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Gender Studies

Gender Studies at the University of Chicago encompasses diverse disciplines, modes of inquiry, and objects of knowledge. Starting in the autumn of 1997, the University will offer a concentration in Gender Studies that will allow undergraduates the opportunity to shape a disciplinary or interdisciplinary plan of study focused on gender and gender-related issues. The plan of study, designed with the assistance of a Gender Studies Concentration Adviser, can take the form of a gender-track in a traditional academic discipline, interdisciplinary work on a gender-related topic, or a combination thereof. Students can thus create a cluster of courses linked by their attention to gender as an object of study, or by their use of gender categories to investigate topics in sexuality, social life, science, politics and culture, literature and the arts, or systems of thought. All students concentrating in Gender Studies are required to take a two-quarter gender theory course (Problems in Gender Studies) and write a B.A. paper.

Students not interested in concentrating in Gender Studies are encouraged to use this listing of faculty and course offerings as a resource for the purpose of designing programs within disciplines, as an aid for the allocation of electives, or for the pursuit of a B.A. project. For further work in gender studies, students are encouraged to investigate other courses taught by resource faculty. For more information about Gender Studies, consult Julia Coyne (702-9936).

Faculty

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JEANNE ALTMANN, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution and the College

LEORA AUSLANDER, Associate Professor, Department of History and the College

MARY E. BECKER, Professor, the Law School

LAUREN BERLANT, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JACQUELINE BHABHA, Lecturer, the Law School

JAMES E. BOWMAN, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Committees on African & African-American Studies and Genetics, and the College

CAROL BRECKENRIDGE, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities and the College

MARY BRINTON, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

BILL BROWN, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

GEORGE CHAUNCEY, Associate Professor, Department of History and the College

JEAN COMAROFF, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology; Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine, and the College

WENDY DONIGER, Mircea Eliade Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

MARTHA FELDMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Music and the College

NORMA M. FIELD, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

SHEILA FITZPATRICK, Professor, Department of History and the College

RACHEL FULTON, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

SUSAN GAL, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

JAN E. GOLDSTEIN, Professor, Department of History and the College

WENDY GRISWOLD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

ELAINE HADLEY, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

MIRIAM HANSEN, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on the Visual Arts, and the College

ELIZABETH HELSINGER, Professor, Departments of English Language & Literature and Art History, and the College

GILBERT HERDT, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

RONALD INDEN, Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

JANET JOHNSON, Professor, Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

JANICE KNIGHT, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LAURA LETINSKY, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on the Visual Arts

MARY MAHOWALD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

MARTHA MCCLINTOCK, Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

FRAN&CCEDIL;OISE MELTZER, Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature and the College

MALKA MOSCONA, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and the
College

JANEL M. MUELLER, William Rainey Harper Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

DEBORAH NELSON, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, and the College

GLORIA PINNEY, Professor, Departments of Art History and Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

ELIZABETH POVINELLI, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

LISA RUDDICK, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

LESLIE SALZINGER, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

LYNN SANDERS, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

JULIE SAVILLE, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

LINDA SEIDEL, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Communication), and Committee on Analysis of Ideas & Study of Methods

LAURA SLATKIN, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

AMY STANLEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

KATIE TRUMPENER, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

WILLIAM VEEDER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and Committee on General Studies in the Humanities

CANDACE VOGLER, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and the College

MARTHA WARD, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on the Visual Arts, and the College

ELISSA WEAVER, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College

REBECCA WEST, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the
College

JUDITH T. ZEITLIN, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Courses

Anthropology

Anthro 212/336. Intensive Study of a Culture: The Tswana, Past and Present (=AfAfAm 205). J. Comaroff. Spring.

Anthro 213/303. Modern Readings in Anthropology: Gender Theory and Anthropology. S. Gal. Winter.

Anthro 228. Diasporas: Asian Migration in the Modern World (=Hist 379, SoAsia 282). C. Breckenridge. Autumn.

Anthro 243/403. Medicine and Culture. J. Comaroff. Spring.

Anthro 251/451. Anthropology of the Body. J. Comaroff. Spring.

Anthro 306-2. Introduction to African Civilization II (=SocSci 227). R. Austen. Winter.

Art History

ArtH 185. The Representation of Women in Ancient Greece (=Eng 235). G. Pinney. Winter.

Biological Sciences

BioSci 162. Evolution and Human Diversity. J. Bowman. Spring.

BioSci 286. Foundations of Gender and Gender Differences (=NCD 228, Psych 219). M. Moscona, M. McClintock. Spring.

BioSci 324. Social Context of Vertebrate Reproduction (=HumDev 324, Psych 318). J. Altmann, L. Houck, M. McClintock. Winter.

East Asian Language and Civilizations

Japan 375. Issues for Feminism in Japan. PQ: Knowledge of Japanese not required. N. Field. Spring.

Committee on the Visual Arts

COVA 250. Space, Sight, and Femininity: A Curatorial Project. PQ: COVA 101 or ArtH 101. L. Letinsky. Winter.

English

Eng 102-103. Problems in Gender Studies (=GS Hum 228-229, Hist 180-181, Hum 228-229, SocSci 282-283, Eng 103=ArtH 171, Philos 217). E. E. Alexander, D. Nelson, Autumn; L. Auslander, Winter.

Eng 211. Victorian Daughters, Wives, and Mothers. E. Hadley. Winter.

Germanic Studies

German 351. Cinema and Culture of the 1930s: Germany and Europe (=ComLit 360, GS Hum 378, Hum 278). K. Trumpener. Winter.

German 382. Freud, Women, and Jews. PQ: Consent of instructor. S. Jaffe. Winter.

History

Hist 132. History of Western Civilization. J. Goldstein. Winter.

Hist 136. America in Western Civilization. J. Saville. Winter.

Hist 177. Social History of American Sexual Subcultures. G. Chauncey. Winter.

Hist 180-181. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 228-229, Hum 228-229, SocSci 282-283, Eng 103=ArtH 171, Philos 217). E. E. Alexander, D. Nelson, Autumn; L. Auslander, Winter.

Human Development

HumDev 384. Anthropology of Sexual Cultures (=Psych 304). G. Herdt. Winter.

Humanities

Hum 142. Reading Cultures: Capitalist Cultures. Staff. Spring.

Philosophy

Philos 217. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 228-229, Hist 180-181, Hum 228-229, Eng 103=ArtH 171, SocSci 282-283). E. E. Alexander, D. Nelson, Autumn; L. Auslander, Winter.

Romance Languages & Literatures

Ital 249/349. Italian Renaissance Theater. E. Weaver. Spring.

Ital 295/395. Women and "Woman" in Twentieth-Century Italy. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. R. West. Winter.

Social Sciences

SocSci 282-283. Problems in Gender Studies (=Eng 102-103, GS Hum 228-229, Hist 180-181, Hum 228-229, Eng 103=ArtH 171, Philos 217). E. E. Alexander, D. Nelson, Autumn; L. Auslander, Winter.

Sociology

Sociol 216/316. Gender and Work. M. Brinton. Spring.