WSTD-006-304 WRITING
SEMINAR IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
TR 4:30-6 Paxton
(fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: ENGL-003
Fulfills the College Writing Requirement
What do we mean when we say we're family? And what are
family values? "No Place Like Home" is an interdisciplinary writing
course that invites you to examine the evolution of American family life from
1900 to the present. Our approaches will be as varied as the families we study:
we will explore how novelists, playwrights, and poets have depicted the
American family; how advertisers and politicians have appealed to it; how
legislators have defined it; how Hollywood
has imagined it; and how academics and journalists have pronounced it to be
alternately ailing and thriving. You will experiment with numerous, including
creative non-fiction, autobiography, and journalism. You will complete formal
and/or informal writing assignments every week. These will help you develop
high level academic writing skills.
WSTD-007-401 POPULATION
AND SOCIETY
TR 9-10:30 Kohler(iliana@pop.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: SOCI-007/URBS-265
General Requirement I: Society
The course covers selected aspects of population
and the study of demography, including social, economic, and political issues:
population explosion, baby bust, population aging, abortion, teenage pregnancy,
illegal aliens, racial classification, and population and development.
WSTD-008-401 HUMAN
REPRODUCTION AND
SEX
DIFFERENCES
MWF 2-3 Waldron
(iwaldron@sas)
Recitation
402 M 3-4
403 W 1-2
Cross Listed: BIOL-008
General Requirement V: Living World
This course will discuss human reproduction,
including anatomy, physiology, hormonal control, genetics, development,
infertility, contraception, sexual behavior, sexually transmitted diseases such
as AIDS, and relevant basic molecular and cellular biology. In addition, this course will discuss sex
differences and similarities in health and mortality, including relevant basic
biology of the cardiovascular system and cancer.
WSTD-041-401 GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
TR 12-1:30 Hannum
hannumem@soc.upenn.edu
Cross Listed: AMES-084, SOCI-041
Freshman Seminar
General Requirement I: Society
This seminar will focus on gendered experiences of
socio-economic development in Asia. We will discuss
prominent theories about the relationship between gender stratification and
development, considering frameworks that emphasize the role of economic growth,
state policies, global development agencies, globalization, and national and
regional cultures. We will learn about sources of empirical data for research
on gender and women in Asia. Finally, we will discuss
empirical research about gender and development in Asian countries. We will
consider evidence about women across the life course, including gender gaps in
children’s health, nutrition, schooling and work, women’s reproductive health
and rights, gender and the family, and gender, employment and income. The class
will be conducted as a mix of overview lectures, demonstrations of how to
access data sources, discussions of academic readings and student research, and
viewing and discussion of films.
WSTD-051-401-051-401 19th CENTURY
BRITISH LITERATURE
TR 12-1:30 Auerbach (nauerbac@dept.english.upenn.edu
Cross Listed: ENGL-051
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
Religious humanism, or the
worship of humanity, was the unofficial religion of God-bereft Victorian
writers. Is a society without religion emancipated or lost? We will explore
this and similar questions in poetry, fiction, and essays by members of a lost
generation; not the American 1920s, but the sages of Victorian England. We
shall read works by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, Alfred
Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Charlotte Bronte to see
what it means to worship men and women in a world without divinity. For
contrast, we shall read some poetry by two of the rare Victorians who were
formally religious: Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Is this
poetry better than poetry of doubt? Is it more assured? Is it different?
There will be two examinations,
a midterm and a final. In addition, each student will write a 10-odd page paper
on faith or faithlessness in a nineteenth-century work not included on our
syllabus.
