GWS 395

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Intermediate Topics GWS

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Credit: 3 hours.

Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 9 hours; may be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours.

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GWS 395 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
62593	Lecture-Discussion	DG	9:30AM -11:50AM	TR	133 1207 W Oregon	Glisch-Sanchez, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/19/15-12/09/15 Section Title: Queer Latinidades Section Info: Meets w/LLS 396, CRN: 64796 - In the last 20 years, scholars and activists have shown how "queerness" is more than just another word for "gay" and "lesbian." Instead we now know "queerness," although always interested in questions of sexuality, is concerned with all identities that exist out of the mainstream, that lie outside of what is considered "normal." Therefore, this course is interested in those Latina/o identities that run against White and Latina/o mainstream sensibilities. Both dominant White culture and mainstream Latina/o communities have notions of appropriate and/or authentic Latina/o identities. This class critiques mainstream constructions of Latinidad by focusing in particular on Latinidades that exist in the margins of margins, like locas (effeminate gay Latinos), machas (butch lesbian Latinas), poor Latina mothers, trans* Latinas/os, Latina/p sex workers, and indigenous and Afro-Latinidades
51986	Lecture-Discussion	MN	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	215B David Kinley Hall	Nguyen, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Activism & Advocacy Section Info: Topic: Activism and Advocacy This course examines how twentieth and twenty-first century feminisms have been forged through and challenged by activism and advocacy. Using both national and transnational frames, our investigation will be guided by the following questions: How have contemporary feminisms defined what counts as activism and how we imagine the political? How are invocations of "women's rights as human rights" made meaningful? What possibilities and limitations does the professionalization of feminist movements produce? Which definitions of "violence" are reified, and which definitions marginalized, in feminist campaigns, and why? What do we mean by "equality" and "empowerment," and through what means do we produce these as ideal solutions but also as practical problems? How can feminist theorists, organizers, and anti-development activists today work together to create fair and just transnational critical discourses and practices that will make us more free, and just what do we mean by "free"? In asking these and other similar questions, we will develop an interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of feminist studies of activism and advocacy.
64876	Lecture-Discussion	NP	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	222 David Kinley Hall	Paik, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Title: Prison, Race, and Terror Section Info: Topic:"Prison, Race, and Terror." Meets with AAS 390, Sec. NP (CRN 51335) & LLS 396, Sec. NP (CRN 64012). The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In addition to the 2.5 million people imprisoned under the criminal justice system, the U.S. government captures even more people into carceral spaces within and beyond its borders. This course examines the U.S. prison regime?manifested not only in the prison as a physical place or institution, but also enacted in active practices that seek to shore up state authority by exercising extraordinary power over inmates.Reading scholarship in critical ethnic studies, particularly regarding U.S. prisons, immigration, and warfare, we will examine three areas of U.S. imprisonment?criminal justice, immigrant detention, and martial imprisonment. We will focus on narratives told from the perspectives of prisoners?in autobiographies, documentary films, and testimonies.