# Classes [ Office Hours arrow\_circle\_right ](http://signup.com/go/YGMXcFj) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 10 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 10 results ### Spring, 2021 [### Leaning In, Hooking Up: Visions of Feminism and Femininity in the 21st Century ](/class/leaning-hooking-visions-feminism-and-femininity-21st-century) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/39658) 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... ### Fall, 2020 [### Domestic Witness: "At Home" for Better or Worse ](/class/domestic-witness-home-better-or-worse) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 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... ### Fall, 2018 [### The History of Sexualities in the Modern West ](/class/history-sexualities-modern-west) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 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... ### Spring, 2017 [### The History of Feminism: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Rights ](/class/history-feminism-narratives-gender-race-and-rights) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2017 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/20176) 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... ### Fall, 2017 [### Women in Literature: A Home in the Word ](/class/women-literature-home-word) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 [### Body Contests: From Pageants to Playoffs ](/class/body-contests-pageants-playoffs) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 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... ### Spring, 2015 [### Early American Literature: Ideals, Revolutions, Revisions ](/class/early-american-literature-ideals-revolutions-revisions) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2015 Class Materials: class wiki ### Fall, 2015 [### Women of Color and Feminism: The Literature and Theory of Gender, Race, and Power ](/class/women-color-and-feminism-literature-and-theory-gender-race-and-power) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2015 ### Fall, 2014 [### Women in Literature: Home and Self ](/class/women-literature-home-and-self) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2014 Class Materials: Women in Literature: Home and Self ### Fall, 2011 [### Multicultural American Literature: 20th-century Identities ](/class/multicultural-american-literature-20th-century-identities) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2011