S-Rom,Rhet,Realtes/Women&Sust

The 2014 United Nations Survey Report on the role of women in development makes a strong case for linking gender equality and sustainable development. Neither concerns about gender equality nor sustainability are new, but are re-emerging as part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. This class examines perceived and existing links between economic development, women, and gender from various perspectives.

S-Monogamy:QuFem/PolBelong

Grounded in queer and feminist concerns with marriage and coupled forms of social belonging, this class will consider "monogamy" from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. From the history of marriage to the science of mating systems to the politics of polyamory, the class will explore monogamy's meanings. Students will become familiar with these and other debates about monogamy, a variety of critical approaches to reading and engaging them, and fields of resistance to a variety of "monogamy stories" within and beyond the academy.

S-Monogamy:QuBelong/FemComm

Grounded in queer and feminist concerns with marriage and coupled forms of social belonging, this class will consider "monogamy" from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. From the history of marriage to the science of mating systems to the politics of polyamory, the class will explore monogamy's meanings. Students will become familiar with these and other debates about monogamy, a variety of critical approaches to reading and engaging them, and fields of resistance to a variety of "monogamy stories" within and beyond the academy.

17C Comic Vision

Course taught in French. A cross-generic study of the representation of the writer at work and the interrelationship between literature and society in Moliere's time. Emphasis on works by Moliere, La Fontaine, Bussy-Rabutin, Mme de Sevigne.

S-Sex & Liberation: The 1970s

As a result of changing understandings of and attitudes towards women?s sexuality, homosexuality, and premarital sexuality, as well as the rise of new social movements such as the women?s and gay liberation movement, new technologies such as the birth control pill, and legal triumphs like Roe v. Wade, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed a "sexual revolution" in the United States and indeed in much of the world. Among other things, the sexual revolution was marked by new forms of sexual expression and practices and new visions for sexual relations, ethics, and sexual-social organization.
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