This course aims to examine feminist critiques of knowledge, academic disciplines, and research methods. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge current theories of knowledge and the methodologies employed in interdisciplinary research. We will ask how gender theory and feminist politics shape the kind of research questions we ask, the types of material we use, etc.. In order to develop research and analytic skills that engage feminist methods, we will produce detailed research designs in stages over the course of the semester. The focus is on the process of research rather than the final product.

WSCP 81000 - Studies in Italian Narrative Prose: Herself Beheld: Deconstructing 20^th Century
                         Italian Women’s Writing
GC                   W 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Giancarlo Lombardi [94760]
                        [Cross listed with Comp.Lit. 88300]

Through the analysis of a group of novels, this course will discuss the complex production of 20th century Italian women writers. In our critical reading of these novels, we will question their specific belonging to the Italian literary tradition and to a wider genealogy of European women writers. Italian feminist theory will serve as one of the theoretical filters that will help us to isolate the specific elements that differentiate and identify the literary production of Italian women writers as such. Divided in three chronological sections, this course will be initially dedicated to the analysis of women's literary production at the turn of the century, it will then shift its focus to the texts written during the Fascist period, WWII, and the post-war period, and will eventually close on a critical discussion of novels produced after 1968. Psychoanalysis, deconstruction and neo-historicism will guide our approach to these texts, enabling us to tease out the warring forces of signification that reside in their multi-layered structure. Particular attention will be given to questions of gender, sexuality, national identity, race and ethnicity, as contained within the relations of power displayed in the texts to be examined. In its analysis of Italian women's writing, this course will address immigration and emigration, the rise and fall of Fascist ideology, the Holocaust, the Southern question, political terrorism, and the passage from the First to the Second Republic, thus discussing the complex representation of Italian society offered by a representative group of women writers of the past century. Readings will include selected works by Matilde Serao, Neera, Grazia Deledda, Sibilla Aleramo, Anna Banti, Gianna Manzini, Alba de Cespedes, Fausta Cialente, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Dacia Maraini, Melania Mazzucco, Pia Pera, and Elena Ferrante.

WSCP 81000 - The European Renaissance: Codes and Code Breaking in Italian Renaissance Culture
GC                    M 4:15 -6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Paulicelli [94761]
                          [Cross listed with Comp. Lit. 71000] (Taught in Italian)

The seminar will explore the complexity of early modern Italian cultural production and its literary tradition vis-à-vis western European notions of subjectivity and identity formation. Within the Italian tradition, the role of the literary imagination has been central in shaping and "inventing" various narratives, from that of the nation, to those of the ideal state or city, of the individual as ideal courtier/gentleman or the Prince, of the values of civic virtues and civility, of love, as well as that of the canons of refined prose writing and rhetoric. Yet, parallel to the creation of canons and precepts an opposed mechanism has lived side by side, either residing in the same texts that aimed at searching and creating an order--such as Castiglione's Book of the Courtier or Machiavelli's The Prince, Pietro Bembo's Asolani--or reacting to such texts' prescriptions, for example Pietro Aretino's Ragionamenti and texts written by women writers like Moderata Fonte and her The Worth of Women, Lucrezia Marinella's The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Deficiencies of Men, and Tullia D'Aragona's Dialogue on the Infinity of Love. Code-making and code-breaking have been central in Italian Renaissance literary works, representing a sort of battle-field of conflicting narratives and debates on language and style, women, sexuality and gender, visual and verbal culture, intellectual power and politics etc. The literary genre that epitomizes all these fruitful tensions is the treatise, a genre that witnessed a series of ramifications within the context of "conduct literature" and its theme of the management of the body and the self, politics, language and love. What fuelled the need to narrate the changes occurring in society and institutions at this time were the technological transformations that followed the advent of printing, the geographical discoveries of the existence of "new worlds," and the complex inter-exchange between models of the past and contemporary social practices. It is in the light of the upheavals that took place in16th century Italian civil society that we can best consider the massive presence of a literature that investigated both the possibility of expanding, but also of limiting--through the establishment of accepted canons, taste and laws--the potential of the human body and the self, as well as the role of what were to become nations and empires. After an in-depth review of texts like the above, the course will conclude with a discussion of excerpts from the heretical texts of the likes of Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella and Galileo Galilei. (Seminar taught in Italian) For further information about the course please contact: epaulicelli@gmail.com

