Department: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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FEMGEN100C History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...
FEMGEN101 Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans, and feminist studies. Topics include social justice and feminist organizing, art and activism, feminist histories, the emergence of gender and sexuality studies in the a...
FEMGEN103 Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (Graduate Students register for PHIL 279A or FEMGEN 203) This course is an opportunity to explore a variety of historic and current feminist and queer perspectives in the arts, humanities, and social science research. NOTE: This course must be taken...
FEMGEN103S Indigenous Feminisms Seminar examines Indigenous Feminisms and the impact of colonialism on gender roles & gender relations beginning with the 17th century to the present. Topics include demographic changes; social, political & economic transformations associated with bi...
FEMGEN104 Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...
FEMGEN104A Junior Seminar and Practicum Preference to and required of Feminist Studies majors; others require consent of instuctor. Feminist experiential learning projects related to critical studies in gender and sexuality. Identifying goals, grant proposal writing, and negotiating ethica...
FEMGEN104B Senior Seminar and Practicum Required for Feminist Studies majors. Non-majors enrolled with consent of instructor. Students develop oral reports on their practicum and its relationship to their academic work, submit a report draft and revised written analysis of the practicum,...
FEMGEN105 Honors Work For honors students who are doing independent work with faculty advisors.
FEMGEN105C Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusi...
FEMGEN106Q Gender and Media From childhood, individuals are presented with texts and images about what it means to be female, what it means to be male, but rarely what it means to question that binary. These images and texts also present what it means to be in relationship with...
FEMGEN107M College Culture & Masculinity Students in this course will interrogate masculinity and its impacts on culture broadly, with a focus on college campuses. Some questions considered will include: How do structures and expectations of masculinity impact sexual assault and response to...
FEMGEN107P Momcore, Me Too, and Hook-Ups: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Politics and Practice Students bring widely varying experiences of relationships, whether romantic, familial, platonic, sexual, or professional. This course provides students an opportunity to explore how power functions in these relationships. Relying on feminist critiqu...
FEMGEN108 Internship in Feminist Studies Supervised field, community, or lab experience in law offices, medical research and labs, social service agencies, legislative and other public offices, or local and national organizations that address issues related to gender and/or sexuality. One u...
FEMGEN108A Enacting Community Liberation: Women's Community Center Campus internships are crucial forms of community-building that provide students hands-on experience with organizing, outreach, and community care. Moving from theory to praxis, the FGSS department in partnership with the Women's Community Center off...
FEMGEN108B Gender in the Arab and Middle Eastern City What are the components of gendered experience in the city, and how are these shaped by history and culture? How do meanings attributed to Islam and the Middle East obscure the specificity of women¿s and men¿s lives in Muslim-majority cities? This co...
FEMGEN109 Looking Back, Moving Forward: Raising Critical Awareness in Gender and Sports In 1972, Title IX legislation opened up a vast range of opportunities for women in sports. Since then, women's sports have continued to grow yet the fight for recognition and equality persists. Simply put, men's sports are more popular than women's--...
FEMGEN109E Global Women Leaders: Past and Present This course will introduce students to global women's history, and focus on the emergence of women political leaders in the 20th century. We will begin by looking at the history of patriarchy around the world, and then consider the growth of feminis...
FEMGEN109S Gender & Sports: Beyond Equality Speaker Series To be taken in conjunction with attendance at the Winter Quarter Gender & Sports Speaker Series. This discussion group will meet 2-3 times during the quarter. Course times will be determined at the start of Winter Quarter. For questions, email rmeis...
FEMGEN10SC LGBT History and Culture in the Bay Area Since at least World War II, the San Francisco Bay Area has served as a center for LGBTQ life in the United States. It emerged early as a place where queer people could congregate and interact more freely, but it also was frequently at the vanguard w...
FEMGEN11 Introduction to Dance Studies This class is an introduction to dance studies and the complex meanings bodily performances carry both onstage and off. Using critical frames drawn from dance criticism, history and ethnography and performance studies, and readings from cultural stud...
FEMGEN111 Queering Buddhism: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberatory Praxis Is the body we identify as a 'self' a given? How does a body that is gendered, raced, or marked as deviant become free? Like Queer studies, Buddhism has long ago recognized the constructedness of identity, and developed an impressive array of contemp...
