Spring 2025 Women's Studies UN3514 section 001

HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QUESTNS

HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QU

Call Number 11526
Day & Time
Location
R 12:10pm-2:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Sarah Haley
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and
sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which
these systems of power have operated. Beginning in the early modern period, the
course seeks to destabilize contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and instead
probe how race, sexuality, and gender have functioned as mechanisms of differentiation
embedded in historically contingent processes. Moving from “Caliban to Comstock,”
students will probe historical methods for investigating and critically evaluating claims
about the past. In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the
intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of
identity by marginalized groups. This semester, we will engage research by historians
of sexuality, gender, and capitalism to critically reflect on the relationship between
critical studies of the past and debates about reproductive justice, bodily autonomy, and
gay and lesbian rights in our contemporary moment.

Web Site Vergil
Department Women's and Gender Studies
Enrollment 18 students (18 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject Women's Studies
Number UN3514
Section 001
Division Interschool
Section key 20251WMST3514V001