WSCP 81000 - Sex Crimes
JJ                     M 6:30-8:30 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Karen Terry [94762] [Cross listed with CRJ. 88000]

WSCP 81000 - Women in Criminal Justice
JJ                      T 6:30-8:30 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Natalie Sokoloff [94763] [Cross listed with CRJ. 87100]

The aims of this course are: to provide an arena within which we explore in-depth questions about women, crime, and justice; to structure a challenging and provocative set of questions that will help us to learn more about and evaluate what happens to women in the criminal justice system and how this is related to issues of socially structured inequalities in American society; to acknowledge both the diversity of women and the diversity of crimes and conditions under which the laws are made and enforced; to use as a framework the constantly developing and changing race/class/gender/sexual orientation perspective; and to explore social justice alternatives to the existing criminal justice framework now used in studying gender, crime, and criminal justice. Students will be encouraged to critically evaluate all materials--and in so doing to improve upon and transform our understandings of what happens to women throughout the criminal justice system and in relation to social justice.

WSCP 81000 - Crime Prevention and Control
JJ                     M 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. David Kennedy [94764] [listed with CRJ. 88100]

WSCP 81000 - History of Criminological Thought
JJ                    R 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Mary Gibson [94765 ] [listed with CRJ. 82000]

This course will examine the development of criminological theories from the eighteenth century to 1950 including those of the Classical, Positivist, and Chicago Schools of criminology. Students will read important criminological texts from the past in the original and discuss their ideas in a seminar format. Major issues in the course will include the relation of biological to sociological causes of crime; free will versus determinism in criminal behavior; justifications of punishment; and the treatment of gender, class, ethnicity, and race in historical criminology. Texts will represent a variety of approaches to writing criminology including philosophical, scientific, ethnological, and statistical. Course requirements include class attendance and participation (35%); 9 one-page book reviews (25%); a 10-12 page research paper (25%); and a class presentation of the research paper (15%).

WSCP 81000 - Translated Lives: Body, Memory, Text
GC                    W 11:45a.m.-1:45 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Meena Alexander [94766]
                          [Cross listed with Eng. 86500]

How do the materials of a writer's life get translated into the work of art? We will approach the question of literary self-fashioning by thinking through questions of place and dislocation, body and memory given a migratory, diasporic existence. How does language work to convey the details of bodily experience? And what of traumatic memory – when the materials of the shared past or of the personal life are sheathed in forgetfulness? What does it mean to speak of a poetics of dislocation? Several of the writers we will look at have felt that they were forced to fabricate a tradition. In some of the writers there is an overt sense that work of art had to create a space in which alone the self could come into being. To clarify our discussions on bodily experience and the making of postcolonial texts we will turn to early English Romanticism and examine notions of selfhood, imagination and place. We will read Wordsworth's epic of subjectivity The Prelude (1805 version), Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater and selections from Burke and Coleridge. Our readings in postcolonial literature will include two major works that make use of Wordsworth – Derek Walcott's long poem Another Life and V.S.Naipaul's memoir Enigma of Arrival. We will also read selected prose by Walcott and his long poem Omeros. We will read Theresa Cha's work of experimental prose Dictee and examine the writings of J.M.Coetzee by focusing on his novels, Life and Times of Michael K, Foe and Elizabeth Costello . There will be selected readings from Agamben, Anzaldua, Appadurai, Bauman, Bhabha, Caruth, Cliff, Deleuze and Guattari, Harvey, Merleau-Ponty, Seyhan, Soja, Spivak and others. Requirements: This course will be run as a seminar with class presentations. One short paper and one long paper. Books will be on order at Labyrinth Books, 112 Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, Tel: 212-865-1588.