FEMGEN111A From Colonialism to K-pop: Race and Gender in South Korean Culture Some may associate South Korea with the following: BTS, North Korean nukes, Samsung, Hyundai, Squid Games. Some may repeat what South Korea has said about itself: that it is racially homogenous, an ethnic community that can trace their ancestry back...
FEMGEN112 Passing: Hidden Identities Onscreen Characters who are Jewish, Black, Latinx, women, and LGBTQ often conceal their identities - or "pass" - in Hollywood film. Our course will trace how Hollywood has depicted"passing" from the early 20th century to the present. Just a few of our films w...
FEMGEN113 Transgender Studies Transgender and gender-expansive identities are the subject of growing attention and (often sensationalist) interest in the media as well as in the healthcare field, yet there exists a dearth of legitimate academic courses, research and writing that...
FEMGEN115A The Queer 20th Century: German LGBTQ Literature and Film What was it like to be queer in 20th-century Germany? This course examines the rich and sometimes surprising LGBTQ culture of 20th-century Germany, featuring stories that are often left out of traditional seminars. Through literature and film, we wil...
FEMGEN116 Sexual Violence in Asian America The course will make connections across historical and everyday violence on Asian American women to think about why violence against Asian women in wartime is hypervisible, yet everyday sexual violence against Asian American women is invisible. Readi...
FEMGEN117 Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s...
FEMGEN119 Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
FEMGEN121 Intro to Queer Studies This course provides an interdisciplinary grounding in historical and theoretical foundations of queer culture and theory. A critical interrogation of sex, gender, sexuality, pleasure, and embodiment will provide students with a framework for produci...
FEMGEN122 Reality Television and All Things Basic In ¿Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema¿ (1975), feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey argues that ¿the cinema poses questions of the ways the unconscious (formed by the dominant order) structures ways of seeing and pleasure in looking,¿ (804-805), co...
FEMGEN123 Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: In the Margins: Race, Gender and the Rhetoric of Science Every day a new headline alerts us to the lack of race and gender diversity in the tech sector in Silicon Valley. At the same time, science and technology are often lauded as objective systems capable of producing color- and gender-blind truths and s...
FEMGEN123G Liberatory Practice Lab: Engaging Sounds in Community This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants wil...
FEMGEN124A Do I Sound...? Identity, Technology, and Voice in Performance and Media Do I sound: Black? American? Feminine? Queer? Human? In this course we will explore the relationship between identity and technology through the voice - spoken, sung, screamed, and written. We will examine case studies spanning genres (film, popular...
FEMGEN125 Critical Feminisms in the Americas This course examines critical feminist theories, practices, and movements in the Americas. Together, we will explore, analyze, and discuss the work of creators and activists in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America, attendi...
FEMGEN125S The Rape Tax: Understanding the Financial Consequences of Sexual Assault and Trauma What are the consequences of sexual assault? How much does a sexual assault cost a person of their time, educational attainment, income, and ambitions? The goal of the course is to introduce undergraduate students to the relevant perspectives and aca...
FEMGEN125V Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo How does a groundbreaking first wave feminist theorist and novelistic innovator speak intergenerationally? Everything about #MeToo can be found in Virginia Woolf's works, from gender oppression, to the politics of women's entry into the public sphere...
FEMGEN12D Intro to English III: Latinx Literature Emerging from the demographic, political, and cultural shifts of the late twentieth century, LatinX Literature flourishes in the twenty-first century as a hemispherically American corpus of texts. Like both ChicanX and Puerto Rican literatures before...
FEMGEN131 Is Visibility a Trap (Door)? Gender, Race, and the Stakes of Representation This course examines key theoretical debates surrounding the fraught political and epistemological potential of visibility and representation. Who gets to set the premises for recognition, and how do sexuality, gender, and race affect the ways in whi...
FEMGEN132 Intersectional Feminisms This course is focused on the feminist concept of intersectionality. As a mode of Black feminist thought, lived activist practice, and interdisciplinary research methodology, intersectionality allows us to think about overlapping forms of identity an...
FEMGEN133 Transgender Performance and Performativity This course examines theater, performance art, dance, and embodied practice by transgender artists. Students will learn the history and politics of transgender performance while considering the creative processes and formal aesthetics trans artists u...
FEMGEN133M Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gende...
FEMGEN133T Transatlantic Female Modernists How did American and British women writers express their experiences of modernity? A major critical lens on modernism interrogates questions of gender and sexuality, including how women expressed the experiences of `writing as a woman during these y...
