New courses in Women's and Gender Studies from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies 2022-02-11T17:21:44+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Black feminist health science studies is a critical intervention into a number of intersecting arenas of scholarship and activism, including feminist health studies, contemporary medical curriculum reform conversations, and feminist technoscience studies. We argue towards a theory of Black feminist health science studies that builds on social justice science, which has as its focus the health and well-being of marginalized groups. Students will engage feminist science theories such as the linguistic metaphors of the immune system, the medicalization of race, and critiques of the sexual binary. We will use contemporary as well as historical moments to investigate the evolution of “scientific truth” and its impact on the U.S. cultural landscape. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-s10-black-feminist-health-science-studies-spring-2021 Spring 2021 Bailey, Moya 2021-11-01T19:30:04+05:00 WGS.S10 en-US Black feminist health science studies feminist technoscience studies sexual binary race class gender standpoint theory intersectionality medicine MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This subject examines the role scientists have played as activists in social movements in the U.S. following World War II. Themes include scientific responsibility and social justice, the roles of gender, race, and power, the motivation of individual scientists, strategies for organizing, and scientists’ impact within social movements. Case studies include atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and the nuclear freeze campaign, climate science and environmental justice, the civil rights movement, Vietnam War protests, the March 4 movement at MIT, concerns about genetic engineering, gender equality, intersectional feminism, and student activism at MIT.Read a profile of the class "Scientists as Engaged Citizens" by the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-160j-science-activism-gender-race-and-power-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Bertschinger, Edmund 2020-06-29T13:58:14+05:00 WGS.160J STS.021J en-US gender race power science activism nuclear weapons environmentalism climate change civil rights Vietnam War genetic engineering intersectional feminism student activism MIT MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course uses theories of gender to explore sociopolitical, ethical and theological perspectives on immigration policy, with a focus on the U.S. The course begins with an overview of global developments in the feminization of migration and ethical and policy dilemmas that are specific to the current era. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-645-gendering-u-s-immigration-policy-sociopolitical-theological-and-feminist-perspectives-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Hee An, Choi Kretsedemas, Philip 2019-08-20T18:35:21+05:00 WGS.645 en-US gender immigration policy United States migration race MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts that shed light on ongoing historical struggles over gender identity and appropriate sexual behaviors. It traces the history of LGBTQ/queer film through the 20th and into the 21st century. It also examines the effect of the Hollywood Production Code and censorship of sexual themes and content, and the subsequent subversion of queer cultural production in embedded codes and metaphors. In addition, this course also considers the significance of these films as artifacts and examples of various aspects of queer theory. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-181-queer-cinema-and-visual-culture-fall-2017 Fall 2017 Surkan, K.J. 2019-01-04T15:23:16+05:00 WGS.181 en-US LGBTQ film queer cinema Hollywood production code censorship stereotypes tropes sexual identity gender identity queer theory queer text Stonewall gay subtext AIDS Black masculinity Rope The Children's Hour The Danish Girl Carol Fun Home Philadelphia Alison Bechdel Paris Is Burning Tongues Untied The Watermelon Woman Free CeCe! MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides a basic overview of the history of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Students will learn about specific contributions of women across a variety of disciplines and will gain a broad perspective on how these contributions played a larger role in the advancement of human knowledge and technological achievement. The class will also grapple with how both historic and modern biases within the STEM disciplines, as well as in representations of women and girls in media and popular culture, can affect outcomes in these areas. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-s10-history-of-women-in-science-and-engineering-fall-2017 Fall 2017 Weinstock, Maia 2018-05-09T18:17:26+05:00 WGS.S10 en-US history history of science and technology women in science engineering science STEM women MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In this course, students will develop their abilities to expose ways that scientific knowledge has been shaped in contexts that are gendered, racialized, economically exploitative, and hetero-normative. This happens through a sequence of four projects that concern: Interpretation of the cultural dimension of sciences Climate change futures Genomic citizenry Students' plans for ongoing practice The course uses a Project-Based Learning format that allows students to shape their own directions of inquiry in each project, development of skills, and collegial support. Students' learning will be guided by individualized bibliographies co-constructed with the instructors, the inquiries of the other students, and a set of tools and processes for literary analysis, inquiry, reflection, and support.  Acknowledgement Professor Peter Taylor spent several years crafting the unique structure of the course, which is crucial to the way it was taught.  The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality This course was taught as part of the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) at MIT. The GCWS brings together scholars and teachers at nine degree-granting institutions in the Boston area who are devoted to graduate teaching and research in Women's Studies and to advance interdisciplinary Women's Studies scholarship.