WSCP 81000 - Studies in Romantic Narrative: Visions and Versions of Romance
GC                    T 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Rachel Brownstein [94767]
                          [Cross listed with Eng. 84000]

When they are recalled in nineteenth-century operas and twentieth- and twenty-first-century films, the narratives of Romantic-period writers are rewritten as romances. Nostalgia gets piled upon nostalgia, and irony upon irony: the Romantic sense of the past and Romantic irony with it get ironed out and replaced by a more modern skepticism that seems to have been born yesterday. The tropes and specific narratives of the early nineteenth century are imagined, along with the costumes, as simply romantic. What is the relation of Romanticism to old, mere, high, and/or true romance? How is the ambivalent romance that early nineteenth-century English writers had with romance understood and represented today? In this seminar, we will explore these questions while reading canonical narrative poems and novels composed in English in the second decade of the nineteenth century. Other questions will be raised as well: about the relation of the past to the present and the characteristic nostalgia of modernity; about the shapes (and the tropes) of the stories that get rewritten and the density and complexity of literary texts. The relationship of literature to fantasy and history, and of language to writers and readers, will be at the center of our discussions.

WSCP 81000 - Trauma, Testimony, Mourning: Twentieth Century Literature of Witness
GC                    R 4:15-6:15 p.m, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Nancy K. Miller [94768] [Cross listed with Eng. 86000]

"Trauma, Testimony, Mourning" will examine the work of writers who have borne witness to the traumatic events of a century fractured by war and atrocity. In addition to first-person accounts that deal with extreme experience, readings will include critical studies in trauma and visual culture. The Holocaust and its aftermath will be a central though not exclusive focus of the seminar. We will end with a unit on Sept.11 and the role of visual documents and monuments in the process of memorialization. Because photography continues to play a crucial role in constructing our sense of traumatic experience, students who plan to take this course are expected to attend the day-long conference "Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis" that will take place at the Graduate Center on Friday, December 9, 2005. Writers include: Barthes, Beauvoir, Caruth, Cha, Delbo, Ernaux, Laub, Levi, O'Brien, Sontag, Satrapi, Spiegelman, Woolf. The work for the course: a seminar report and a 20-page research paper.

WSCP 81000 - Proust II
GC                    T 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Eve Sedgwick [[94769] [Cross listed with Eng. 87100]

This is a year-long seminar (divided into two courses: Proust I and Proust II) organized around a close, start-to-finish reading of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. We will be considering a wide range of the issues, motives, and ambitions embodied in the novel, including its complicated relation to the emerging discourses of Euro- American homosexuality. Other preoccupations that I hope will emerge through our discussions include the changing possibilities of novelistic genre; narratorial consciousness; texture; habit and addiction; experimental identities; adult relations to childhood; the spatialities of present and past; the psychologies of object relations; the vicissitudes of gender; the bourgeois maternal in relation to such other roles as the grandmother, the aunt, the uncle, and a variety of domestic workers; alternatives to triangular desire; the languages of affect; phallic and non-phallic sexualities; the phenomenology and epistemology of oneiric states; the relations between Jewish diasporic being and queer diasporic being within modernism; and the affective, phenomenological, and philosophical ramifications of an interest in the transmigration of souls – to name but a few. For ease of discussion, all students are required to use the new translation edited by Christopher Prendergast (individual translations by Lydia Davis et al.). Those who wish to can also read in French.

WSCP 81000 - The Black Woman’s Novel in Post WWII America
GC                    R 2:00-4:00 pm., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr [94770] [Cross listed with Eng. 75700]

In this course we will assess the work of that generation of Black American female writers who gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. We will ask how these women's writing built upon a tradition of Black American literature dominated by men, particularly Wright, Ellison and Baldwin. Moreover, we will be especially concerned with the ways in which contemporary black female fiction and poetry partakes in the cultural and ethical debates engendered by the feminist and gay and lesbian movements. The course will have a particular focus on the work of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni and Octavia Butler and will be supplemented with a heavy dose of secondary and critical texts. Students will write one short "review essay" and a longer seminar paper.