FEMGEN134D Sex, Courtship, and Marriage in America How people meet, who they date, and when they settle down have all changed dramatically in recent decades. This course will provide students with a thorough overview of demographic, sociological, and historical perspectives on sex, relationships, and...
FEMGEN135 Body Politics This weekly course facilitates conversations on issues of the body across a wide spectrum of contemporary experiences, controversies, and contexts. Informed by gender studies, critical race theory, and feminist theory, we will explore current events...
FEMGEN137 Beauty and Power Beauty functions as a form of currency that can grant access, privilege, and possibility. How do European beauty standards collude with patriarchal power to justify social inequalities? This class facilitates weekly discussions that focus on the soci...
FEMGEN138A How College Works: An Introduction to the Sociology of Higher Education This course is designed for students who want to better understand the elite 4-year college system and how inequalities are both perpetuated and ameliorated by its structure and practices (focusing on gender, race, and first generation college studen...
FEMGEN139 Trans Latinx Studies This course introduces students to the study of gender from a decolonial feminist perspective. We will study the dynamic and rapidly growing field of Trans* Latinx Studies, an interdisciplinary field whose goal is the study Latina/o/x/ Chicana/o/x ge...
FEMGEN139C American Literature and Social Justice How have American writers tried to expose and illuminate racism and sexism through fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry? How have they tried to focus our attention on discrimination and prejudice based on race, gender, ethnicity, clas...
FEMGEN13N Women Making Music Preference to freshmen. Women's musical activities across times and cultures; how ideas about gender influence the creation, performance, and perception of music.
FEMGEN140D LGBTQ History of the United States An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history i...
FEMGEN141 Activism and Intersectionality How are contemporary U.S. social movements shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality? This course explores the emergence, dynamics, tactics, and targets of social movements. Readings include empirical and theoretical social mo...
FEMGEN141B The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum...
FEMGEN142 Sociology of Gender Male, female, woman, man, feminine, masculine. We all know what gender is, right? In this course, we will critically examine the idea of gender from a sociological perspective. For the first few weeks, we will tackle the big question 'What is gender?...
FEMGEN143 One in Five: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Campus Sexual Assault CW: SA/GBV: Access the Application Consent Form Here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Ahwwcl-vQoxVod0PL9HHQg752DJlh3M/edit?usp=sharing ouid=103752650760265096645&rtpof=true&sd=true. Over the past decade the issue of campus sexual assault and ha...
FEMGEN144 Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers...
FEMGEN144X Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to c...
FEMGEN147 Feminism and Technology How can a feminist lens help us understand technology? What can technology teach us about gender? This course explores the mutual shaping of gender and technology using an intersectional feminist approach. We will draw on theories from feminist scien...
FEMGEN148 Introduction to Feminist Science and Social Justice This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Feminist Science and Technology Studies with focus on social justice. Throughout the course, students will learn to identify, describe, and question the relationships between scie...
FEMGEN150 Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, po...
FEMGEN150G Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality In this theory and practice-based course, students will examine performances by and scholarly texts about artists who critically and mindfully engage race, gender, and sexuality. Students will cultivate their skills as artist-scholars through written...
FEMGEN150J Queer Poetry and Poetics This course offers an investigation into queer poetry and poetics within a contemporary and historical framework. Undergirded by recent works from LGBTQIA poets alongside foundational scholarship, it will explore what queerness as an identity, politi...
FEMGEN150N Queer Sculpture Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal these are among the attitudes that make up queer in its contemporary usage. -David J. Getsy....
FEMGEN150Q Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Biology and Medicine This course explores and challenges the physiological basis for distinguishing human "males" and "females", expands the concepts of "intersex" beyond reproductive anatomy/physiology (i.e. beyond the genitalia), and discusses some known consequences o...
FEMGEN151 Feminist Life-Writing This course explores life-writing as a form of feminist praxis. Feminist life-writing is an art form grounded in truth-telling, activism, and self-making that emerges from the long tradition of women writing private lives. Beginning with the politici...
FEMGEN153Q Reading and Writing the Gendered Story Exploration of novels, stories, memoirs and micro-narratives in which gender plays a major role. The texts are by writers of varied genders and sexual orientations as well as varied class, racial and national backgrounds. Written assignments presen...
FEMGEN154G Black Magic: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Performance Cultures In 2013, CaShawn Thompson devised a Twitter hashtag, #blackgirlmagic, to celebrate the beauty and intelligence of black women. Twitter users quickly adopted the slogan, using the hashtag to celebrate everyday moments of beauty, accomplishment, and ma...
