Intro to Women’s Studies

Texts: Annual Editions: Women·s Studies ’99-00 (AE); Richardson/Taylor/Whittier, Feminist Frontiers IV (R/T/W); Ruth, Issues in Feminism, 4th ed. (R); Handouts. Introduction This course will introduce you to the discipline of Women’s Studies. We will employ a multicultural/interdisciplinary/experiential approach to address a number of questions: How does our culture define women and men? How do images of women and men in media shape our behavior? What roles do our ideas about gender play in the institutions of family, sexuality, health, work and politics? What can we learn about women, women·s lives, and a gendered culture through service learning, and how can…