An interdisciplinary exploration of current topics in women's studies. Three topics are offered 2010/2011. Students may take one, two, or three sections for credit. Topics for Fall 2010: Section A1: Superwomen, Cyborgs, Vampires: Bodily Transformations and Social Change. Examines popular figures that cross gender, sexual, racial, and human boundaries, challenging our ideas about those social categories. Are these figures metaphors for feminism, gay rights, racial equality? Readings in sociology and psychology, science fiction, and other pop genres. Section B1: Performing Gender: Drama, Dance, Film, and Feminism. History of women as performers and representations of gender on stages from antiquity to the present. Also offered as CAS EN 326. Topic for Spring 2011: Middle Eastern Women Write. Exploration of feminist movements in the Middle East through works of literature. The impact on gender of colonialism, revolution, and migration.

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