FEMGEN155 The Changing American Family Family change from historical, social, demographic, and legal perspectives. Extramarital cohabitation, divorce, later marriage, interracial marriage, and same-sex cohabitation. The emergence of same-sex marriage as a political issue. Are recent chang...
FEMGEN156H Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors This course explores ideas about women's bodies in sickness and health, as well as women's encounters with lay and professional healers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. We begin with healthy women and explore ideas abo...
FEMGEN156X Language, Gender, & Sexuality The role of language in the construction of gender, the maintenance of the gender order, and social change. Field projects explore hypotheses about the interaction of language and gender. No knowledge of linguistics required.
FEMGEN157P Solidarity and Racial Justice Is multiracial solidarity necessary to overcome oppression that disproportionately affects certain communities of color? What is frontline leadership and what role should people play if they are not part of frontline communities? In this course we wi...
FEMGEN159 James Baldwin & Twentieth Century Literature Black, gay and gifted, Baldwin was hailed as a "spokesman for the race", although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. This course examines his classic novels and essays as well his exciting work acros...
FEMGEN160 Performance and History: Rethinking the Ballerina The ballerina occupies a unique place in popular imagination as an object of over-determined femininity as well as an emblem of extreme physical accomplishment for the female dancer. This seminar is designed as an investigation into histories of the...
FEMGEN160M Introduction to Representations of the Middle East in Dance, Performance, & Popular Culture This course will introduce students to the ways in which the Middle East has been represented and performed by/in the 'West' through dance, performance, and popular culture in both historical and contemporary contexts. A brief look through today's me...
FEMGEN161 The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int...
FEMGEN161D Introduction to Dance Studies: Dancing Across Stages, Clubs, Screens, and Borders This introduction to dance studies course explores dance practice and performance as means for producing cultural meaning. Through theoretical and historical texts and viewing live and recorded dance, we will develop tools for analyzing dance and und...
FEMGEN162 Intersectionality and the Politics of Ballet Ballet dancers drag a long and conservative history with them each time they step onstage. Yet recently some of the most radical challenges in dance are coming from ballerinas, featuring prosthetic limbs, non-female identifying dancers en pointe, and...
FEMGEN163 Queer America This class explores queer art, photography and politics in the United States since 1930. Our approach will be grounded in close attention to the history and visual representation of sexual minorities in particular historical moments and social contex...
FEMGEN166 The Divine Feminine in India What happens when God is a woman? Is the Goddess a feminist? The Goddess, in her numerous incarnations, is foundational to much of Indian religiosity, whether Hindu, Buddhist, or even Jain¿and in turn, without her story, much of the theology and prac...
FEMGEN167 Censorship in American Art This course examines the art history of censorship in the United States. Paying special attention to the suppression of queer, Black and Latinx visual and performance art, including efforts to vandalize works and defund institutions, students will ex...
FEMGEN169 Introduction to Intersectionality "Intersectionality" is so popular, it's almost impossible to avoid: it was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2017, it was painted on signs at the Women's Marches, and it guides modern day social movement organizers. But what does intersectio...
FEMGEN173 Gender and Higher Education: National and International Perspectives This course examines the ways in which higher education structures and policies interact with gender, gender identity, and other characteristics in the United States, around the world, and over time. Attention is paid to how changes in those structur...
FEMGEN173R Introduction to Feminist Philosophy If feminism is a political practice aimed at ending patriarchy, what is the point of feminist philosophy? This course provides an introduction to feminist philosophy by exploring how important theoretical questions around sex and gender bear on pract...
FEMGEN177 Dramatic Writing: The Fundamentals Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by co...
FEMGEN179R Feminist Philosophy Feminism denotes both a political movement and a set of philosophical concerns. In this course we will focus on the latter to move to the former. The goal is to obtain a philosophical background that will allow us to analyze and understand the philos...
FEMGEN180 Gender Relations in Islam This course investigates the ways in which gender identities and relationships between men and women have been articulated, constructed, and refashioned throughout the Muslim world. Starting with problematizing the fixed notions of gender and sexuali...
FEMGEN183 Re-Imagining American Borders Borders of all kinds in this America have been tight for a long time, and the four years of the Trump regime have shown new violent dangers in such divisions in race, ethnicity, gender and class in this country. In the inordinately difficult years o...