WSCP 81000 - Rethinking Aestheticism
GC                    M 2:00-4:00 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Talia Schaffer [94771] [Cross listed with Eng. 84500]

Traditionally, aestheticism has been perceived as a minor movement at the fin-de-siecle, mainly composed of Oscar Wilde wearing plush breeches and floppy hair. But recently our understanding of this movement and its significance has been drastically expanded. In this course we will examine aestheticism as a revolutionary literary theory and practice, a feminist practice, a major reformer of material culture, an innovative refashioner of gender and sexual roles, a philosophical discourse about subjectivity, and an influential force on modernism. In rethinking aestheticism, we will be reading some now-forgotten authors who were major figures in the movement, giving us a chance to ask some questions about canonization and the way categories of literary history evolved. Along with Wilde, we will be reading Ruskin, Pater, Morris, Stoker, Symons, Dowson, Johnson, Yeats, Hope, James, Lee, Marriott Watson, Meynell, Ouida, Malet, Taylor, and looking at art by du Maurier, Beardsley, and Whistler. Critics will include Denisoff, Thomas, Bristow, Prins, Schaffer, Psomiades, Freedman, Felski, Ledger, Ardis, Laity, and Feldman.

WSCP 81000 - Post-Colonial African Narratives
GC                    T 11:45-1:45 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Barbara Webb [[94772] [Cross listed with Eng. 86500]

A study of how African writers have attempted to transform the political and cultural legacies of colonialism by creating narratives that challenge prevailing notions of national identity and power. We will examine their representations of African history, politics, and culture. Of particular interest will be their engagements with nationalist, pan-Africanist, and postcolonial discourse. We will also discuss how these writers address problems of language and literary form, and how they see their roles as artists and social critics. In addition to literary texts by Anglophone African writers published in the post-independence period, we will read essays by African critics and theorists such as Appiah, Mudimbe, Ndebele, and Gikandi as well as selected writings by postcolonial theorists such as Said and Bhabha among others. Primary texts: Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God; Ama Ata Aidoo, No Sweetness Here; Bessie Head, Collector of Treasures; Nuruddin Farah, Maps; Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Matagari; Ben Okri, The Famished Road; and Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins. Requirements: An oral presentation and a term paper (15-20 pages). The course will be conducted as a seminar with class discussion of assigned readings and oral presentations each week.

Australia and New Zealand (along with their North-American counterparts, the United States and Canada) are historically grounded in a settler population that was simultaneously colonial with regard to its British homeland and colonizing with regard to an indigenous people. Like America's early states, both of these Antipodean settler colonies emerged from outposts loyal to their mother country to become autonomous political entities and ultimately independent nations with literatures worthy of world attention. But although British usage still merges these two lands into "the Antipodes," they in fact differ in many significant ways. The fact that New Zealand's early settlers were God-fearing citizens in pursuit of economic opportunity whereas those of Australia, whose initial British settlement was a spreading penal colony, were largely transported convicts arriving in chains would presumably account at least in part for the long-term differences in the cultures of these two nations. The historical roots of each will be addressed at the start of the semester in selections from Breaking a Man's Spirit by the Australian writer Marcus Clarke and Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker (both published in 1870), and subsequently in the evocation of settlement life in nineteenth-century Queensland in David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon; the account of the Aborigine experience of two previous generations in Sally Morgan's autobiographical narrative My Place; a novel dealing with early New Zealand history by either C.S. Stead or Maurice Shadbolt; and historical segments of two assigned novels by two Maori writers, Patricia Grace's Potiki and Witi Ihimaera's Bulibasha. Our reading of Morgan's text, a short story by the Aborigine novelist Colin Johnson, and the two Maori narratives identified above will also shed light on the vastly differing cultures and societal roles of Australia's and New Zealand's indigenous populations. Another focal issue–particularly in our discussion of The Idea of Perfection by the Australian writer Kate Grenville, Children's Bach by the New Zealand writer Helen Garner, and short stories by a wide range of writers—will be the relationship between men and women (and the characteristics ascribed to each) in authors from Australia, which has traditionally been a notably male-dominated country, and New Zealand, a nation that takes pride in having been the first to allow women to vote and in which a number of present government leaders, including the Prime Minister, are female. Throughout the semester, however, attention will also be given to aspects of human experience that arguably lie outside the political realm. Of central importance in this context will be the treatment of art--and more fundamentally of perception–in My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey (an Australian writer who has twice won the Booker Prize, an award given annually for the best novel written anywhere within the British Commonwealth of Nations) and the representation of subjectivity, mental disturbance, and madness in An Angel at My Table, the second of three volumes in a personal narrative that Michael Holroyd described as "one of the greatest autobiographies written this [i.e., the twentieth] century" by Janet Frame (who in 2003 was one of three finalists for the Nobel Prize in Literature). Requirements for this seminar include a one-page response to each week's reading assignment, a class presentation, and a twelve-to-fifteen-page paper.

