Course Number: CAS WS 305

Title: Critical Issues in Women`s Studies

Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of current topics in women`s studies. Three topics are offered in 2009/2010; students may take one, two, or three sections for credit. Topics for Fall 2009: Section A1: Feminism: Past, Present, Future. Assesses what feminism has accomplished in the U.S. so far and explores what is left to do. Particular focus on sexual mores and practices as areas affecting women’s and men`s identities and degrees of freedom, the conflict between work and family, and body troubles. Section B1: Performing Women: Drama, Dance, Film, and Feminism. History of women as performers and representations of gender on stages from antiquity to the present. This section is also offered as CAS EN 326 A1. Topic for Spring 2010: Identities in Motion: Turkish and British Women Write One Another. Exploration of pivotal questions, related to the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, through readings of travel narratives by European and Ottoman women. This section is also offered as CAS LL 381 A1.

Credits: 4