FEMGEN186 The Art of Self-Portraits What is a self-portrait? The simple answer is that it is a portrait of the self. The complex answer is: anything that a person finds relevant to one's identity. Sometimes self-portraits are built around a positive idea, sometimes around a sense of lo...
FEMGEN187C The Evolution of the Feminist First-Person Essay, 2000-present The internet age has coincided with the rise of new and reinvented modes of nonfiction writing by women online. The feminist first-person essay (what simply goes by ¿personal essay¿ in the business) has transformed internet writing formally, politica...
FEMGEN187X Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FEMGEN188 Black Feminism and the SciFi of Octavia Butler Octavia Butler's novels often begin with the question, 'how am I going to survive?' In short order, they usually ask next: what is trying to kill me?' In Butler's hands, these two questions produce theories of power and resistance, anarchy and tyrann...
FEMGEN190W Contemporary Women Writers "Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version¿¿is this what sets contemporary women writers apart? How can we understand the relation between the radically unprecedented material such writers explore and ¿the...
FEMGEN192 Women in Contemporary French Cinema Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FEMGEN193 The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (Same as HISTORY 93. 193 is 5 units; 93 is 3 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the...
FEMGEN193S Beyond the Modern Girl: Gender, Sexuality, and Empire in Japan and Korea, 1900-1955 In the 1920s and 1930s, the fashionable and iconoclastic "modern girl" appeared in media in Tokyo, Seoul, and beyond. Yet what, if anything, did she have to do with empire? And what other gendered experiences, identities, and movements emerged alongs...
FEMGEN194 Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny, and the Law The gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States led to the consequent disenfranchisement of many voters of color. For many citizens who desire a truly representative government, SCOTUS's decision predicted the c...
FEMGEN195 Directed Reading May be repeated for credit. (Staff)
FEMGEN195X Research in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Independent research conducted under faculty or graduate student supervision. May be taken for a maximum of 3 quarters of credit.
FEMGEN196C Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia (HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and...
FEMGEN199A Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop Required of seniors in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies honors program. Participants share ongoing work on their honors theses. Prerequisite: consent of Instructor.
FEMGEN199B Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop Required of seniors in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies honors program. Particippants share ongoing work on their honors theses. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FEMGEN199C Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop Required of seniors in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies honors program. Particippants share ongoing work on their honors theses. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FEMGEN200 Doing the History of Gender and Sexuality: African Perspectives What are gender and sexuality, and how do understandings of these concepts shape human experience across time and space? This course explores major topics in the history of gender and sexuality, with a focus on Africa. Course materials examine a rang...
FEMGEN200LB Doing Labor History How do historians access lives of the laboring poor in the past? What is the archive of the working-class life? Toiling in farms, plantations, workshops, mines, factories, brothels and households, workers seldom leave behind an account of their lives...
FEMGEN201 Moving the Message: Reading and embodying the works of bell hooks In this course, we will spend time reading, discussing and embodying the work of Black feminist theorist and teacher bell hooks. hook's work focuses on practices rooted in Black feminism, the role of love in revolutionary politics, rescuing ourselves...
FEMGEN203 Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (Graduate Students register for PHIL 279A or FEMGEN 203) This course is an opportunity to explore a variety of historic and current feminist and queer perspectives in the arts, humanities, and social science research. NOTE: This course must be taken...
FEMGEN205 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte...
FEMGEN205L Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...
FEMGEN206 Global Medical Issues Affecting Women This course probes the principal issues affecting women and girls medically around the world. Through interactive discussions, guest lectures, case studies, and academic readings, students become acquainted with the most critical challenges to women'...
FEMGEN207D Transhistory Colloquium Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...
FEMGEN209 Looking Back, Moving Forward: Raising Critical Awareness in Gender and Sports In 1972, Title IX legislation opened up a vast range of opportunities for women in sports. Since then, women's sports have continued to grow yet the fight for recognition and equality persists. Simply put, men's sports are more popular than women's--...
FEMGEN20Q Making of the Modern Woman: Robots, Aliens, & the Feminine in Science Fiction What does the genre of science fiction have to say about gender identity? How are women in science fiction represented by themselves and by others? Who are women? What is gender and how is it constructed and performed? What is the relationship betwee...
FEMGEN213 Transgender Studies Transgender and gender-expansive identities are the subject of growing attention and (often sensationalist) interest in the media as well as in the healthcare field, yet there exists a dearth of legitimate academic courses, research and writing that...
