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Women's and Gender Studies

315 WLH, 100 Wall, 432.0845

Chair
Margaret Homans (English; Women's & Gender Studies)

Professors
Linda Bartoshuk (Psychology), Kelly Brownell (Psychology), Jill Campbell (English), Hazel Carby (African American Studies; American Studies), Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Deborah Davis (Sociology; East Asian Studies), Kathryn Dudley (American Studies), Glenda Gilmore (History), Paul Gilroy (Sociology; African American Studies), Ingeborg Glier (German), Sara Suleri Goodyear (English), Dolores Hayden (Architecture; American Studies), Margaret Homans (English; Women's & Gender Studies), Paula Hyman (History; Religious Studies), Matthew Jacobson (History; American Studies), Vera Kutzinski (American Studies; African American Studies; English), Marianne LaFrance (Psychology; Women's & Gender Studies), Charles Musser (Film Studies; American Studies), Frances Rosenbluth (Political Science), Cynthia Russett (History), Harold Scheffler (Anthropology), Naomi Schor (French), Vicki Schultz (Law School), Helen Siu (Anthropology), William Summers (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Laura Wexler (American Studies; Women's & Gender Studies), Robert Wyman (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology)

Associate Professors
Nora Groce (Epidemiology & Public Health), Janet Henrich (School of Medicine), Serene Jones (Divinity School), Linda-Anne Rebhun (Anthropology)

Assistant Professors
Jennifer Bair (Sociology), Jessica Brantley (English), Hannah Brueckner (Sociology), Alicia Schmidt Camacho (American Studies), Kamari Clarke (Anthropology), Elizabeth Dillon (English), Laura Frost (English), Mary Lui (History), Michael Mahoney (History), Naomi Rogers (Women's & Gender Studies; History of Medicine), Lidia Santos (Spanish & Portugese), Michael Trask (English)

Lecturers
Sarah Bilston, Pamela Bro, Geetanjali Singh Chanda, Vron Ware (Sociology)

Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field, establishes gender and sexuality as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis. It offers new critical perspectives from which to study the diversity of human experience. The introduction of these perspectives into all fields of knowledge necessitates new research, criticism of existing research, and the formulation of new paradigms and organizing concepts. Gender—the social meaning of the distinction between the sexes—and sexuality—sexual practices, identities, discourses, and institutions—are studied as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity, and nationality.

Faculty members affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies are available to graduate students as advisers, and they offer graduate courses of relevance to Women's and Gender Studies in their own departments and schools (most frequently African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Divinity, English, History, Law, Psychology, and Sociology). Graduate students may draw on these resources to develop a focus on Women's and Gender Studies while working toward degrees in their chosen disciplines.

Program materials are available on request from the Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Yale University, PO Box 208319, New Haven CT 06520-8319.

Courses
WGST 900b, Research Colloquium in Women's and Gender Studies. Laura Wexler.
An interdisciplinary research seminar investigating contemporary theory and methods in women's and gender studies. Requirements include a research paper, works-in-progress presentations, peer reviews, and reviews of the critical literature in a variety of humanities and social science fields. Also AMST 869b.

Related Courses

AFAM 712b, Modernity and Its Others: Self, Subject, and Cultural Differences. Paul Gilroy.
Also SOCY 650b.

AMST 922a, Gender, Territory, and Space. Dolores Hayden.

CPLT 784b, Literature and Psychoanalysis. Shoshana Felman.
Also FREN 784b.

CPLT 951a, Venus and Adonis: Beauty in Art and the Cult of the Beautiful Body. Winfried Menninghaus.
Also GMAN 707a.

ENGL 814b, Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Myths, Memoirs, Marketplace. Linda Peterson.

ENGL 923a, Race, Nation, and American Modernisms. Vera Kutzinski.
Also AFAM 568a, AMST 766a.

HSAR 633a, Desire in the Renaissance. Anne Dunlop.

LAW 20303, Feminist Theory Seminar. V. Schultz.

LAW 20307, Family Law. S. Shapiro.

LAW 21341, Genetics, Ethics, and Law: Research Seminar. R. A. Burt.

LAW 21378, Work and Gender. V. Schultz.

PSYC 777, Research Topics in Gender and Psychology. Marianne LaFrance.

REL 975b, Women in Religious Education. Yolanda Smith.

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