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Annual Women, Race and Culture Lecture
The concentration in Women, Race and Culture seeks to understand gender as a category of analysis in the context of race, class, ethnicity and nationality. To that end, we seek to problematize issues of identity, genre, policy and practice specifically as they pertain to women. Implicit in our position is the belief that there is no one universal feminist standpoint and that gender oppression has much to do with the politics of location and dislocation.
Our focus is on gauging how relations of power have shaped women's knowledge, social practices and forms of resistance. We emphasize the distinct modes of analysis that women of color have brought to understanding their condition and how these are reflected in their political struggles: indigenous epistemologies, third and fourth world feminisms, black feminisms, womanisms, socialism.
The subjects that we cover include women and work, women as culture makers, writers, artists, performers, family as a site of resistance and domination, women and nationalism, images and representations of women of color, self representations, colonial and postcolonial identities, militarization, migrations, global capitalism, human rights, activism and community practice.
Courses that count towards the Women, Race and Culture Concentration (check Smith College catalog to determine if course if offered this academic year)
SWG 101 Women, Race and Culture
SWG 212 Overseas Filipina Workers, Sexualities, and the State
SWG 210 Issues in Transnational Feminism: Reading Women’s Resistance in Muslim Societies
SWG 214 Migration, Gender and Transculturation
SWG 230 Women, Struggle and Resistance in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Middle East
SWG 300 Special Topics: Women, Culture and Development
SWG 303 Afro-Caribbean Women Writers
SWG 311 Mothers in Law and Policy
SWG 316 Seminar: Feminist Theories of Cross-Border Organizing
SWG 320 Women of Color in Feminist Movements in the U.S. (former special topic in SWG 300)
SWG 330 Women’s Movements, Feminisms and the State
AAS 209 Feminism, Race and Resistance: History of Black Women in America
AAS 211 Black Cultural Theory
AAS 212 Culture and Class in the Afro-American Family
AAS 220 Women of the African Diaspora
AAS 248 Gender in the Afro-American Literary Tradition
AAS 300 Writing Race, Writing Gender
AAS 326 The Socio-Cultural Development of the Afro-American Woman
AAS 348 Black Women Writers
AAS 350 Race and Representation: Afro-Americans in Film
AAS 366 African American Women’s History
AAS 366 Womanist/Feminist Thought
AAS 366 Black Feminist Theories
AAS 366 Ida B. Wells and the Struggle Against Racial Violence
AAS 366 Sisters of the Spirit: Black Women’s Autobiography and the Psychology of Women
AAS 366 Toni Morrison
AAS 366 Readings in Black and Queer
AMS 230 Colloquium: The Asian American Experience: Asian Women Living in the Americas
ANT 244 Gender, Science and Culture
ANT 254 Gender, Media, Culture
ANT 251 Women and Modernity in Asia
ANT 254 South Asian Women: Narratives of Marginalization and Resistance
ANT 347 Writing Culture Through Fiction
CLT 267 African Women's Drama
CLT 268 Latina and Latin American Women Writers
CLT 278 Madness in Women’s Novels of Africa and the Caribbean
CLT 315 Feminist Novel in Africa
CLT 315 Gender Issues in African Women's Narratives
EAL 238 Literature from Taiwan
EAL 244 Constructions of Gender in Modern Japanese Women’s Writing
EAL 261 Major Themes in Literature: East-West Perspectives: Gendered Fate
EAL 360 Topics in East Asian Literatures: The Tale of Genji and Its Legacy
EAL 360 Topics in East Asian Literatures: Contemporary Chinese Women’s Fiction
EAS 230 Women of Korea from the Three Kingdoms Period to the Present
EAS 350 Modern Girls and Marxist Boys: Consumerism, Colonialism, and Gender in East Asia
ENG 278 Writing Women: Asian-American Women Writers
ENG 354 Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
ENG 391 Modern South Asian Writers
FRN 230 Black Francophone Women Writers
FRN 230 Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean
GOV 232 Women and Politics in Africa
HST 101 Introduction to Historical Inquiry: Topic: Geisha, Wise Mothers, and Working Women
HST 259 Aspects of African History: Race and Gender in Colonial Africa
HST 263 Continuity and Change in Spanish America and Brazil: Gender in the Study of Latin American History
LAS 202 Talking Back to Icons: Latino/a Artistic Expression
LAS 301 Topics in Latin American and Latino/a Studies: Topic: Temporary Latina Playwrights and Performers
MUS 100 Music and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
MUS 220 Topics in World Music: Women in Sub-Saharan African Music
POR 221 The Brazilian Body: Representing Women in Brazil's Literature and Culture
POR 381 Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies: Topic: Multiple Lenses of Marginality: New Brazilian Filmmaking by Women
SOC 213 Ethnic Minorities in America
SOC 222 Blackness in the Americas
SOC 228 Women, Gender and Globalization
SOC 314 Latina/o Racial Identities in the United States.
THE 214 Black Theatre
THE 215 Minstrel Shows from Daddy Rice to Big Mama’s House