FEMGEN215A The Queer 20th Century: German LGBTQ Literature and Film What was it like to be queer in 20th-century Germany? This course examines the rich and sometimes surprising LGBTQ culture of 20th-century Germany, featuring stories that are often left out of traditional seminars. Through literature and film, we wil...
FEMGEN217 Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s...
FEMGEN21R StoryCraft: Athlete Relationships What is intimacy like as an athlete? What are the stereotypes and the realities? In this class, athletic-identifying students will learn about relationships from the inside out: through an examination and telling of their lived experiences. We will e...
FEMGEN21S StoryCraft: On Relationships Do we need love? And if so, what does it look like? In this class, students will learn about relationships from the inside out: through an examination and telling of their lived experiences. We will explore various perspectives on intimacy and relati...
FEMGEN21T StoryCraft: Sexuality, Intimacy & Relationships What are the roles of sexuality, intimacy, and relationships in my life? How do I tell a compelling story? In this class, you will learn about these topics from the inside out. We will explore various perspectives on sexuality, intimacy, and relation...
FEMGEN221B The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia (History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri...
FEMGEN223Q Queer Electronic Music Composition Queer Electronic Music Composition is a creative course structured around the historical and theoretical contributions of composers from the LBGQT+ community with an emphasis on computer-based electronic music. Through a series of reading, listening,...
FEMGEN227 East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme...
FEMGEN230 Sexual Function and Diversity in Medical Disciplines This course is a coordinated seminar series that presents evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention guidelines by clinical and translational research and population health science faculty of clinical departments other than Medicine (the...
FEMGEN230A Sexual Function and Diversity in Medical Disciplines Focus is on development of personal and professional skills to interact with people across the diverse range of human sexuality, from childhood (pediatric) to older ages (geriatric), with consideration of gender identity, sexual orientation, sociocul...
FEMGEN236 Literature and Transgression Close reading and analysis of erotic-sexual and aesthetic-stylistic transgression in selected works by such authors as Baudelaire, Wilde, Flaubert, Rachilde, Schnitzler, Kafka, Joyce, Barnes, Eliot, Bataille, Burroughs, Thomas Mann, Kathy Acker, as w...
FEMGEN237 Health Impact of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse across the Lifecourse (Human Biology students must enroll in HUMBIO 124 or AFRICAAM 127. Med/Grad students should enroll in SOMGEN 237 for 1-3 units.) An overview of the acute and chronic physical and psychological health impact of sexual abuse through the perspective of...
FEMGEN239 Queer Theory Do we really need a theory in order to be queer? Queer Theory emerged in response to feminist thought, and the study of the history of sexuality, building on their insights, but also uncovering their blind spots. Without Queer Theory, few of the disc...
FEMGEN240D LGBTQ History of the United States An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history i...
FEMGEN241 Sex and Gender in Human Physiology and Disease (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 140. PhD minor in FGSS must enroll in FEMGEN 241. Med students must enroll in MED 240.) Chromosomal, hormonal and environmental influences that lead to male and female and intersex reproductive anatomy and physi...
FEMGEN242 Sociology of Gender Male, female, woman, man, feminine, masculine. We all know what gender is, right? In this course, we will critically examine the idea of gender from a sociological perspective. For the first few weeks, we will tackle the big question 'What is gender?...
FEMGEN244F Female Modernists: Women Writers in Paris Between the Wars The course will focus on expatriate women writers - American and British - who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Among them: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Margaret Anderson, Janet Flanner, Natalie Bar...
FEMGEN24B Grad Tutorial: Topics in Feminist Social Epistemology Tutorial taught by grad student. Enrollment limited to 10. Philosophical work in social epistemology recognizes that knowledge is usually dependent on a range of social institutions, practices, and relations, and considers how these social dimensions...
FEMGEN24N Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspi...
FEMGEN24Q Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders This is a creative writing course for writers of all genders who are interested in thinking about patriarchy and how to resist it. Our course will aim to complicate the idea that men benefit from patriarchy and are its primary enforcers, while the re...
FEMGEN250 Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, po...
FEMGEN250J Baldwin and Hansberry: The Myriad Meanings of Love This course looks at major dramatic works by James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Both of these queer black writers had prophetic things to say about the world-historical significance of major dramas on the 20th Century including civil rights, revol...