WSTD-060-401 INTRO
TO LATINA/O LITERATURE:
TR 1:30-3 BEGINNINGS
TO 1898
Padilla (amparo@dept.english)
Cross Listed:
ENGL-070/LTAM-060
Distribution III: Arts and Letters
WATU Credit Optional-See Instructor
This course is an introduction to Latina/o literature, from
the period of Spanish colonization to 1898 and the Spanish-American War. The
readings are organized, with a few exceptions, in roughly chronological
order. As we move through our survey of the literature, we will attend to
the distinct historical and cultural conditions in which the texts were
produced. Some of the historical narratives that will inform our
discussions include Spanish colonization prior to the U.S. occupation of the
borderlands, the 1846-48 Mexican War and its consequences, and U.S. economic
and political interest in the Caribbean territories leading up to the
Spanish-American War. Throughout the course, we will interrogate the
possibilities, limitations, and the viability of studying these diverse
literatures under the rubric of "latinidad." Writers will
include Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, José Martí,
and Américo Par
WSTD-114-401 DISCRIMINATION:
SEXUAL/RACIAL CONFLICT
MW 3-4:30 Madden
(jmadden@sas)
Cross Listed: AFAM/SOCI-112
General Requirement I: Society
WATU Credit Optional-See Instructor
This course is concerned with the structure, the causes and
correlates, and the government policies to alleviate discrimination in the United
States. The central focus of the
course is on employment discrimination by race and gender. After a
comprehensive overview of the structures of labor markets and of
nondiscriminatory reasons for the existence of group differentials in
employment and wages, various theories of the sources of discrimination are
reviewed and evaluated. Actual governmental policies and alternative
policies are evaluated in light of both the empirical evidence on group
differences and the alternative theories of discrimination.
WSTD-118-401 IRAN
CINEMA: GENDER, POLITICS, RELIGION
T 1:30-4:30 Minuchehr (pardis@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AMES/COML/FILM-118 and WSTD/AMES-418
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
WATU Credit Optional-See Instructor
Post-Revolutionary Iranian
cinema has gained exceptional international reception in the past two decades.
In most major national and international festivals, Iranian films have taken
numerous prizes for their outstanding representation of life and society, and
their courage in defying censorship barriers. In this course, we will examine
the distinct characteristics of the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
Discussion will revolve around themes such as gender politics, family
relationships and women's social, economic and political roles, as well as the
levels of representation and criticism of modern Iran's political and religious structure within the
current boundaries. There will be a total of 12 films shown and will include
works by Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Beizai, Milani, Bani-Etemad and Panahi, among
others.
WSTD-122-401 SOCIOLOGY
OF GENDER
TR 10:30-12 Roth (silkerot@ssc)
Cross-Listed: SOCI-122
General Requirement I: Society
The assignment of gender roles and the creation of gender
identities have profound consequences for women and men at every level of
society: from their intimate relations: to how they manage and participate in
the institutions of society; to their place in society's stratification
systems. In this course we will examine four aspects of gender relations:
historical and cross-cultural examples of gender roles; gender relations in
contemporary American institutions; theories of sex differences, and the many
specific topics to be covered are: women and the economy, women and the
professions, working class women, minority women, violence against women,
changing male identities, the nature of male power, and women's liberation
movements.
WSTD-146-401 WRITING
MULTICULTURALISM
R 1:30-4:30 Sanday (psanday@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AFAM/ANTH-146
Distribution I: Society
Freshman Seminar
Diversity is a fact of life, characteristic not only
of the US national culture, but of
the global culture as well. This course
introduces anthropological theories of culture and multiculturalism and the
method of ethnography. Students will read
and report on selected classic readings. After learning the basic concepts,
students will be introduced to the method of ethnography. The core of the course will revolve around
"doing ethnography" by writing ethnographic field notes on
participant/observation of multiculturalism.
Students can use their life experience, home communities, or Penn as
their field of observation. The goal of
the course is to introduce beginning students to public interest
anthropology. No background in
anthropology is required.
WSTD-149-301 LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY ON
SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION
T 1:30-4:30 Tracy
(lawproject@aol.com)
This course will examine how statutory law, court decisions
and other forms of social policy, encourage or discourage various forms of
sexuality, reproduction and parenting. Such issues as contraception, abortion,
gay and lesbian rights, reproductive technology, family violence, and welfare
and family policies will be covered.
