printer friendly pageFEMGEN 3B: Trans History: The Long View (HISTORY 3B)
This mini-course explores the history of gender crossing and transgressions, broadly defined. A series of Stanford faculty and one visitor will present historical interpretations of who, why, and how individuals have crossed gender boundaries, as well as how different societies have reacted to gender crossing. The topics range across time from medieval to modern times and across geographic regions from Europe, China, and Iran to the Americas. Short reading assignments will be made available for each class meeting; students must attend all five sessions, complete the readings, and write a summary paper to receive one unit of credit for the series.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Findlen, P. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Griffiths, F. (PI)
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Instructors:
Findlen, P. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Griffiths, F. (PI)
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Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
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Sommer, M. (PI)
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Stokes, L. (PI)
FEMGEN 5C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, EMED 5C, HISTORY 5C, HUMBIO 178T)
(Same as
History 105C. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 105C.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution and labor exploitation, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development and spread of human trafficking. Analyzes the current international and domestic legal and policy frameworks to combat trafficking and evaluates their practical implementation. Examines the medical, psychological, and public health issues involved. Uses problem-based learning. Students interested in service learning should consult with the instructor and will enroll in an additional course.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
FEMGEN 7W: Service-Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking Part II (HISTORY 7W)
Prerequisite:
History 6W. Two-quarter service-learning workshop to accompany course, "Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives." Considers purpose and practice of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Students work with community partners dedicated to confronting human trafficking and problems it entails on a daily basis. Must currently be enrolled in or have previously taken
History 5C/105C ((
FEMGEN 5C/105C,
HUMBIO 178T,
SOMGEN 205,
INTNLREL 105C).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
FEMGEN 11SI: Protecting your Bubble: Self Defense Strategies for College Students
This course will offer self defense training for students, with a focus on mental and physical defense, primarily against sexual assault. The course will focus on an "empowerment" method of self defense, seeking to provide tools and build confidence in students for a variety of situations. Students will participate in group discussions on the topic of sexual assault on college campuses, as well as physical and mental self defense tactics both to build confidence in any situation, prevent assault, and to employ in dangerous situations.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Dauber, M. (PI)
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Hanlon, P. (PI)
FEMGEN 12SI: A Road to Diversity Inclusion: Learning to Embrace the Intersection of Identities with Athletics
This course explores the interaction of one¿s identities within the context of athletics. With an emphasis on the importance of self awareness and storytelling, we will navigate how all identities intersect and affect the privilege we receive within current society. We will specifically look at how race, ethnicity, sexual orientations, religion, socioeconomic status, mental health, and disabilities interact with our identity as athletes. ¿A Road to Diversity Inclusion: Learning to Embrace the Intersection of Identities within Athletics¿ will help athletes find their voice and use it for positive social change within their communities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Hanlon, P. (PI)
FEMGEN 36N: Gay Autobiography (HISTORY 36N)
Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a defining feature of their selves? Is there a difference between the way men and women view identity? What politics follow from these writers' experiences?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Robinson, P. (PI)
FEMGEN 54N: African American Women's Lives (AFRICAAM 54N, AMSTUD 54N, CSRE 54N, HISTORY 54N)
Preference to freshmen. We will examine the struggles of African American women to define their own lives and improve the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of black communities. Topics will include women's enslavement and freedom, kinship and family relations, institution and community building, violence, labor and leisure, changing gender roles, consumer and beauty culture, social activism, and the politics of sexuality.
Terms: Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Hobbs, A. (PI)
FEMGEN 69S: Race, Science, and Medicine in U.S. History (CSRE 69M, HISTORY 69S)
How have scientific ideas about race been shaped by their historical contexts, and what effects do these ideas have on people, institutions, law, and medicine? Is racial science always racist science? How do ideas about race intersect with ideas about gender, class, and disability? This course explores how natural philosophers and scientists have defined, used, and sometimes challenged ideas about race from the eighteenth century to today. Topics include medicine and slavery, eugenics, sociology, psychiatry, race-based medicine, and genetic ancestry. This course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
LeBlanc, H. (PI)
FEMGEN 103: Feminist Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMGEN 203, PHIL 153, PHIL 253)
(Graduate Students register for
PHIL 253 or
FEMGEN 203) Concepts and questions distinctive of feminist and LGBT scholarship and how they shape research: gender, intersectionality, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, standpoint, "queering," postmodern critiques, postcolonial critiques.nPrerequisites: Feminist Studies 101 or equivalent with consent of instructor.nNOTE: This course must be taken for a letter grade and a minimum of 3 units to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Longino, H. (PI)
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Cooper, E. (TA)
FEMGEN 105: Honors Work
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Blaydes, L. (PI)
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Brooks, H. (PI)
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Brown, N. (PI)
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Instructors:
Blaydes, L. (PI)
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Brooks, H. (PI)
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Brown, N. (PI)
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Coll, K. (PI)
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Davies, A. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hadlock, H. (PI)
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Hanlon, P. (PI)
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Jain, S. (PI)
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Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Lunsford, A. (PI)
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Menon, J. (PI)
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Miner, V. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Murray, A. (PI)
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Myers, K. (PI)
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Robinson, P. (PI)
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Schiebinger, L. (PI)
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Sohn, S. (PI)
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Tallent, E. (PI)
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Tanaka, S. (PI)
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Voss, B. (PI)
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Wotipka, C. (PI)
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Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
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