WSCP 81000 - Modernist Fiction
GC                    R 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Elizabeth Tenenbaum [94807]
                          [Cross listed with Eng. 76000]

We will devote a major fraction of the semester to probing the multifaceted nature of British modernist fiction through a study of four novelists whose writings arguably constitute the core of this transformative literary mode: Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Focal issues for discussion will include the innovative visions these writers introduced in three disparate domains: the structural and technical options entailed in narrative art; the intensity, variance, and unpredictable impact of subjectivity; and the degree to which societal structures both enable and constrain human experience. Reading will include Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, Lawrence’s Women in Love, a major portion of Joyce’s Ulysses, and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway along with either To the Lighthouse or The Waves. These novels will be read in the context of a variety of shorter readings by these novelists including short stories (and possibly a few novellas) and non-fictional selections of three kinds: personal writings (e.g., autobiographical pieces, journal entries, and letters), texts that deal with values, concerns, and beliefs that implicitly ground their writer’s approach to fiction (e.g., segments of Lawrence’s Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own); and explicit discussions of various aspects of narrative literature (e.g., Conrad’s Introduction to The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lawrence’s "The Novel" along with segments of Studies in Classic American Literature, and Woolf’s "Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown." The latter part of this seminar will focus upon relatively short, contemporaneous novels by American and Continental European writers (e.g, Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Kafka’s The Trail, and Gide’s The Immoralist). The first of two required oral presentations (twenty to thirty minutes long) will analyze a narrative assigned for discussion (either a short story, a novel, or a single chapter of Ulysses) in the light of a particular critical, theoretical, or interdisciplinary perspective (e.g., Wayne Booth’s rhetorical analysis, Shlomith Rimman-Kenan’s, Michael Riffaterre’s, or Peter Brooks’ narratological theory, Fredrick Jameson’s or Terry Eagleton’s Marxist reading, or any chosen post-colonial, linguistic, sociological, or psychological approach). For the second presentation, students (perhaps working in pairs) will discuss both the continuities and the alternatives to British Modernist fiction found within an American or a Western European novel of the Modernist period (approximately 1900 to 1940) or a subsequent literary era. (For both these presentations, a list of suggested materials will be provided at the start of spring semester.) Additional seminar requirements include the submission of three weekly questions on readings scheduled for discussion and a term paper, optionally on a topic related to either presentation.

WSCP 81000 - Romantic sensibilities: Form and Affect
GC                    W 11:45-1:45 p.m., Room TBA , 3 credits, Prof. Nancy Yousef [94773] [Cross listed with Eng. 84200]