WSTD-162-401 JEWISH
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
TR 3-4:30 Hellerstein (khellers@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AMES-162/GRMN-262/JWST-162
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
WATU Credit Optional-See Instructor
This course will introduce Penn students of
literature, women's studies, and Jewish studies -- both undergraduates and
graduates -- to the long tradition of women as readers, writers, and subjects
in Jewish literature (in translation from Yiddish, Hebrew, and in English). By examining the interaction of culture,
gender, and religion in a variety of literary works by Jewish authors, from the
seventeenth century to the present, the course will argue for the importance of
Jewish women's writing. Authors include
Glikl of Hameln, Cynthia Ozick, Anzia Yezierska, Kadya Molodowsky, Esther Raab,
Anne Frank, and others.
"Jewish woman, who
knows your life? In darkness you have
come, in darkness do you go." J.
L. Gordon (1890)
WSTD-185-401 KOREAN
WOMEN AND FILM
T 1:30-4:30 Pak
Cross Listed: AMES-185
WSTD-186-401 GENDER
AND SEXUALITY IN JAPAN
T 3-6 Kano (akano@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AMES-186 and AMES-586/WSTD-586
Distribution I: Society
WATU Program – Fulfills ½ Course Writing Requirement
This seminar deals with issues which such as the cultural
and historical constructions of femininity and masculinity; gendered division
of education and labor; representation of gender and sexuality in literature,
theater, and popular culture; and forms of activism for the rights of women and
sexual minorities. This course will use films, videos, and manga, as well
as readings from anthropological, historical, literary, and theoretical texts.
All readings will be in English, but Japanese materials will be available to
those interested.
WSTD-187-401 POSSESING
WOMEN
MW 3-4 Chance
(lchance@sas)
Recitation
402 F 2-3
403 F 3-4
Cross Listed: COML/AMES-187
Distribution III: Arts and Letters
WATU Credit Optional-See Instructor
A man from Tennessee writes Memoirs of a Geisha. A Japanese novelist tells the story of the
"comfort women" who served the Japanese army. A tenth century courtier poses as woman
writing the first woman's diary. Poets
from Byron to Robert Lowell, through Ezra Pound to Li Po, have written as
though they were women, decrying their painful
situations. Is something wrong with this
picture, or is "woman" such a fascinating position from which to
speak that writers can hardly help trying it on for size? In this course we will look at male literary
impersonators of women, as well as women writers. Our questions will include who speaks in
literature for prostitutes--whose bodies are in some sense the property of
men--and what happens when women inhabit the bodies of other women via spirit
possession. Readings will draw on the Japanese tradition, which
is especially rich in such cases, and will also include Western and Chinese
literature, anthropological work on possession, legal treatments of
prostitution, and film. Participants
will keep a reading journal and write a paper of their own choosing.
WSTD-199 INDEPENDENT
STUDY
Arranged Kurz (dkurz@sas.upenn.edu)
WSTD-235-401 PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
T 4-7 Staff
Cross Listed:
EDUC-235
Critical
analyses of the psychological theories of female development, and introduction
to feminist scholarship on gender development.
WSTD-255-401 BEYOND
MARS AND VENUS
TR 3-4:30 Auerbach (naubac@english.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed:
ENGL-255
Distribution
III: Arts & Letters
"Men are from Mars, women
are from Venus," according to a recent best-seller, but actually, as good
novelists have always known, we are from the same planet, Earth.
Officially at least,
nineteenth-century England was dominated by the faith that men and
women were mutually exclusive creatures, one composed entirely of assertive
manliness, the other, of receptive womanliness. The course will explore
novelists' ways of subverting these stereotypes without unduly disturbing their
pious readers. We shall read some novels about single-sex communities (Jane
Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Charlotte Bronte's VILLETTE; fiction about male
communities might include Trollope's THE WARDEN, Kipling's STALKY & CO. and
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING) In other works (such as Lewis Carroll's ALICE books
and Wilkie Collins' WOMAN IN WHITE), men and women are glorified but
traditional manliness and womanliness are scrambled beyond recognition. The
questions we will ask of these novels are both aesthetic and ideological: how
does an ethos of sexual segregation hamper or inspire novelists' construction
of dimensional characters?
Each student will write a 10-page paper on some work or
works not covered on the syllabus. In addition, there will probably be some
sort of midterm and final examination.
