The Yale University Pink Book
Lesbian and Gay Studies Courses:
Spring 2003
Prepared and Distributed by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay
Studies at Yale University
About The Pink Book
The Pink Book presents a selection of Yale University courses drawn
from the undergraduate and graduate and professional school programs of study.
It is intended as a guide to courses treating issues related to lesbian and
gay studies, such as sexual identity; gender; the gay and lesbian presence
in history, literature, and art; and social, legal, and medical concerns of
homosexuals. The Pink Book may also be used as a guide for selecting
electives in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies major track
in the Women's and Gender Studies department.
Last minute changes that do not appear in the hardcopy
version of the Pink Book appear in red.
Undergraduate Courses
[ a=fall term, b=spring term; *=limited enrollment]
WGST 296b INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES
Jonathan D. Katz
MW 2.30-3.20, 1 HTBA Not CR/D/F III(0)
A study of works that have as their theme gay and lesbian experience and
identity in the twentieth-century United States and Europe. They include
fiction and autobiographical texts, historical and sociological materials,
texts on queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of representing sexuality
and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender,
and nationality. Always, different disciplinary and chronological models
of sexual difference will be examined for evidence of the historically shifting
nature of what only comparatively recently has been called lesbian or gay
identity.
WGST 295b INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES AND FEMINIST THOUGHT
Indira Karamcheti
MW 9.30-10.20, 1 HTBA III(0)
Focus on the manifold issues of the contemporary feminist movement; analysis
of attempts to explain and change women’s status; exploration of feminist
theory using multiethnic perspectives on women’s experience in America
and cross-cultural comparisons with similar movements in other countries.
WGST 352b/*ENGL 359b
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE
Sarah Bilston
TTh 11.30-12.45 Not CR/D/F I(0)
Examination of the sexual politics of literature, criticism, and literary
history in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on how feminist
writers have negotiated the relationship between politics and eroticism.
Topics include women’s fantasy literature (from fairy tales to science
fiction), popular romance, coming out stories, novels exploring race in
relation to sexuality, men in feminism, and pornography. Readings include
a variety of feminist literary theories.
WGST402b LESBIAN AND GAY AMERICAN HISTORY: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH AND
ANALYSIS NEW!
Jonathan Ned Katz
T 2:30-4:20 Not CR/D/F III(0)
An introduction to lesbian and gay American history, emphasizing primary
research and historiography in the field. Topics include age, class, ethnicity,
gender (masculinity and femininity), sexuality (desires, acts, and identities),
affection/ aversion, sexual politics, and their roles in lesbian and gay
American history.
WGST 315b/PSYC 342b PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER
Victoria Brescoll
TTh 9-10.15, 1 HTBA III(22)
Exploration of the relationship between gender and psychological processes
at individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cross-cultural levels.
WGST 436b/*HIST 445b/*HSHM 446b THE WOMEN’S HEALTH MOVEMENT IN THE
1970S
Naomi Rogers
Th 1.30-3.20 Not CR/D/F II(0)
A critical examination of the strengths, weaknesses, and legacy of the
American women's health movement of the 1970s, placed in its social and
political context. Topics include struggles to legalize birth control
and abortion, establishment of alternative health and birthing centers,
and links between feminist health activism and the civil rights and gay
rights movements.
AMST 415b GENDER AND PERFORMANCE IN
AMERICAN CULTURE
Robin Bernstein
W 3.30-5.20 Not CR/D/F II(0)
A study of the construction of gender through performance on stage, on screen,
and in everyday life. Emphasis on ways in which gender intersects with national
and racial identities. Authors include Judith Butler, José Esteban
Muñoz, and Anna Deavere Smith.
ANTH 290b/AFST 290b GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICA
Eric Worby
MW 1-2.15 Not CR/D/F III(36)
Exploration of the diverse and changing ways in which gender and sexuality
are informed by culture, politics, religion, and social organization in
colonial and postcolonial Africa.
ANTH 381b SEXUAL MEANINGS
Harold Scheffler
M 1.30-3.20 Not CR/D/F III(0)
Human sexuality in historical and cross-cultural perspective: the social
and cultural construction of human sexuality; its variability; its relation
to constructions of gender. Topics include biological bases of sexual behavior
and their evolution; relations between sex and gender; homosexuality; rape;
and AIDS.
BRST 438b BRITISH LITERATURE AND THE MODERN METROPOLIS (Yale-in London)
Laura Frost
2 HTBA Not CR/D/F I(50)
An examination of the city of London as it is represented in major texts
of British modernism. Consideration of the ways in which London's famous
streets and districts shaped major works from the period. Authors include
Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia
Woolf.
CLCV 231b/HUMS 315b PRIVATE LIFE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Kim Bowes
MW 11.30-12.45 II(34)
An investigation, using texts and artifacts, of the daily lives of ancient
people, surveying topics such as sex, marriage, housing, education, leisure,
and economy. The period from the Greek Dark Ages through Late Antiquity
(800 B.C.-600 A.D.) is covered chronologically and thematically.
ENGL 242b/*LITR 416b THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Ala Alryyes
Th 1.30-3.20 Not CR/D/F I(0)
Major texts of the European Enlightenment. Themes include the relationship
of the individual to family and society, the political function of the body
and pornography, the theatricality of the self and education, the limitations
of language and communication, the rights of women, and the value of history.