This course will explore the varied forms and expression of "sensibility"--a cultural phenomenon originating in the enlightenment, amplified and critiqued in the romantic era, and extending even to early Victorian writing. At once a measure of psychological depth, emotional responsiveness, and ethical insight, "sensibility" and a cluster of terms associated with it (benevolence, virtue, compassion, heart, sympathy, community, affection) are not only prevalent in fiction and poetry, but are also widely contested in political, philosophical and aesthetic debates of the period that has sometimes been called the "Romantic century" (1750-1850). Beginning with its early roots in eighteenth century theories of natural "moral sense" (in David Hume and Adam Smith), we will then read two hugely influential European works that virtually defined the character of sensibility: Rousseau's tale of virtuous struggle and triangulated love, Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise, and Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, a virtual manifesto for uncompromised passion. The middle section of the course will be taken up with three related but distinct manifestations of sensibility in British Romanticism. The Poetry of Sensibility will sample representative works by Charlotte Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Letitia Landon. The Politics of Sensibility will consider how fractious debates over the French Revolution in England reshape the language of sentiment in socially-engaged prose of the period (readings will include selections from Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Godwin). The Aesthetics of Sensibility will consider how several important articulations of romantic poetic practice both incorporate and challenge the cult of feeling (readings from William Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, and Percy Byssche Shelley). The course will conclude with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: three novels that emerge from, and offer powerful but distinct critiques of the culture of sensibility.
Course requirements: Short response papers, one presentation on primary texts or on selected recent criticism, 15-20 page essay.

WSCP 81000 - Women and the Family in the United states: 1800 to the Present
GC                    W 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Barbara Welter[94774] [Cross listed with Hist. 75500]

This course will deal with the changes in the role of women in their private and public spheres in such areas as work, education, religion, literature and politics. The students will be asked to read both primary and secondary sources for each topic, and to write two research papers: one on some aspect of the 19th century Women's Movement and one on the 20th Century Women's Movement. We will pay particular attention to sources in which women's own voices can be heard, such as diaries, autobiographies, oral histories and fiction.

WSCP 81000 - International Lesbian & Gay/Queer Studies
GC                   T 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Profs. Paisley Currah & Ananya Mukherjea [94775]
                         [Cross listed with IDS. 70100]

An introduction to the field of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and queer studies from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The course will focus on interdisciplinary scholarship on the communities, histories, literatures, and cultures of sexual minorities as well as on work that examines the broader role of sexuality and desire in deploying and securing cultural and social power. We will explore a range of issues currently animating this inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary field, including the debates over canon formation, methodological and theoretical approaches, the role of feminism in LGBTQ studies, and the integration of transgender studies into the field.

WSCP 81000 - The Fabric of Cultures
GC                    R 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Profs. Eugenia Paulicelli & Joseph Glick [94776]
                          [Cross listed with IDS. 81610]

In The Condition of Postmodernity David Harvey notes that it is vital to gain a critical understanding of how "the production of images and of discourses" is "part and parcel of the reproduction and transformation of any symbolic order." Fashion is central to the profound shifts and transformations in both production and consumption that take place in given social and cultural spaces. The present course will analyze in depth the implications of various theories of postmodernity (Harvey, Appadurai, Jameson, Deleuze). The course will also focus on theories of cultural production and aesthetics (Bourdieau, Shusterman). These texts will ground the research into fashion and dress cultures that the second part of the course will be concerned with. Special attention will be given to case studies drawn from both Western and Eastern cultures (China, India, New York, Africa, Latin America and Britain). We will also examine the role of fashion in constructing "national identity" and local and global cultures. In addition, we will discuss the drastic changes that have occurred since the 1970s and the impact they have had on fashion production, consumption and cultural production in a globalized world.
For more information about the course or a copy of the syllabus contact the professors at email addresses.

WSCP 81000 - Food, Culture and Society
GC                    R 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA, 3 credits, Profs. Barbara Katz Rothman & Jon Deutsch [94778]
                         [Cross listed with IDS. 81640 & Soc. 82800]

This course explores major issues in foodways—food habits from production through consumption—through readings and discussions as well as through primary research in food and society. The scholarly study of food invokes issues of gender, class, labor, and cultural identities and demands an interdisciplinary approach. Theoretical frameworks include the food voice (Hauck-Lawson), cultural studies, political economy, and symbolic interactionism.