WSTD-280-401
FEMINIST POLITICAL
THOUGHT
MW 3-4:30 Hirschmann (njh@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed:
PSCI-280
General Requirement I: Society
This course is designed to provide an overview of the
variety of ideas, approaches, and sub-fields within feminist political
thought. Readings are divided
into three sections, each representing one of the three major “kinds” of
feminist theory that the discipline of Political Science engages in. The
first is contemporary feminist theorizing about the meaning and status of
“feminism” itselfwhat is feminism about? What approaches are best? What values
and ideas are central to the meaning of the term “woman?” How do race,
class, and sexuality intersect with "gender"? Once these terms are
introduced, the second section focuses on women in the history of Western
political thought; what is the historical basis for the ideas we discussed in
Section I? The third section is on feminist approaches to practical political
problems and issues, including abortion, domestic violence, cultural
difference, and sexual harassment; what can feminist theory contribute to the
lived conditions of women’s lives?
WSTD-290-403 TOPICS IN MODERNISM: GERMAN
EXPRESSIONISM, 1900-1945
TR 10:30-12 Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu
)
Cross Listed:
ENGL-259, HIST-491, THAR-290
Distribution
III: Arts & Letters
This course examines
the development of modern German dance as one of the foremost
forces to articulate a new language of the body at the
beginning of the twentieth century. It is also known as expressionist dance.
The course will focus on the notion of “modernity" and compare different
concepts of modern dance from the beginning of the twentieth century until
1933: within the German dance world and within other modernist movements such
as futurism, DADA or surrealism. It will examine how expressionist modernism
was evaluated by the Nazis and how and why they thought of some modernist art
as 'degenerate' and other art as acceptable. We shall also look at the
theoretical and practical responses to Nazism by artists.
We shall study the impact of the
formal properties, theoretical frames and general ideas on subsequent dance
history by studying several of the most important representatives of
expressionist dance and their choreographies: Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman,
Kurt Jooss, Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert. Students will work with their
writings, designs, videos and other material to understand the relationship
between ideas and artistic expression.
Students will also be introduced
to expressionist music, literature, theatre and fine arts and asked to consider
their relationship to dance.
Requirements: Interest in
cultural history, history of ideas, dance history and the ideological context
of dance in general. Examinations: seminar presentations (10%); one book and
one film review (30%); in class discussion (10%). Final exam: Take home essay
(50%).
WSTD-344-401 PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL GROWTH
T 4:30-7:30 Staff
Cross-Listed: EDUC-345
Intellectual,
emotional and behavioral development in the college years will be the theme of
this course. Illustrative topics: developing intellectual and social
competence; developing personal and career goals; managing interpersonal
relationships; values and behavior. Recommended for sub-matriculation in the
Psychological Services Master's Degree Program.
WSTD-345-401 HISTORY
OF WOMEN IN AMERICA
TR 10:30-12 Brown (kbrown@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: HIST-345
Distribution II: History and Tradition
WATU Program – Fulfills ½ College Writing Requirement
Communication within the Curriculum
From the sixteenth century, when Native American
populations flourished on the North American continent, to the Civil War, when
North and South collided over the question of slavery, women have played a
critical role in American society. This
course traces the history of women and gender in America during this period with
special emphasis on the importance of women's reproductive and economic roles
to the emergence of ethnic, racial, regional, and socio-economic categories in
the United States. Slides, lectures, and readings drawn from
primary documents introduce students to the conditions of women's lives during
the colonial and revolutionary periods and to the rise of women's activism in
the nineteenth century. In addition, we
will consider how dramatic changes in housework, wage labor, female access to
public forms of power, and ideas about female sexuality make it difficult to
generalize about what is commonly thought of as women's "traditional"
or "natural" role.
WSTD-349-401
HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
IN U.S.
TR 1:30-3 Peiss (peiss@sas.upenn.edu)
WATU Program – Fulfills ½ College Writing Requirement
This course introduces students to a relatively new field of
inquiry, the history of sexuality in the U.S.
