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WGS.303

Gender: Historical Perspectives

3-0-9 units. HASS-H · Undergraduate

See description under subject 21H.109[J] .

Fall 2020

Topics

  • Introduction and course overview
  • What is history and how does it work?
  • The role of agency in historical explanation: Why do people use skin lighteners?
  • Why do we have Women’s & Gender Studies departments and when did they come into existence?
  • How have race and gender intersected around the issue of lynching in US history?
  • How do we read primary sources to deepen our understanding?
  • Guest lecturer: Dr. Susan Ware
  • Guest lecturer: Prof. Mona Siegel , California State University, Sacramento
  • Whose birth is being controlled and who is trying to do the controlling?
  • Gender and climate change
  • When is the personal political and historical?
  • Guest lecturer: Prof. Jennifer Nez Denetdale , University of New Mexico
  • Is it a good thing that in Iran the government pays for sex-change surgeries for transpeople?
  • Why and how did the British try to eliminate third-gender/trans-women in India?
  • Why do the pictures of violated women and children mobilize men into war and the general public into “humanitarian giving”?
  • When and how did genocidal rape become an international crime?
  • How do masculine performances prove useful to populist leaders?
  • How is masculinist populism playing out today?
  • How have US leaders displayed their own machismo?
  • How has the US responded to COVID-19 and what are the gender, race, and class implications?
  • Student presentations
  • Student presentations cont’d
  • View and discuss Left on Pearl . Directed by Susan Rivo. Color and black & white, 55 min. 2017. ( Trailer )

Readings

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 21H.109[J] Subject meets with 21H.983[J] , WGS.310[J] Prereq: None U (Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H

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