Various locations in the University Libraries house microfilm sets of archival collections of advocates and organizations, including those of feminist organizing in Brazil, diaries of regional groups of women in the nineteenth century, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The University Libraries developed the Black Queer Studies Collection, a virtual collection that makes visible the libraries' substantial holdings in black diasporic queer materials. Students pursue disciplinary and interdisciplinary research or creative work that prepares them for research or professional careers in which knowledge about women and gender is crucial. Students who complete the program graduate with a greater understanding of the field of women's and gender studies; an understanding of and commitment to resisting interlocking oppressions; critical knowledge of women's human rights; and scholarly connections to the center's faculty.
Admission Potential students apply to both programs, and the two admissions committees review the materials for admission to the respective degree programs. Program Details. UT iSchool. Additional prerequisite: Spanish C or G and three hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish or Spanish Civilization.
Topic Minorities and the Media. Discussion of issues concerning minority or nondominant groups in the United States. Survey of the role of women in Islamic societies from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, with a glimpse into modern times. Survey of the role of women in the modern Muslim world, with a glimpse into historical developments within Islamic societies.
A comprehensive historical overview of gender issues as they are represented in the textual traditions of South Asia. Topic American Popular Culture, Present. Explores the evolution of American popular culture and its relationship to national consolidation, and at times, disunion, over the last years. Topic Islamic Law. Designed to give students a foundation in the substantive teachings of the shariah, which comprises not only what we normally think of as law, but also ethics and etiquette.
Additional prerequisite: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing. Topic Goddesses in World Religions and Cultures. Historical and cross-cultural overview of the relationship between feminine and religious cultural expressions through comparative examinations and analyses of various goddess figures in world religions.
Topic Writing Slavery. Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Topic African Women's History.
Major themes include politics, economics, religion, the family, culture, technology, feminism, colonialism, nationalism, and development in relation to the lives of African women. Topic Antebellum Slavery. Examination of slavery at its maturity during the nineteenth century.
Topic Gender in North and West Africa. Examines gender discourses through North African and West African literary works by looking at the role s played by Islam and Christianity in the creation of the identities of African men and women.
Includes discussion of the question of what gender is, and whether it is socially constructed. Examines the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Topic Tolerance in Dutch Culture. The historical roots of Dutch "tolerance" and how it plays a role in current Dutch culture and attitudes towards religious, gender, and sexual differences, as well as drug use, prostitution, and euthanasia.
Exploration of the stereotypes and the actuality of these Dutch attitudes and policies from an international comparative perspective.
Exploration of black identity, political systems, and community activism in Central America and the Caribbean. Topic History of Southern Africa. Topic Historical Imagining of Africa in Films. Topic Apartheid: South African History. A study of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of South Africa to contextualize the rise of apartheid.
Primarily focuses on the period since from the perspectives of women, children, and men of all racial backgrounds who lived through that particular period. Topic Black Women and Dance. Exploration of how black women express creativity in response to the violence of racism and sexism, and to envision new ways of being and moving in the world. Women's participation in ritual, concert, and social dance in North America, Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil will be studied through readings, viewings, and stagings.
Topic Gender Politics in the Islamic World. Study of the Islamic world and major sociological concepts such as gender, social organizations, culture, and politics. Examines how culture is mediated by politics, resulting in diverse interpretations of Islam and in different policies with respect to women's rights.
Topic Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History. Topic Africana Women's Art. Analysis of the diverse modes of presentation, mediums, definitions, and influences of Africana women artists in the diaspora. Designed to use critical theory and art history found in oral and written literatures, music, films, and other formal and informal documents.
Topic Black Queer Literature and Film. Topic Diaspora Visions. An exploration of border crossing by cultures and groups including Yorubas, Jews, Armenians, Tibetans, Hamish, Pakistanis, and Indians and the production of images by immigrants, exiles, and nomads in alien lands.
Topic Contemporary African Popular Culture. Topic Women and the Holocaust. Introduction to both the history of Jewish and German women during World War II and the Holocaust, and to women's narratives and self-representations of this period. Historical sources, memoirs, films, and interviews will be used as source material.
Topic Medieval Women Mystics. The life and writings of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, fourteenth-century visionary, religious reformer, and pilgrim, examined and compared with her predecessor Hildegard of Bingen Germany , her successor Margery Kempe England , as well as Margery's mentor, Julian of Norwich.
Social and historical contexts for all four of these women mystics will be explored in depth. Topic Sex and Power in the African Diaspora. Exploration of various experiences and theories of sex, intimacy, and desire alongside intellectual and artistic engagements with power hierarchies and spirituality across transnational black communities.