Works by Laclos, Beaumarchais, Rousseau, Diderot, Olympe de Gouges, Locke,
Hume, Bentham, Swift, Gay, Johnson, Vico, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Kant, al-Jabarti,
al-Tahtawi, and others.
For English majors, pre-1800 with permission of the instructor and the director
of undergraduate studies
FILM 371b AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA: 1945 TO THE PRESENT
Mia Mask
M 1.30-3.20; Screenings SU 7.00p Not CR/D/F II(0)
An examination of the role of race and the reconstruction of American identity
in the postwar era. Topics include the influence of legislation, social
protest, and desegregation on American film, as well as the second (Blaxploitation,
1970-80) and third (ghettocentricity, 1989-96) waves of black independent
filmmaking. Readings in film studies, critical race theory, queer theory,
and cultural studies.
HSAR 283bG/HUMS 251b /RNST 258b LIFE, LOVE, AND ART AT THE RENAISSANCE COURTS
Anne Dunlop
TTh 2.30-3.45 Not CR/D/F II(27)
An examination of the role of art in European courts between about 1300
and 1550, as displayed in such areas as clothing, table manners, music,
games, and tourneys. Major themes include the depiction of the sovereign's
body, the cult of war and chivalry, and the representation of love and desire.
HIST 234b EPIDEMICS AND SOCIETY IN THE WEST SINCE 1600
Frank Snowden
TTh 10.30-11.20 1 HTBA II(23)
A study of the impact of epidemic diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera,
malaria, and AIDS on society, public health, and the medical profession
in comparative and international perspective. Topics include popular culture
and mass hysteria, the mortality revolution, urban renewal and rebuilding,
sanitation, the germ theory of disease, the emergence of scientific medicine,
and debates over the biomedical model of disease.
HSHM 215bG/HIST 240b PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA, 1793-2000
Naomi Rogers
TTh 9.30-10.20, 1 HTBA Not CR/D/F II(22)
A survey of public health in America from the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
to AIDS and breast cancer activism at the end of the past century. Focusing
on medicine and the state, topics include quarantines, medical and social
welfare failures and successes, the experiences of healers and patients,
and organized medicine and its critics.
LITR 300bG/ENGL 300b INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE
Pericles Lewis
MWF 11.30-12.20 Not CR/D/F I(34)
An examination of concepts and assumptions present in contemporary views
of literature. Theory of meaning, interpretation, and representation. Critical
analysis of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, poststructuralist,
Marxist, and feminist approaches to theory and to literature.
REL 743 FEMINIST LIBERATION AND FEMINIST PASTORAL
THEOLOGIES
Kristen Leslie, Letty Russell.
T 1:30-4:20
In this course we will engage in theological reflection on the meaning
of community in a world of difference and alienation. The themes of difference,
hospitality, and community will be explored from the perspective of feminist
liberation and feminist pastoral theologies. Readings will be drawn from
both disciplines and integrated through
common methodology and practical application in the life of the church.
SBCR 245b/*RSEE 283b CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEHAVIOR IN THE LITERATURES OF
THE SOUTH SLAVS
Slobodan Novak
Th 3.30-5.20 Not CR/D/F I(0)
Ideas of geography, ethnicity, sexuality, and family in Croatian, Serbian,
and Slovenian literature from the preromantic period to the present. Themes
of regional mythology, the psychology of love, exile, and family strife.
Readings and discussion in English.
SOCY 134b/WGST 311b SEX AND GENDER IN SOCIETY
Jennifer Bair
TTh 9-10.15 Not CR/D/F III(22)
Exploration of the relationship between sex, gender, sexuality, and society.
Questions of how sex and gender shape the way individuals experience the
world and how these identities are shaped by social structures and processes.
Topics include sexual inequality; sex, gender, and the body; gender and
work; gender and the state; and masculinity.
SPAN 336b (21263) / THEATER OF THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE
Simone Pinet
TTh 2.30-3.45 I(0)
Survey of the greatest plays and authors of the Spanish Golden Age, considered
in a historical and social context. Authors include Lope de Rueda, Lope
de Vega, Cervantes, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz, and Calderón de la Barca.
Graduate and Professional School Courses
[a=fall term, b=spring term]
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
GRADUATE COURSES
AMST 869b RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM IN WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
Laura Wexler/Margaret Homans
M 7.00-9.00p
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 WGST 900b.
ANTH 626b ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND HEALTH
Linda-Anne Rebhun
Examines how issues of gender articulate with health as examined by anthropologists.
Topics include women’s health (reproductive issues, STDs, sexual violence,
genital surgery, etc.), men’s health (especially alcohol and drug use,
STDs, violence, occupational issues), and issues of sexual identity, with
a special emphasis on political, economic, and cultural aspects of gender
and health. In addition, we look at moral/political issues like abortion
and new reproductive technologies from an anthropological perspective.
SCHOOL OF NURSING
YSN 559b ADULT DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE
Ivy Alexander
1 credit hour
Human development from adolescence through late adulthood is considered
by applying theoretical perspectives to selected examples from literature
and life experience. Seminars focus on developmental theory and its application
to developmental transitions and alterations in health during adolescence
and adulthood. Required for all adult, family, and women’s health nurse
practitioner students. Open to others with permission of the instructor.
One hour per week.
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