As women perform gender, so too do they perform culture. In this course we will explore the links between gender and modern Latin American culture through a study of nineteenth through twenty-first century feminist critical theories and self-representations. We will look at the construction of the female subject and her double, or 'other,' through travel writing, political writing, revolutionary testimonies, plays, and letters alongside the plastic arts.

This course introduces students to the major themes of U.S. women's history from the 1880s to the present. We will look both at the experiences of a diverse group of women in the U.S. as well as the ideological meaning of gender as it evolved and changed over the twentieth century. We will chart the various meanings of womanhood (for example, motherhood, work, the domestic sphere, and sexuality) along racial, ethnic, and class lines and in different regions, and will trace the impact multiple identities have had on women's social and cultural activism.

A multicultural feminist analysis of women's lives around the world. Emphasizing the diversity of women's experience across ethnicity, social class, and sexuality, this course examines existing psychological theory and research on women. In the fall, the course will have a strong international emphasis.

This course will provide an overview of psychological disorders and research on the etiology and treatment of these disorders. The course will consider and evaluate the concept of 'abnormality' with particular emphasis on intersections of mental health and disorders with culture, race, class, and gender.

This course is designed to introduce students to important political questions in the field of feminist theory. We will begin the course by attending to the distinction between sex and gender and its relevance to feminism yesterday and today, exploring ways that the intersex movement, queer theory, and other gender politics complicate feminist concerns. In addition, we will explore the development of popular feminist ideas, such as women's rights, reproductive freedom, and agency.

We will be reading a number of key feminist texts that theorize the construction of sexual difference, and challenge the oppression of women. We will then address queer theory, an offshoot and expansion of feminist theory, and study how it is both embedded in, and redefines, the feminist paradigms. This redefinition occurs roughly at the same time (1980s/90s) when race emerges as one of feminism's prominent blind spots.

This course will address the predicaments of women who must negotiate local contexts shaped by transnational markets, changing patterns of agriculture and agro-forestry, and struggles over indigenous land rights. How have arguments about democracy shaped the struggles women take up locally, nationally, and transnationally in opposition to corporate power, national policies, and supranational agencies such as the World Trade Organization?

This course presents an opportunity for students to apply gender theory to practice and synthesize their work in gender studies. Connections between the academy and the community, scholarship and social action will be emphasized. Students will arrange for a placement at a nonprofit organization, business, or institution that incorporates a gender focus. A weekly seminar with other students provides a structured reflection forum to analyze experience and methods.

This course will examine the writing of Emily Dickinson, both her poetry and her letters. We will consider the cultural, historical, political, religious, and familial environment in which she lived. Special attention will be paid to Dickinson's place as a woman artist in the nineteenth century. The class will meet at the Dickinson Museum (280 Main Street in Amherst and accessible by Five College bus). Enrollment is limited to ten students.

This course covers major issues in the anthropology of reproduction, including the relationship between production and reproduction, the gendered division of labor, the state and reproductive policy, embodied metaphors of procreation and parenthood, fertility control and abortion, cross-cultural reproductive ethics, and the social implications of new reproductive technologies. We examine the social construction of reproduction in a variety of cultural contexts.