FEMGEN255 The Changing American Family Family change from historical, social, demographic, and legal perspectives. Extramarital cohabitation, divorce, later marriage, interracial marriage, and same-sex cohabitation. The emergence of same-sex marriage as a political issue. Are recent chang...
FEMGEN255A Black Feminism and Anti-Carceral Resistance Black feminists throughout the Western Hemisphere have long resisted carcerality, a system that emerged as a response to antebellum Black fugitivity. In this course, we will review Black feminist theory and abolitionist activism, focusing on how the...
FEMGEN255B Contested Masculinities in Modern America This course examines masculinity in the twentieth-century United States across academic disciplines. Suspending the idea that manhood is biologically fixed or innate, this course presents masculinity as socially constructed and in a state of ongoing...
FEMGEN256 Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 125. PhD minor in FGSS must enroll in FEMGEN 256. Med students must enroll in OBGYN 256.) Interdisciplinary. Focus is primarily on the U.S., with selected global women's health topics. Topics include: leading ca...
FEMGEN257X Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
FEMGEN258X Black Feminist Theater and Theory From the rave reviews garnered by Angelina Weld Grimke's lynching play, Rachel to recent work by Lynn Nottage on Rwanda, black women playwrights have addressed key issues in modern culture and politics. We will analyze and perform work written by bl...
FEMGEN25Q Queer Stories Queer Stories is a creative writing class open to any and all students, regardless of how they define their gender or sexuality. The goals of the class are to read widely in the canon of twentieth and twenty-first century queer prose literature, and...
FEMGEN260P American Protest Movements, Past and Present (History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...
FEMGEN262 Sex and the Early Church Sex and the Early Church examines the ways first- through sixth-century Christians addressed questions regarding human sexuality. We will pay particular attention to the relationship between sexuality and issues of gender, culture, power, and resista...
FEMGEN262B The Roots of Gendered Labor: Women and Work in American History This class will explore the long, tangled history of women's labor in North America. Beginning with gendered labor practices among Native Americans, West Africans, and Europeans in the seventeenth century, this class will proceed thematically and chr...
FEMGEN264S Race, Gender, Justice The question of justice animates some of the most influential classics and contemporary plays in the dramatic canon. We will examine the relationship between state laws and kinship obligations in Sophocles's Antigone. We will trace the transnational...
FEMGEN280 Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019) In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...
FEMGEN287X Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FEMGEN292 Gender in Modern South Asia Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co...
FEMGEN293E Female Divinities in China This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how...
FEMGEN295J Chinese Women's History The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disci...
FEMGEN297 Gender and Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives This course introduces students to theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to an understanding of the role of education in relation to structures of gender differentiation, hierarchy, and power. It familiarizes students with and e...
FEMGEN298C Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha...
FEMGEN299 Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). The Fall Phd Minor Workshop will explore theory and methods in anti-racist and feminist pedagogy through selected readings...
FEMGEN300J Methods for Studying Gender and Sexuality in Music Introduction to graduate-level study of gender and sexuality in music; includes feminist and queer critiques of musical canons, historiography, biography, and genius; feminist, queer, and trans perspectives on musical performance, performers, subcult...
FEMGEN305L Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...
FEMGEN307D Transhistory Colloquium Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...
FEMGEN312F Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (undergraduates enroll in 119) Most of the time, writing a pitch for a popular outlet just means writing an email. So why be intimidated? This course will outline the procedure for pitching essays and articles to popular media:...
FEMGEN312G Advanced Workshop in Pitching and Publishing for Popular Media Graduate students may self-determine a popular media project¿such as an essay, column/series of essays, podcast, agent query, or book proposal¿to be completed, with consent, under the mentorship of the Graduate Humanities Public Writing Project. Prer...
FEMGEN313 Performance and Performativity Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Bu...
FEMGEN314 Performing Identities This course examines claims and counter-claims of identity, a heated political and cultural concept over the past few decades. We will consider the ways in which theories of performance have offered generative discursive frameworks for the study of i...
FEMGEN332 Intersectional Feminisms This course is focused on the feminist concept of intersectionality. As a mode of Black feminist thought, lived activist practice, and interdisciplinary research methodology, intersectionality allows us to think about overlapping forms of identity an...
FEMGEN344F Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi...
FEMGEN357X Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
FEMGEN360P American Protest Movements, Past and Present (History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...
FEMGEN362 Comparative Methodologies in Black Gender Studies This course takes a comparative methodological approach to Black Gender Studies, introducing students to the important terms and debates that animate this field, such as Spillers' "ungendering" and Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation". We will rea...
