Gender Studies Courses Offered at UCSB
graduate courses | undergraduate
courses
History 201AF
Prof. Miescher
Provides introduction into the African gender historiography.
History 201AM
Readings on Socially Constructed Differences, Policy, & the State
in the 20th Century U.S.
Prof. De Hart
This course is designed to introduced students, beginning and advanced,
to important issues, themes, and literature on gender and sexualities,
and how they interact with other socially constructed differences such
as race, ethnicity, and class. Of concern as well is how both gender and
sexuality have been and remain deeply impacted by the state. Nowhere has
this been more true than in the area of reproduction. While many important
topics and books have to be omitted, course coverage nevertheless ranges
from labor and legal history to popular culture and social movements.
There is also a good deal of attention to theoretical concepts.
History 201AM
Reading in the Field of Modern U.S. Women's History
Prof. De Hart
This course in intended both to introduce key conceptual and methodological
issues in the rapidly changing field of women's history and to explore
the relationship of the feminist movement, the emergence of women's history
as a field, gender analysis, and the discipline of history. Although we
will certain take note of other influences on the field such as postmodernism,
cultural studies, queer theory, subaltern studies and so on, our primary
focus is on discipline-related question and the extent to which women's
history has challenged fundamental disciplinary assumptions and to what
extent it has reproduced them. The course does not aspire to comprehensive
coverage of the historical experience of American women in the 20th century.
Rather it uses texts that expand our understanding of key aspects of the
period, demonstrate how the use of gender as a category of analysis and
the field in general has evolved, and illuminate in varying degree theoretical
issues and problems.
History 201AM
Readings in Modern U.S. Women's History & Politics
Prof.De Hart
This course focuses on the political experiences of American women in
the 20th century, demonstrating why gender has to be an indispensable
category of analysis for students of politics, policy, and the state.
The main body of the course will focus on how gender was constructed,
reproduced, minimized, or reconstructed, and how it interacted with other
socially constructed differences.
Insights should emerge as we examine selected problems and events including:
interest groups and political parties, by exploring suffrage before and
after World War I; the state and the reproduction of gender difference
by examining wage inequity and workplace stratification prior to and during
World War II; the state, sexuality, and reproduction during the early
years of the Cold War and also the later years, as the emphasis shifted
from a coercive heterosexuality and suppression of any form of deviant
behavior to reproductive and fetal rights. Other topics include bridge
leadership for women as a movement-building device and nationalist politics
as masculinist politics, both to be explored in the context of the civil
right movement. Mobilizational politics and cultural politics emerge in
both the feminist & ERA ratification movements. Finally the military
offers an opportunity to examine gender in the context of state institutions,
sexual politics, and policy.
History 201AM
Welfare State History as Racialized Gender History
Prof. De Hart
Having examined first: (a) constructions of citizenship, (b) welfare state
formation,(c) the interaction of gender, race, ethnicity, and class in
the origins of social policy, (d) changing definitions of welfare and
dependency, (d) the moral construction of poverty, and (e) the social
(and racialized) construction of both mothering and illegitimacy by mid-century,
we will look at welfare racism, the demographics accounting for the growth
of mothers receiving payments under AFDC in the wake of President Johnson's
War on Poverty, the reality behind the "epidemic of teen pregnancy",
and the explanation for the growing consensus bipartisan consensus on
welfare reform and what it has meant for women and their children at the
end of the 20th century.
History 201C
Gender, Race, and Empire in the Age of Modernity
Prof. Rappaport and Prof. Miescher
This course provides an introduction to recent historiography on the interconnections
between gender, nation, and empire. It examines the different forces and
power relations among the participants in the making of colonial cultures
across Africa, Europe, and India. Taking a comparative perspective, we
are especially interested in how imperialism was gendered, how notions
of gender were promoted, adapted, and negotiated within various locations
of the empire.
History 201E
Gender, Politics, and Public Life in Europe, 1870-Present
Prof. Rappaport
This course explores how gender came to be at the center of debates about
the causes, consequences and nature of modernity. It focuses on how notions
of "family" and gender identities were integral to the development
of modern cities, economies, political parties, and governments in both
war and peace. Special attention will be given to how gender and sexuality
were influenced by and affected the nature of empire, war and economic
crisis, the development of welfare policies, and the growth of consumer
cultures in England, France, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.