It explores the past to consider why sexuality has become so central to
American identities, culture, and politics. Primary documents and other readings
focus on the history of sexual ideology and regulation; popular culture and
changing sexual practices; the emergence of distinct sexual identities and
communities; the politics of sexuality; and the relationship between sexuality
and other forms of social difference, such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, and
class. Topics include many with continuing relevance to contemporary public
debate: among them, sexual representation and censorship, sexual violence,
adolescent sexuality, the politics of reproduction, gay and lesbian
sexualities, and sexually transmitted diseases.
WSTD-400-301 SENIOR THESIS
F 2-5 Kurz (dkurz@sas.upenn.edu)
This seminar is for senior
undergraduate Women's Studies majors who are writing their theses. The seminar
will help students decide on their theses topic and methodology. The seminar
will also focus on drawing conclusions from primary and secondary sources of
data.
WSTD-418-401 IRAN
CINEMA: GENDER, POLITICS, RELIGION
T 1:30-4:30 Minuchehr (pardis@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AMES/COML/FILM-118 and WSTD/AMES-418
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
This course is the Graduate Level version of WSTD-118
Post-Revolutionary Iranian
cinema has gained exceptional international reception in the past two decades.
In most major national and international festivals, Iranian films have taken
numerous prizes for their outstanding representation of life and society, and
their courage in defying censorship barriers. In this course, we will examine
the distinct characteristics of the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
Discussion will revolve around themes such as gender politics, family relationships
and women's social, economic and political roles, as well as the levels of
representation and criticism of modern Iran's political and religious structure within the
current boundaries. There will be a total of 12 films shown and will include works
by Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Beizai, Milani, Bani-Etemad and Panahi, among
others.
WSTD-499-000 INDEPENDENT
STUDY
Arranged Kurz
(dkurz@sas)
WSTD-503-640 MLA: LOVE, POLITICS AND
MYTHS IN POPULAR CINEMA
M
6-8:40 Mackey-Kallis
Cross Listed:
FILM-503
Looking
at such popular English language films as Titanic, The Piano, Reds, Cold Mountain, Gone with the Wind and others,
this course explores images of romantic love set against the background of
often turbulent political times. Using Homer's the Illiad and the Odyssey and
Dante's The Divine Comedy as a classical and medieval frame, respectively, for
romantic love in a "dangerous time" and the writings of Carl Jung,
Joseph Campbell, Carl Kerenyi, Luce Irigary and others, the course explores the
relationships among romantic love, spiritual transformation, individuation and
cultural and political evolution.
WSTD-586-401 GENDER
AND SEXUALITY IN JAPAN
T 3-6 Kano
(akano@sas.upenn.edu )
Cross Listed: AMES/WSTD-186 and AMES-586
Distribution I: Society
WATU Program – Fulfills ½ College Writing Requirement
This course is the graduate level version of WSTD-186
This seminar deals with issues which such as the cultural
and historical constructions of femininity and masculinity; gendered division
of education and labor; representation of gender and sexuality in literature,
theater, and popular culture; and forms of activism for the rights of women and
sexual minorities. This course will use films, videos, and manga, as well
as readings from anthropological, historical, literary, and theoretical texts.
All readings will be in English, but Japanese materials will be available to
those interested.
WSTD-590-401 GENDER AND EDUCATION
W 4:30 – 7:30 Schultz
kathys@gse.upenn.edu
Cross Listed: EDUC-590
This course is designed
to provide an overview of the major discussions and debates in the area of
gender and education. In addition, there
will be an opportunity to pursue some topics in greater depth through reading
and research projects. While the intersections of gender, race, class,
ethnicity, and sexuality are emphasized throughout the course, the focus of the
research we will read is on gender and education in English-speaking countries
(e.g., the U.S.,
Great Britain,
and Australia.)
After an exploration of our personal histories of gender and education, we will
examine theoretical understandings of gender. We use these theoretical frameworks
to read popular literature. Next we will focus on several key issues in gender
and education, using case studies to investigate the topics. Following this
section, we focus on teaching practices and teachers. In the final class we
will turn to the next generation of feminists and reformers to re-imagine
schooling for girls and boys. We will read varied texts for this class
including a range of research, a memoir, a novel, articles from law reviews,
popular literature, magazines, and reports. In addition, we will begin with
your own stories as texts for the course.
