conventional interpretations of the history of sexuality as a movement from the repressed days of Puritan America to the more liberated, modern ideals of the 20th century. ***** Also offered as HIST 390. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Foster

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST KNOWLEDGES ***** In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE ***** This course examines women's roles in Chinese literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition. ***** Also offered as ASIA 399. ***** Instructor(s): Qian

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN MODERN FICTION ***** This course will explore the construction of racial, sexual, gendered, and ethnic identities in modern fiction, with a particular concern for the connections among identity, literary form, and social categories of meaning. Readings include Woolf, Colette, Duras, Carter, Djebar, Morisson, Winterson, Baraoui, and others. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AUSTEN ONLY ***** This course will try to come to terms with Jane Austen as author and icon. Material will include all her fiction as well as portions of her letters and biography. Recent film and television adaptations of her novels will also be critically examined. ***** Also offered as ENGL 443. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LITERARY & HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN ***** Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. ***** Also offered as FREN 410 and MDST 410. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312, or AP credit, or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE **** Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Readings from Mme. de Lafayette, Baudelaire, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with emphasis on the constitution of the "feminine" in literary texts as cultural, historical, and social artifact. ***** Also offered as FREN 460. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311, 312, or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Harter.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCILINGUISTICS ***** Topic: Issues of language and gender, race and class. The course will begin with an overview of contemporary sociolinguistic theory and methodologies. We will then examine the linguistic consequences to speakers of their membership in groups, defined in terms of gender, race, and class. ***** Also offered as LING 415. ***** Instructor(s): Niedzielski.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN & GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE ***** Examination of the political and cultural discussions of the "Woman Question" in 19th-century Europe. Includes the role of public and private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, gender equality in the context of 19th-century socialist movements, and the challenges to gender identity posed by cultural modernism. ***** Also offered as HIST 349. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST ECONOMICS ***** This is an introductory course covering a range of theoretical and policy issues in contemporary feminist economics. Topics include: the social construction of economic knowledge; disciplinary debates; global economic issues relating to gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; economic justice; children and family policy; unpaid work; inequities in pay, wealth, and resources; and gender budgets. No prior training in economics is required. Offered with additional work as WGST 522. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Strassmann.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: QUEER THEORY ***** What is queer theory and why is it important? This course aims to answer these questions by examining key issues in queer theory and situating them in the context of major literary and cultural theories of the past quarter century. As such the course will also serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory, poststructualism, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, film studies and recent work on the relationship between science and literature. ***** Also offered as ENGL 498. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA ***** Topics will include emergence of Indian Muslim society; Muslim responses to colonialism and the movement for Pakistan; and the role of Islam in politics in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Requires no prior knowledge of Islam or South Asia. ***** Also offered as HIST 432 and ASIA 432. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY ***** The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important problems of contemporary feminist theories in French. We will focus on the interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory. Readings (in English) will include Beauvoir, Irigaray, Djebar, and Brossard. This course specifically intends to expose the fundamentals of French feminist theory as they apply to the broader spectrum of contemporary feminist thought and philosophy. Course will be offered in translation. ***** Also offered as FREN 434. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE ***** The portrayal of women in major works of Russian literature, with particular attention paid to the women writers' presentation of women. No knowledge of Russian required. ***** Also offered as RUSS 420. ***** Instructor(s): Thompson.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FAMILY INEQUALITY ***** This is an intensive, upper-level seminar focused on aspects of inequality concerning American families. We will discuss how well-known modes of inequality such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class affect individual families, as well as how families serve as agents of inequality along these lines. ***** Also offered as SOCI 440. ***** Prerequisite(s): WGST 325. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Heard.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DISEASE AND DIFFERENCE: THE BODY IN VISUAL CULTURE ***** This course examines the history of visual representations of disease in photography, cinema, and digital media. We will consider how nationally, racially, and sexually marked bodies constitute an iconography of social and organic contamination. Topics include early cinema, colonialism, photography, eugenics, immigration, science fiction, and Internet viruses. ***** Also offered as HART 486 and ENGL 458.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK WOMEN WRITERS ***** Topics vary from year to year. ***** Also offered as ENGL 470. ***** Instructor(s): Fultz Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL ISLAM WOMEN AND GENDER ***** Examination of the legal position and social realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes the family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygamy, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in both the military and in certain religious institutions). ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as MDST 438 and HIST 438. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST SOCIAL THOUGHT ***** Study of feminist theory as critique and reconstruction. Includes Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir, as well as contemporary debates about equity, difference, knowledge, sexuality, and power. ***** Also offered as SOCI 395. ***** Instructor(s): Long