WSCP 81000 - Social Movements in the US
GC                    W 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Frances Fox Piven[94779]
                          [Cross listed with Pol. Sci. 72410, Soc. 84600 & ASCP 82000]

This course has two main parts. We will begin with an examination of the major theories which purport to explain the origins of movements, the forms they take, and their consequence. We will give particular attention to the understandings of power implicit or explicit in different perspectives on movements and their impact. I will use this occasion to discuss what I think is a distinctive perspective on power and movements which I am developing in connection with my own work. The second part of the course is empirical. We will look at a series of American protest movements, which, in complex ways, altered the patterns of American politics, and may have also changed American political institutions. In particular, we will focus on the 19th century movement for emancipation, 19th and 20th century labor protests, black protests, some of the "new social movements" (including the movements that focus on sexual behaviors and gender identities which have become so important in American politics), and the emerging protests here and elsewhere associated with globalization. The requirements for this course include regular participation in discussion, which means timely completion of reading assignments. Your grade will be based on your participation in class, and on a final take-home exam. If you prefer to do a research paper, please discuss this with me. If I agree, I will be available for consultation about your topic and sources.

WSCP 81000 - Citizen Participation & Community Organizations
GC                    T 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Marilyn Gittell[94780] [Cross listed with Pol. Sci. 73908]

An in-depth analysis of democratic theory and its relevance to the creation of responsive public policies, especially as regards excluded populations. Issues of race and gender will be of primary concern. The single most important question to be addressed by the seminar is how policies which undermine the democratic process and marginalize large segments of the population can be changed. Emphasis will be on the role of democratic localism, citizen participation and community organization and their effect on the building of social capital and civil society. How these concepts and practices contribute to policies which work towards inclusion and social change will be discussed. Although a major portion of the reading will be on the U.S. political experience the course will also include comparative readings on other political systems. The syllabus will be available on the web. A research paper will be required

WSCP 81000 - Feminist Political Thought
GC                   T 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Rosalind Petchesky[94781]
                         [Cross listed with Pol. Sci. 80601]

This course sets out from the deconstruction of its own foundational terms: Can there be a feminist political theory when feminisms—and women—are racially-ethnically pluralized and globally polyversal? When "gender" is no longer readable as merely signifying "women" and "men," but those categories themselves have become translated by trans movements and sexual, racial and geographical diversities? What might justice (erotic justice, gender justice, racial justice) mean in the face of these current complications, of both discourses and social movements? In other words, our task will be to rethink the politics of contemporary feminist thought through the lenses of queer theory, women of color and critical race theory, transnational feminisms, Indian and African feminisms, and the ways each of these has challenged the power dynamics of feminism's supposed "core" and the very boundaries of the political.
The course will be conducted in an informal seminar style, with discussions focused on readings by a wide range of contemporary writers (Lila Abu-Lughod, Gloria Anzaldúa, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paisley Currah, Zillah Eisenstein, Ratna Kapur, Maria Lugones, Amina Mama, Chandra Mohanty, Uma Narayan, Joan Wallach Scott, and others too numerous to mention). Students taking the course for credit will be required to submit a mid-term take-home exam and a final paper (involving primarily analysis and argument rather than empirical research) as well as making two in-class oral presentations during the semester. The course is open to political science majors with a particular interest in political theory and/or gender/feminist/queer studies as well as to students majoring in allied fields (philosophy, sociology, anthropology, women's studies).

WSCP 81000 - Psychology of Women’s Health
GC                    M 9:30-11:30 a.m, Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Tracey Revenson [94782]
                          [Cross listed with Psych. 80103]

This course introduces students to current theory and research on women's health issues, provides students with an opportunity to evaluate the literature, and considers the relationship between women's health, social status and social change. Through readings, class discussions, and written assignments, the class will challenge untested assumptions about differential risk factors and the delivery of health care to women, and women's health-related roles, behaviors and position in society. We will examine in depth a number of health issues across the life stages and develop a research agenda for issues in women's health that have not yet received a great deal of research attention.

