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Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Not all courses are available to SSP students. For example, some courses are offered only for graduate credit. Note especially any listed prerequisites.

SWGS S-1000 The Gender Mystique (31816)
(Print version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

*** SWGS S-1000 has been CANCELED.***

SWGS S-1154 Women, Popular Culture, and the American 1950s: I Like Ike, but I Love Lucy (31813)
(Print version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

*** SWGS S-1154 has been CANCELED.***

SWGS S-1410 Women and Literature (31828)
(Print version)
Linda Schlossberg
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 3:30-6 pm, Warren House, Room 201. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course surveys women's novels in their historical and cultural contexts. We pay close attention to issues of power, domesticity, motherhood, sexuality, violence, and creativity. Authors include Charlotte Brontë, Jamaica Kincaid, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nella Larsen, Virginia Woolf, and Laura Esquivel.

SWGS S-1453 Icons of Masculinity (31921)
(Print version)
Arthur Holmberg
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 6-8:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 207. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

Using icons from movies, music, theater, fiction, and television that represent manhood, this course explores how American men define and perform masculinity. Various archetypes—cowboys, cops, crooks, athletes, playboys, buddies, rock stars, Woody Allen, Bugs Bunny, and Homer Simpson—are examined.

SWGS S-1455 Freud's Cases (31907)
(Print version)
Daniel Itzkovitz
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 111. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course provides an introduction to psychoanalysis through Freud's case studies. Reading these astonishing cases as theoretical, literary, and historical documents, we explore how Freud used them to work out the basic tenets of psychoanalysis, examining their broad range of implications for clinical as well as artistic and theoretical expressions. Supplementary texts are drawn from twentieth-century literature, film, art, and theory.

 



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