History 201E
The Making and Unmaking of Class in Victorian Britain
Prof. Rappaport
This course considers how feminist and postcolonial studies and the new
cultural history have engaged with and/or challenged the fixed notion
of class identities in Victorian Britain. Thus, this course is intended
to be a consideration of how gender and race as well as the encounters/exchanges
between the "new social history" and "new cultural history"
have produced new sets of questions or approaches to studying the Victorian
past.
History 201G
Advanced Historical Literature (Gender)
Prof. Farmer and Prof. Miescher
This reading seminar introduces students to current historical scholarships
exploring issues of gender as practiced by different historical sub-fields
in a variety of geographical regions and chronological periods; they include
colonial Africa and South/Southeast Asia; medieval and modern Europe;
modern East Asia, Middle East, and North America.
History 203AB
Prof. Miescher
Research Seminar about historical perspectives on masculinities.
History 219A-B
Research Seminar in Gender and History
Prof. DeHart
A two-quarter research seminar involving gender analysis of late nineteenth
and twentieth century topics in U.S. history.
History 219C-D
Research Seminar in Gender and Public Policy
Prof. DeHart
A two-quarter research seminar involving gender analysis of public policy
issues in the United States.
History 226
Research Seminar in Women and Nationalism
Prof. Judge
Exploration of both the direct roles women have played in nationalist
movements in different parts of the world, east and west, as well as the
diverse ways the symbol of woman has been appropriated by such movements.
Women's Studies 270
Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy
Prof. Boris
Women's Studies 594EB
Special Topics in Women's Studies
Prof. Boris
Women's Studies 594LR
Special Topics in Women's Studies
Prof. Rupp
This interdisciplinary reading course grounded in a historical approach
varies from year to year, but the topics concern either women's movements
or sexuality. Examples of topics include "Global Feminisms"
and "Sapphistries: Women-Loving Women."
Anthropology 102A.
Introduction to Women, Culture and Development
Profs. Hancock, Bhavnani
Same course as Sociology 156A and Global Studies 180A.
Critical examination of relations among women, culture, and development.
Topics include colonialism, violence, globalization and the state, health
and reproduction, biotechnology, representation and resistance movements.
Anthropology 102B
Seminar in Women, Culture and Development
Profs. Hancock, Bhavnani
Same course as Sociology 156B and Global Studies 180B.
Critical examination of the interrelationships among women, culture, and
development through individual research projects.
Anthropology 176
Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan
Prof. Frühstück
Same course as History 188S and Japanese 162.
The main ideologies guiding the establishment of various representations
of sexuality from prewar scientific writings to contemporary popular culture.
History 101G
Comparative Histories of Same-Sex Practices and Gender Variance
Prof. Miescher
Exploration of same-sex behavior in ancient Greece, pre-modern Oceania,
medieval Europe, modern Africa, and North America. Introduction to the
theoretical questions in the study of sexuality and how scholars have
used these tools.
History 117C
Women, the Family, and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Prof. Farmer
Same course as Women's Studies 117C and Medieval Studies 100A.
Family structure; perceptions and ideals of intimate and familial relations;
status, perceptions, and experiences of women in western Europe circa
400-1400 A.D. Special attention on social, political, and religious contexts.
History 117D
Feminist Perspectives on Jewish and Christian Traditions
Profs. Farmer, Hecht
Same course as Interdisciplinary 185HF.
This seminar examines selected "clanic" texts (Biblical, Talmudic,
Patristic) dealing with women, gender, and sexuality; as well as historic
and contemporary uses, reinterpretations and responses to those texts.
History 124B
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1914-Present
Prof. Rappaport
Same course as Women's Studies 124B.
The relationship between war, revolution, fascism, socialism, feminism,
and consumerism and the history of the family, gender, and sexual identities
in the twentieth century.
History 124WP
Proseminar in European Women's History
Prof. Rappaport
Research seminar on topics related to the history of women, gender, and
sexuality in modern European history.
History 146W
Women and Gender in Middle Eastern History
Prof. Gallagher
A social history of women in the Middle East from the nineteenth century
to the present. The course investiages women's diverse and rapidly changing
political, economical, and social roles in the region emphasizing contemporary
feminist and Islamist movements.
