This course focuses on how the major Asian religious traditions construct gender and legitimize certain gender roles. Traditions covered include...
A study of selected novels by Jane Austen, including Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Her letters and juvenilia may also be considered, as well as some...
An examination of various themes in the history of peace and war using gender as a central category of analysis. Theoretical literature and...
A study of gender issues relating to the role of women in music from antiquity to the present, emphasizing both classical and popular music within...
This course explores the ways in which Early Modern European women experienced, participated in, shaped, and responded to the world they inhabited. It...
A reading course permitting a student to work with any member of the faculty participating in Women's Studies at UW. To be arranged with the Women's...
This course explores selected works by women writers of the Italian 16th century by focusing on their modes of adherence or challenge to the...
An examination of sociological theories of gender and gender relations. Emphasis is placed on tracing historical changes in interpretations of gender,...
Special topics in feminist philosophy, women philosophers and/or the philosophy of sex, as announced by the Department of Philosophy. Prereq: Level...
This course will examine works by and about women in early modern Hispanic culture (16th and 17th centuries), with particular attention to engagements...
This course offers the opportunity for independent study of specialized areas, theory and methodology, texts, discourses and writers of interest in...
Directed reading and research in a selected area of Women's Studies inquiry. [Note: A numeric grade for WS 499A will be submitted only after the...
Directed reading and research in a selected area of Women's Studies inquiry.Department Consent Required Prereq: WS 499A; Level at least 4A Honours...