Classes

Featured as #11 of "63 College Classes That Give Us Hope for the Next Generation," Elle, June 2016. What does it mean to do feminism, or to be a feminist in the 21st-century United States? What can we make of the dominant social expectations for a woman's life? This course...

In the spring of 2020 many Americans were sent home by the state, to shelter in place and learn news ways of working “safely”. Others were deemed “essential workers” and forced to labor under conditions of risk. Some faced homelessness while others fled to second homes. This...

It is easy to imagine sexuality as natural, bodily, instinctual—something that emanates from the essential self. But the forms that desires and even needs take are highly specific to place and time. That is, they have histories. This course addresses sexuality within its...

This class created an interactive timeline. We also did primary-source research and wrote contributions for the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States (to be published 2020). Course description: Feminism has told a number of...

This course covers the gamut of situations in which bodily ideals (either visual or performative), and therefore gender, are competitively at stake — child sports, beauty contests for children and adults, college athletic scholarships and Title IX, cheerleading, football and...

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Class Materials: Women in Literature: Home and Self