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 2OTH CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN LATER 20TH CENTURY U.S. LITERATURE ***** Course varies from year to year. ***** Also offered as ENGL 462. ***** Instructor(s): Lurie. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND HEALTH ***** This course will examine the relationship between gender and health, both physical and mental. We will begin the semester by examining issues related to gender and health in the U.S., and spend the second half of the semester examining gender and health in an international context. Permission of instructor required for registration. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as SOCI 465. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Gorman.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND THE U.S. WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN POVERTY ***** This seminar in the history of women and welfare focuses on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare system and investigates how welfare has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Compares American programs to similar programs developed in other countries. ***** Also offered as HIST 468. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEX, SANCTITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saints, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationship to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. ***** Also offered as RELI 480. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal, Parsons.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY ***** Also offered as ENGL 382. ***** Instructor(s): Lurie

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMS IN CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY ***** The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important problems of contemporary feminist theory. We will focus on the interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory. ***** Prerequisite(s): WGST 101, 201, or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950S ***** This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy relationship between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, and issues of voyeurism, eroticism, the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Also offered HART 485. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Open to SWG majors only. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY ***** Hours variable, 1-3 hours. Internship will be arranged individually at the request of students; details must be approved by the director. Students will also be required to submit a paper of between 8-15 pages (depending on the amount of credit) that demonstrates their ability to apply critically their knowledge of women's and gender students. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of SWG Director required. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: DIRECTED READING ***** Hours variable 1-3 hours. Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member with permission of the instructor. May count only once toward major requirements. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RESEARCH IN STUDY OF WOMEN GENDER ***** Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG majors only. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER ***** Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG majors only. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN & GENDER ***** Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG majors only.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINSIT DEBATES ***** This course identifies and traces three streams of thought by debates about major issues in women's studies. While the content of these streams will vary, the course will always be attentive to the historical and theoretical context of the debates in question and to the intersection of these debates with others. Topics might include: public and private spheres; the relation between the local and the global links between gender and sexuality; the problem of identity; the relation between activist and academic feminism. ***** Instructor(s): Michie, Westphal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER, THE DISCIPLINES, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ***** This course examines the relation between women's studies and the traditional disciplines. Topics include: disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and multidisciplinarity; the institutional place of women's studies; pedagogy in women's studies; and the relation of women's studies to area, global, ethinic, race, and sexuality studies. Students will produce a women's studies intro course syllabus and a paper to deliver at an interdisciplinary women's studies conference. ***** Prerequisite(s): WGST 501.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS ***** A survey of major continental European women writers, among them mystics, philosophers, scientists, and court-poets, in translation and in Middle English, from the 5th to the 15th centuries with attention to feminist gender and reader-response theory. ***** Also offered as ENGL 517. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE ***** Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 520. ***** Instructor(s): Skura

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST ECONOMICS (ENRICHED VERSION) ***** This is an introductory course covering a range of theoretical and policy issues in contemporary feminist economics. Topics include: the social construction of economic knowledge; disciplinary debates; global economic issues relating to gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; economic justice; children and family policy; unpaid work; inequities in pay, wealth, and resources; and gender budgets. No prior training in economics is required. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Strassmann

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READING IN WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY ***** Also offered as HIST 523. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE ***** Graduate version of WGST 332. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VICTORIAN FICTION ***** Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. Different topics may be repeated for credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: WOMEN GENDER EUROPE BEYOND ***** Graduate seminar examining recent work in key areas of research on women and gender; nationalism; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics, feminism, class, and family. Setting will include colonial and national Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. ***** Also offered as HIST 545. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE ***** Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional information. Different topics may be repeated for credit. ***** Also offered as ENGL 546. ***** Instructor(s): Lamos

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY ***** Graduate readings seminar. Content varies. ***** Also offered as HIST 551. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE VARIATION ***** Topics vary from semester to semester. For this semester, we will take a move in depth look at language variation as it relates to gender and ethnicity. We will examine such variation from both quantitative and qualitative stand points. ***** Also offered as LING 556. ***** Instructor(s): Niedzielski.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: TOPICS IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY ***** Graduate research seminar in U.S. women's history designed to introduce students to a growing body of literature on women and gender that is changing the way historians understand American history more broadly. By considering a variety of new scholarship participants are introduced to the major questions that have engage feminist historians for decades, as well as new questions that are just now beginning to shape the field. ***** Also offered as HIST 576. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL WORLD ***** Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious cultural, gendered and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. ***** Instructor(s): Klein

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saints, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationship to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. ***** Also offered as RELI 580. ***** Instructor(s): Kripal, Parsons.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURAL STUDIES ***** Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 581. ***** Instructor(s): Lurie.

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER ***** Course serves both as an introduction to postcolonial theory and as a reevaluation of its political and ethical end vis-a-vis recent debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism. Please consult http://www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 585. ***** Instructor(s): Joseph