GWS 490

Fall 2007 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Oct 15-Dec 7

Seminar in Women's Studies

Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Interdisciplinary seminar on special topics in women's studies.

3 undergraduate hours. 2 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated one time if topic varies. Prerequisite: GWS 250 or GWS 260, and two courses in Gender and Women's Studies at the 200-300 levels; junior standing; or consent of instructor.

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GWS 490 class schedule data for fall 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	50460	Lecture-Discussion	KD3	4:30PM -5:50PM	MTW	Foreign Languages Building	Dorr, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/15/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender, Race & Nation - Meets with GWS 50461. This section for Undergrads only. This seminar offers a comparative, interdisciplinary survey of theory, film and fiction concerned with nation-building and state formation processes in the 19th and 20th century Americas. Course readings and class discussion will be guided by specific attention to how socially constructed categories of difference�particularly gender, race and sexuality�shape how claims of national belonging are materially and ideologically structured. Employing a feminist, anti-racist theoretical framework, we will grapple with the following questions: How might we theorize the relationship between structures of white supremacy and patriarchy and the (re)production of the imperial and/or postcolonial nation? How are the boundaries of the modern nation-state shaped, transformed, and contested by competing raced and gendered claims of nationalist, transnationalist, and diasporic claims of belonging? If, as many pundits argue, we are currently experiencing a �decline of the nation-state,� then what ghosts of nationalism continue to haunt the raced and gendered structures, states, and citizens of late capitalist globalization?
	50461	Lecture-Discussion	KD4	4:30PM -5:50PM	MTW	Foreign Languages Building	Dorr, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/15/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender , Race & Nation - meets with GWS 50460. This section is for Grad Students only. This seminar offers a comparative, interdisciplinary survey of theory, film and fiction concerned with nation-building and state formation processes in the 19th and 20th century Americas. Course readings and class discussion will be guided by specific attention to how socially constructed categories of difference�particularly gender, race and sexuality�shape how claims of national belonging are materially and ideologically structured. Employing a feminist, anti-racist theoretical framework, we will grapple with the following questions: How might we theorize the relationship between structures of white supremacy and patriarchy and the (re)production of the imperial and/or postcolonial nation? How are the boundaries of the modern nation-state shaped, transformed, and contested by competing raced and gendered claims of nationalist, transnationalist, and diasporic claims of belonging? If, as many pundits argue, we are currently experiencing a �decline of the nation-state,� then what ghosts of nationalism continue to haunt the raced and gendered structures, states, and citizens of late capitalist globalization?