History 147G
Gender & Power in Modern African History
Prof. Miescher
Examination of gender, power, and authority among and between men and
women in response to socioeconomic transformations in nineteenth and twentieth-century
Africa. Themes include interpretations of gender, organization of labor,
the missionary project, the state, and colonial rule.
History 175D
American Family History
Prof. Jacobson
Examines how race, ethnicity, and class have shaped changing attitudes
toward and experiences of sex roles, sexuality, child rearing, work patterns,
and relationships among men, women, and children. Also explores changing
conceptions of the state's role in family life.
History 188A
History of Women in China: From the Ancient Period to the Nineteenth Century
Prof. Judge
Exploration of the diverse roles women have played in Chinese culture
and society up to the nineteenth century by examining the many contexts
within which women operated: the family, the imperial court, literati
and popular culture.
History 188B
History of Women in China: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
Prof. Judge
Examination of the role of women in culture, politics, and society in
China's "century of revolution." Exploration of their participation
in revolutionary and women's movements and their daily lives in the family
and the workplace.
History 188S
Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan
Prof. Frühstück
Same course as Anthropology 176 and Japanese 162.
The main ideologies guiding the establishment of various representations
of sexuality from prewar scientific writings to contemporary popular culture.
Sociology 159LG
Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Communities
Prof. Schneider
Same course as Women's Studies 159LG.
Origins and transformation of lesbian and gay communities and social movements,
with special attention to ideological development, major social problems,
cultural production, race, ethnic and gender differences, organizational
formation and political conflict.
Women's Studies 120
Women's Labors
Prof. Boris
What is women's work? How has it changed over time? How is it valued?
Explores wage-earning, caregiving, sex work, housework, double days, glass
ceilings, and strategies of survival and resistance among America women
from various demographic, racial, and ethnic groups.
Women's Studies 124A
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1750-1914
Prof. Rappaport
Same course as History 124A.
The roles of women, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth
century Europe. Exploration of the nature of women and revolution: religious,
legal, scientific, and popular conceptions of gender and sexuality; industrialization
and family life, the rise of organized feminism.
Women's Studies 140
Asian American Women's Writing
Staff
A survey of the writings of Asian American women. It situates second generation
and contemporary Asian American women writers in their particular ethnic
cultures to better understand their contributions to U.S. traditions of
representations.
Women's Studies 147Q
Readings on African History
Prof. Miescher
Same course as History 147Q. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of
8 units.
A discussion and reading seminar on selected topics in African history.
Women's Studies 150
Modern Sex and Modern Love
Prof. Rupp
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units may
be applied toward the major. Same course as Film Studies 162.
Examination of how the media reflect and shape ideas of and about contemporary
feminism. In an effort to be topical, subjects covered consist of contemporary
feminist issues featured in the media during the quarter.
Women's Studies 159B
Women in American History
Profs. Cohen, Dehart
Same course as History 159B.
Social history of women in America from 1800 to 1900. Changing marriage,
reproduction and work patterns, and cultural values about the female role.
Attention to racial, class, and ethnic differences. Analysis of feminist
thought and the several women's movements.
Women's Studies 159C
Women in Twentieth-Century American History
Profs. DeHart, Cohen
Same course as History 159C.
A continuation of Women's Studies 159A-B from 1900 to the present.
Women's Studies 163A
Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
Prof. DeHart
Same course as History 163A.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action,
and economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy
with respect to work, family, and legal and reproductive rights. From
1900 through approximately 1945.
Women's Studies 163B
Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
Prof. DeHart
Same course as History 163B.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action,
and economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy
with respect to work, family and legal and reproductive rights. From World
War II to the present.
Women's Studies 171CN
Citoyennes! Women and Politics in Modern France
Prof. Nesci
Same course as French 171X.
Focuses on women's fights for the rights of equality and liberty, their
exclusion from the public sphere, and their access to citizenship (1789-2001).
Women's evolving personal and collective aspirations, and the creation
of a republican womanhood in modern culture. In English.
Women's Studies 181
Key Issues in Feminist Theory
Prof. Boris
Readings in feminist theories since de Beauvoir, to frame and interpret
selected contemporary social, cultural, and political movements and the
roles of women within U.S. domestic and/or transnational territories.