WSTD-591-401 LITERATURE AND ART
W 12-3 Steiner psteiner@sas.upenn.edu
Cross Listed: COML-588/ENGL-591
To think about "the
model" in the arts is to think about representation, a subject embroiled
in controversy for the past century and a half in both literature and the
visual arts. Avant-gardists, feminists, and philosophers all worried about the
model's paradoxes: an exaggerated agency in the figure of the muse and a
complete depersonalization in the figure of the passive object of the gaze. Of
course, these concerns can be seen in ancient myths about art, in Shakespeare's
sonnets, in nineteenth-century novels such as Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. But Modernism was
particularly paradigmatically obsessed with the model, teaming with works
called "Portrait of a Lady" or "La Poseuse, "and just as
loaded with denials of any connection between artwork and human subject. From
Seurat to Cindy Sherman, from Hawthorne and Eliot to Jean Rhys and Christopher
Bram, the course will sample key treatments of the "sitter" in visual
and verbal art.
We will also consider other
meanings of the word "model"- stereotype, prototype, miniature,
ideal, predecessor. The Pop revolution undermined the idea of a pre-existing
reality that provides a subject (or object) for art. Instead, it saw
representation as creating the reality it depicts, a notion traceable to Wilde
and Whistler (and ultimately to Pygmalion and Galatea), but coming into its own
in the philosophy of Baudrillard, novels by Pynchon and DeLillo, and recent
films such as Johan Grimonprez's Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and The Matrix. The model
raises the teasing contradictions apparent in the term "virtual reality":
the unreal real, the resultant antecedent, the powerless determiner. These have
become inescapable considerations in contemporary aesthetics.
Readings will
include classic modernist texts by Woolf, Stein, Pound, Eliot, and Joyce;
postmodern fictions by Nabokov, Pynchon, DeLillo, and Grimonprez/Zizek;
contemporary feminist and gender-revising works by Bram, Lipton, Chevalier, and
Nafisi; and an array of twentieth-century painters and photographers.
Assignments will be 25 pages of writing (either one long or
to shorter papers) and an informal class presentation. Because of the
interdisciplinary nature of this course, students are welcome from English and
other national literature departments, Comparative Literature, Art History,
Fine Arts, and Women's Studies.
WSTD-592-401 QUEER
THEORIES AND HISTORIES
M 12-3 Love
(hlove@english.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: ENGL-592/COML-595
This course introduces students to several classic texts
in the history and theory of sexuality. We will consider the politics and
meaning of non-normative sexualities and genders across time and in different
cultural locations. After working through several key texts in the field, we
will turn to contemporary debates about transgender politics, gay pride and gay
shame, the meaning of 'queer', and responses to HIV/AIDS. We pay particular
attention to questions of queer historiography, considering the intersection
between developmental narratives of the individual and the community. Readings
by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
Michael Warner, Gayle Rubin, Cherrie Moraga, D.A. Miller, and others. One
seminar paper, and a class presentation.
WSTD-599 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Arranged Kurz (dkurz@sas)
WSTD-679-640 HISTORY
OF SEXUALITY
W 5:30-8:10 Goldin (prg@sas.upenn.edu)
Cross Listed: AMES-679
This
course is designed to acquaint students with basic problems and readings in the
history of sexuality. Topics to be covered include: sexuality and sexual
identity; the psychiatric underpinnings of modern sexual discourse in the West,
as well as contemporary theoretical criticisms of it; and polygyny and the
traffic of women. In addition to discussing general studies of these issues, we
will use the history of sexual culture in China -- a complex, literate, ancient
and non-Western society -- in order to test and explore some of the general
theories of sexuality that historians have proposed. No prior knowledge of
Chinese history or language will be presumed.
WSTD-705-401 SEMINAR
IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
W 2-5 Muller
(cmuller@sas.upenn)
This seminar will take an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of women in jazz performance. We will define "jazz" quite broadly
to include contemporary musicians in the world music market, and consider the
works of and about women from Africa, Europe, and the U.S. Students will be required to read materials
written by and about women in jazz, as well as listen to recordings made by the
women studied.