WSCP 81000 - Political Ecology and Environment Justice
GC                    W 2:00-4:00 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Cindi Katz [94783] [Cross listed with Psych.80103]

Political ecology and environmental justice are areas of intense contemporary debate, the former commonly associated with the global south and the latter with the north. Yet scholars and practitioners working in these fields share similar concerns with the uneven effects of production, social reproduction, distribution, privatization, social justice, and inequalities in harms and benefits. This seminar will critically examine the theories and practices of political ecology, environmental justice, and the production of nature across the disparate geographies of north and south, urban and rural, and at a number of scales focusing on issues such as environmental conservation, nature preservation, biodiversity, eco-tourism, industrial agriculture, and green capitalism. Using the events and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as case study, we will engage current debates over ‘sustainable development,' environmental racism, the limits of environmental management, and what is ‘natural' about natural disasters.

WSCP 81000 -The Ethnography of Space and Place
GC                   W 2:00-4:00 p.m., Room TBA ,3 credits, Prof. Setha Low [94785] [Cross listed with Psych.80103]

This course sketches some of the methodological implications of the ethnographic study of the contemporary city using anthropological tools of participant observation, interviewing, behavioral mapping, and discourse analysis, and theories of space and place to illuminate spaces in modern/post-modern cities and their transformations. In doing so, I wish to underscore links between the shape, vision and experience of cities and the meanings that their citizens read off screens and streets into their own lives. It begins with a discussion of spatializing culture, that is the way that culture is produced and expressed spatially, and the way that space reflects and changes culture. The concepts of culture and space are then materially and theoretically linked through an exploration of six areas of focus: Embodied Spaces (proxemics, phenomenology of space, language and space, and spatial orientation), Gendered Spaces (female and male spaces, and evolution of the house and home), Contested Spaces (spaces of resistance and conflict, and hierarchies expressed in space and place), Transnational and Translocal Spaces (markets, nations, and ethnoscapes), Inscribed Spaces (places of memory and longing), and Spatial Tactics (heterotopias, gated communities, and historically preserved spaces).

The course also explores a number of special topics including how urban fear is transforming the built environment and the nature of public space both in the ways that we are conceiving the re/building our cities, and in the ways that residential suburbs are being transformed into gated and walled enclaves of private privilege and public exclusion. The privatization of public space first signaled the profound changes that American cities are undergoing in terms of their physical, social and cultural design. Currently, however, increased fear of violence and others particularly in urban areas is producing new community and public space forms; locked neighborhoods, blank faced malls in urban areas, armed guard dogs on public plazas, and limited access housing developments are just some examples of how the cultural mood is being "written" on the landscape.

WSCP 81000 -Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture
GC                   W 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Catherine Silver [94786] [Cross listed with Soc. 80500]

This seminar introduces students to theoretical frameworks (Freudian, Object Relations, Kleinien, and Lacanian) that look at the interstice and interaction of gendered self, culture and politics around issues of social violence, racisms and wars. The role of unconscious desires, ambivalence, narcissism and trauma play a central role in the socio-psychoanalytic analysis of the ways institutional demands and personal experiences are constructed and de-constructed onto practices and ideologies that reproduce social and psychic structures. Issues regarding the meaning of collective social and political action and forms of acting-out are explored as well as making these concerns central to social theorizing.
Readings include works by Freud, Klein, Rustin, Sacks, Kristeva, Lacan, Cheng, Smelser, Fanon, Memmi, Elliott, Salecl and Zizek and others.
Students are expected to write either two short papers or a full research paper during the semester and make an oral presentation.

WSCP 81000 - Critical Issues in Contemporary Feminism
GC                    T 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Hester Eisenstein[94787] [Cross listed with Soc. [83300]

This course will consider some approaches to feminism in the contemporary context. We will pay attention to the relation of the current streams of the women's movement to the Western political tradition; and to the issues of race, class, sexuality, nation, religion, and imperialism that have been raised in recent years. What is the significance of global feminism? Can the historic conflicts between white women and women of color be healed within a multicultural women's movement? Are the varieties of contemporary feminism still a radical force for change?

WSCP 81000 - Race and Ethnicity
GC                    M 2:00-4:00 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Philip Kasinitz[94788] [Cross listed with Soc. 85800]

WSCP 81000 - Social Welfare Policy and Planning II
H                      T 2:00-4:00 p.m.,Room TBA , 3 credits, Prof. Mimi Abramovitz [94789] [Cross listed with SSW 71000]