FEMGEN36N Gay Autobiography Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a...
FEMGEN385N Transfeminism This graduate seminar explores the metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of transness, using sources from the 1970s to the present, primarily focused on the US, the UK, and Canada. Among the questions we'll investigate are: How can we theorize about...
FEMGEN387X Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FEMGEN39 Long Live Our 4Bil. Year Old Mother: Black Feminist Praxis, Indigenous Resistance, Queer Possibility How can art facilitate a culture that values women, mothers, transfolks, caregivers, girls? How can black, indigenous, and people of color frameworks help us reckon with oppressive systems that threaten safety and survival for marginalized people and...
FEMGEN395 Graduate Independent Study Students pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of an affiliated faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
FEMGEN395J Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History No Description Set
FEMGEN397 Core Colloquium in South Asian History This graduate colloquium is a foundational and intensive introduction to the field of South Asian history. It will engage with some of the major areas of research on South Asia (especially the modern period), the major conceptual frameworks deployed...
FEMGEN41Q Madwomen and Madmen: Gender and the History of Mental Illness in the U.S. This seminar explores the ways that gender and historical context shaped the experience and treatment of mental illness in U.S. history. What is the relationship between historically constructed ideas of femininity and masculinity and madness? Why ha...
FEMGEN428 Intersectional Justice in Education Policy and Practice This 3-5-unit, graduate course is designed to explore intersectionality as a "method and a disposition, a heuristic and an analytic tool" (Carbado, Crenshaw, Mays, & Tomlinson, 2013, p. 11). To do this we explore the intellectual lineage of intersect...
FEMGEN442 (Re)Framing Difference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability, Race and Culture This course uses social theories of difference to examine the intersections of disability, race and culture. The course will examine these concepts drawing from scholarship published in history, sociology of education, urban sociology, cultural studi...
FEMGEN44Q Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex and gender analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic st...
FEMGEN466A Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap...
FEMGEN53Q Writing and Gender in the Age of Disruption In this course, we will read a wide cross-section of British and American women writers who turned to fiction and poetry to examine, and to survive, their times: Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Rebecca West, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, Jessie Redmon...
FEMGEN5C Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (Same as History 105C. 5C is 3 units; 105C is 5 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focu...
FEMGEN5S Comparative Partitions: Religion, Identity, and the Nation-State This course looks at demands for representation made by religious minority communities, specifically by Indian Muslim and European Jewish intellectuals, in the twentieth century. We will explore what national belonging means from the perspective of m...
FEMGEN61 The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int...
FEMGEN62S From Runaway Wives to Dancing Girls: Urban Women in the Long Nineteenth Century This course explores the ways in which women - white and black, immigrant and native born, free and enslaved - lived and labored in American cities during the long nineteenth century. Together we will examine a variety of primary sources including di...
FEMGEN63N The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality This course explores the long history of ideas about gender and equality. Each week we read, dissect, compare, and critique a set of primary historical documents (political and literary) from around the world, moving from the 15th century to the pres...
FEMGEN6W Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Student...
FEMGEN7W Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Co...
FEMGEN82Q A History of Reproductive Rights in the US Since the late 19th century, a woman's right to control her intimate reproductive life in the United States emerged as a publicly contested arena. This conflict and the stakes for reproductive rights has never been more fraught than now, with the los...
FEMGEN90M Queer Stories Like other 90 and 91-level courses, 90M will explore basic elements of fiction and nonfiction writing. Students will read a wide variety of stories and essays in order to develop a language for working through the themes, forms, and concerns of the...
FEMGEN92L Poems of Love and Sexuality This writing-intensive workshop will explore the tradition of love poetry, paying attention to how poets have represented the amorous and the erotic in their work - powerful longing, steamy encounters, devastating break-ups - from ancient times to to...
FEMGEN93 The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (Same as HISTORY 193. 93 is 3 units; 193 is 5 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, th...
FEMGEN94Q The Future is Feminine Gender is one of the great social issues of our time. What does it mean to be female or feminine? How has femininity been defined, performed, punished, or celebrated? Writers are some of our most serious and eloquent investigators of these questions,...
FEMGEN96C Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia (HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and...
FEMGEN99 Seeds of Change This course is a required training for student leaders of the Seeds of Change initiative. This initiative takes an interdisciplinary approach to STEM education, infusing students' technical training with leadership training through a lens of gender i...