Subjects include the concept of "erotic subjectivity" from various theoretical and methodological angles, principally within African diasporic contexts. Examines women's participation in well-known and lesser-known social movements during the twentieth century. Topic The Qur'an. The history, language, style, and themes of the Qur'an.
Topic Women Filmmakers in the Middle East. Topic Muslim Women in Politics. Topic Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles. Textiles and material objects indigenous to the Islamic world, and what they reveal about the culture of various Islamic societies. Topic Queer Ethnographies. Same as Anthropology L Topic Anthropological analysis of gender and sexuality that critically evaluates formative concepts and theories that have been subject to recent debates within anthropology, gender studies, and queer theory.
Topic Ancient Mediterranean Masculinities. Same as Classical Civilization Topic Examines in-depth literary and artistic evidence from multiple ancient cultures to determine how each society defined the distinctively "masculine" role it expected of men and boys and how each society transformed boys into men. Topic Arendt and de Beauvoir. Additional prerequisite: Upper division standing. Topic Gender and Art in the Muslim World. An introduction to the work of women filmmakers from Scandinavia, Germany, as well as to the viewing and interpretation of films in general.
Topic Holocaust Aftereffects. Explores the historical, political, psychological, theological, and cultural fallout of the Holocaust, as well as literary and cinematic responses in Europe and the United States. Topic Women and Wealth in South Asia. Addresses the questions surrounding poverty of South Asian women by combining legal, political and social histories of the subcontinent over four centuries.
Topic Black Women on Trial. Using press coverage of historical and contemporary court cases and trials of women ranging from Angela Davis to Marissa Alexander, explores how media shapes public and popular perceptions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the law.
Topic Women, Gender, and Black Power. Examines the Black Power Movement through the experiences of African American women activists as well as gender and sexuality constructs that prevailed during the second half of the twentieth century Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Topic Rethinking Blackness. Topic Gwendolyn Brooks. Topic African History in Films and Photographs. Explore the social, economic, and political challenges of the past fifty years of Africa's history through an examination of several popular films. Topic Gender and Modern India. Examines gender and the shifting nature of modernity between precolonial and colonial periods in the Indian subcontinent.
Topic Human Rights and World Politics. Same as Government W. Introduction to the political and policy dimensions of human rights. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing and six hours of lower-division coursework in government.
Topic Reproductive Justice and Race. Examine the links between reproductive care and social inequality, and explore reproductive outcomes for women in the context of social justice. Topic Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry. Topic Islamic Ethics. Topic Iranian and Iranian-American Identity. Topic Race, Capitalism, and the Environment. Topic Black Middle Class.
Topic Fashion And Desire. Topic Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros. Topic Chicana Feminisms. Topic Latina Feminism and Health. Same as Mexican American Studies F. Topic Transnational Latinx Popular Culture. Topic Latinx Short Story. Additional prerequisite: For English majors, nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing; for other majors, upper-division standing. Topic Sexuality and Gender in Latin America.
Explore gender as a broad analytical tool to understand key problems concerning social organization, power relations, and inequality in contemporary Latin America. Topic Italian Television Advertising. Analysis of Italian television commercials in order to identify changes that have taken place at the level of language, with some attention to socio-cultural dynamics. Topic Gender and Labor in Global Asia. Additional prerequisite: For Asian studies majors, twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in Asian studies; for others, upper-division standing.
Explore Black feminism and African-American women's political participation. Additional prerequisite: Six semester hours of lower-division coursework in government and upper-division standing.
Topic Policing Latinidad. Topic Tejana Cultural Studies. Explore how transborderism and transregionalism complicate this history. Contemplate how Tejanas' stories are fundamental to illuminating the struggles, resistance, and liberation of Chicanas, mestizas, and afromexicanas from precontact to decolonization.
Topic Latina Filmmakers. Explore the history of U. Examine early representations of Latinas in Hollywood film and consider how Latina filmmakers have gained increasing control over their own images, particularly since the s.
Four lecture hours a week for one semester. Topic 1: Child Development. Topic 2: The Family. Same as Sociology WGS Portfolio Students are eligilble for to apply for the annual WGS awards and travel funds for presenting relevant work at conferences. For further information about the master's degree program and graduate portfolio program, please contact the Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Coordinator, Alma Jackie Salcedo.
General Inquiries: Graduate Programs in Women's and Gender Studies. Details are available from the graduate advisor of each program and from the WGS graduate coordinator.
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