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-700-changing-life-reading-the-intersections-of-gender-race-biology-and-literature-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Campbell, Mary Baine Taylor, Peter 2018-02-27T16:06:48+05:00 WGS.700 en-US gender race biology literature science criticism climate change projects project-based learning PBL science culture feminism anti-racism activism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-111-gender-media-collaborations-in-feminism-and-technology-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Surkan, K.J. 2016-12-21T20:43:28+05:00 WGS.111 CMS.619 en-US race class gender sexual identity media new media digital technology digital media popular culture film television print journalism blogs video advertising cyberfeminism intersectionality MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course offers an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. It begins with an overview of historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. The remainder of the course flows chronologically, tracing the expanding and contracting nature of attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities, as well as the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-110j-sexual-and-gender-identities-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Horan, Caley 2016-09-27T16:04:19+05:00 WGS.110J 21H.108J en-US 21H.108J 21H.108 WGS.110J WGS.110 gender sexual identity sexual history gay heterosexuality homosexuality transgender race love reproduction lesbianism working girls white slave traffic birth control feminism woman's suffrage movement sexual revolution gay liberation second wave feminist black feminism women's lib gay pride religious right AIDS Jerry Falwell pornography sexual harassment Lawrence v. Texas college sexual assault gay marriage MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender in relation to health, including public health practice, epidemiologic research, health policy, and clinical application. It discusses a variety of health-related issues that illustrate global, international, domestic, and historical perspectives, while considering other social determinants of health as well, including social class and race. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-151-gender-health-and-society-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Charlton, Brittany 2016-04-12T21:46:55+05:00 WGS.151 en-US gender health society public health epidemiology cardiovascular disease hormone therapy contraceptives sexually transmitted infection pregnancy birth mental health motherhood biology abortion sexual orientation gender identity global policy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The course will focus primarily on contemporary discourses concerning gender inequality. Most of the readings assigned will be recent articles published in U.S. and British media capturing the latest thinking and research on gender inequality in the workplace. The class will be highly interactive combining case studies, videos, debates, guest speakers, and in-class simulations. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-150-gender-power-leadership-and-the-workplace-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Mendez Escobar, Elena 2016-01-14T22:41:50+05:00 WGS.150 en-US gender inequality wage gap gender gap diversity parental leave affirmative action childcare bias stereotypes MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm What can we learn about science and technology–and what can we do with that knowledge? Who are "we" in these questions?–whose knowledge and expertise gets made into public policy, new medicines, topics of cultural and political discourse, science education, and so on? How can expertise and lay knowledge about science and technology be reconciled in a democratic society? How can we make sense of the interactions of living and non-living, humans and non-humans, individual and collectivities in the production of scientific knowledge and technologies? The course takes these questions as entry points into an ever-growing body of work to which feminist, anti-racist, and other critical analysts and activists have made significant contributions. The course also takes these questions as an invitation to practice challenging the barriers of expertise, gender, race, class, and place that restrict wider access to and understanding of the production of scientific knowledge and technologies. In that spirit, students participate in an innovative, problem-based learning (PBL) approach that allows them to shape their own directions of inquiry and develop their skills as investigators and prospective teachers. At the same time the PBL cases engage students' critical faculties as they learn about existing analyses of gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology, guided by individualized bibliographies co-constructed with the instructors and by the projects of the other students. Students from all fields and levels of preparation are encouraged to join the course. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-693-gender-race-and-the-complexities-of-science-and-technology-a-problem-based-learning-experiment-spring-2009 Spring 2009 Taylor, Peter Fausto-Sterling, Anne 2015-11-03T17:15:50+05:00 WGS.693 en-US gender race science technology problem-based learning MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In the course we will use a feminist interdisciplinary lens and invite students to look critically at how practices like privatization, shrinking public "safety nets", de-regulation, and the commodification of health services intersect inevitably with gender, race and class, for both men and women. We will draw on a blend of empirical studies, policy materials, films and guest speakers to examine specific health issues like menstrual health, corporate obstetrics, abortion, obesity, intersex, harassment and other forms of gendered violence, mental health and stress, parent-child attachment, as well as ethics and pharmaceuticals. The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS) This course is part of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. The GCWS at MIT brings together scholars and teachers at nine degree-granting institutions in the Boston area who are devoted to graduate teaching and research in Women's Studies and to advancing interdisciplinary Women's Studies scholarship. Learn more about the GCWS. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-645-gender-health-and-marginalization-through-a-critical-feminist-lens-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Bobel, Chris Dominguez, Silvia Swenson MPH, Lecturer Norma 2015-09-17T19:32:20+05:00 WGS.645 en-US gender health marginalization feminist neo-liberal menstrual health corporate obstetrics abortion obesity intersex harassment mental health stress parenting ethics pharmaceuticals women men MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course will explore the rich diversity of women's voices and experiences as reflected in writings and films by and about Latina writers, filmmakers, and artists. Through close readings, class discussions and independently researched student presentations related to each text, we will explore not only the unique, individual voice of the writer, but also the cultural, social and political contexts which inform their narratives. We will also examine the roles that gender, familial ties and social and political preoccupations play in shaping the values of the writers and the nature of the characters encountered in the texts and films. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-s10-special-topics-in-women-gender-studies-seminar-latina-womens-voices-spring-2010 Spring 2010 King, Sarah E. 2015-09-11T18:22:10+05:00 WGS.S10 en-US Latina women code-switching first generation coming-of-age Chicana roots revolution politics poverty, social criticism kinship biography magic realism mythical historicism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the context of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, the meaning of marriage itself demands serious re-examination. This course will discuss history, literature, film, and legal scholarship, making use of cross-cultural, sociological, anthropological, and many other theoretical approaches to the marriage question from 1630 to the present. As it turns out, sex, marriage, and the family have never been stable institutions; to the contrary, they have continued to function as flash points for the very social and cultural questions that are central to gender studies scholarship. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-640-studies-in-womens-life-narratives-interrogating-marriage-case-studies-in-american-law-and-culture-fall-2007 Fall 2007 Buckle, Leonard Bergland, Renee Thomas-Buckle, Suzann 2015-09-11T18:22:35+05:00 WGS.640 en-US marriage sex same-sex marriage cross-racial marraige Goodridge Lawrence v. Texas seduction abandonment bastard race gender lesbian intimate friendships boston marriage gay marriage feminist sexuality gender women homosexual equality MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This subject investigates the special relation of women to several musical folk traditions in the British Isles and North America. Throughout, we will be examining the implications of gender in the creation, transmission, and performance of music. Because virtually all societies operate to some extent on a gendered division of labor (and of expressive roles) the music of these societies is marked by the gendering of musical repertoires, traditions of instrumentation, performance settings, and styles. This seminar will examine the gendered dimensions of the music - the song texts, the performance styles, processes of dissemination (collection, literary representation) and issues of historiography - with respect to selected traditions within the folk musics of North America and the British Isles, with the aim of analyzing the special contributions of women to these traditions. In addition to telling stories about women's musical lives, and studying elements of female identity and subjectivity in song texts and music, we will investigate the ways in which women's work and women's cultural roles have affected the folk traditions of these several countries. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-645-issues-of-representation-women-representation-and-music-in-selected-folk-traditions-of-the-british-isles-and-north-america-fall-2005 Fall 2005 Tick, Judith Perry, Ruth 2015-09-11T18:21:10+05:00 WGS.645 en-US Representation women music folk music traditions British Isles North America gender creation transmission performance dissemination collection literary representation historiography stories female identity song texts work cultural roles MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary. Gender studies scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as education, law, culture, work, medicine and the family.  WGS. 101 draws on multiple disciplines--such as literature, history, economics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, anthropology and media studies-- to examine cultural assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality. This course integrates analysis of current events through student presentations, aiming to increase awareness of contemporary and historical experiences of women, and of the multiple ways that sex and gender interact with race, class, nationality and other social identities.   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-101-introduction-to-womens-and-gender-studies-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Walsh, Andrea Fox, Elizabeth 2015-08-14T17:11:19+05:00 WGS.101 en-US gender women law culture education work medicine social policy family women's rights race class Senaca Falls suffrage The Yellow Wallpaper Rosie the Riveter activism gender roles beauty sexuality marriage transgender gender equality sweatshop pro-choice pro-life feminist MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course analyzes theories of gender and politics, especially ideologies of gender and their construction. Also discussed are definitions of public and private spheres, gender issues in citizenship, the development of the welfare state, experiences of war and revolution, class formation, and the politics of sexuality.Graduate students are expected to pursue the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-301j-feminist-thought-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Haslanger, Sally 2015-06-18T17:07:56+05:00 WGS.301J 17.007J 24.237J 17.006 en-US WGS.301J WGS.301 17.007J 17.007 24.237J 24.237 17.006 feminism feminist sex gender oppression Humanist approach Gynocentric approach Dominance approach social construction liberal subjection female politics pornography lesbian Simone de Beauvoir Butler domestic violence prejudice queer theory masculinity epistemic injustice MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores how gender shaped the historical experiences and cultural productions in the North American West during the time it was being explored, settled, and imagined. The North American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a fascinating case study of the shifting meanings of gender, race, citizenship, and power in border societies. As the site of migration, settlement, and displacement, it spawned contests over land, labor disputes, inter-ethnic conflicts and peaceful relations, and many kinds of cultural productions. The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS) This course is part of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. The GCWS at MIT brings together scholars and teachers at nine degree-granting institutions in the Boston area who are devoted to graduate teaching and research in Women's Studies and to advancing interdisciplinary Women's Studies scholarship. Learn more about the GCWS. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-640-gender-race-and-the-construction-of-the-american-west-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Hansen, Karen V. Johnson, Marilynn Rudnick, Lois 2015-04-14T19:31:47+05:00 WGS.640 en-US gender race American west frontier Great Plains Borderlands sexuality immigration migration labor politics reform Great Depression WWII Georgia O'Keefe MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Using film and related popular media as our texts, this course will examine how screen "embodiments" of the woman visualize ideologies of discipline and desire in a culture in which her body has become a representation of the ability to control appetites, size and shape while investing personal and social capital in its rehabilitation as a project of endless reconstruction, redesign and maintenance. Throughout the course we will draw from feminist film theory, clinical psychology, as well as women's, gender, and cultural studies, to better understand how filmic representations of the woman's body first emerge from contemporary psychosocial contexts and then in turn shape the body ideals and internalizations, as well as the behavioral practices of the film spectator. The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS) This course is part of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. The GCWS at MIT brings together scholars and teachers at nine degree-granting institutions in the Boston area who are devoted to graduate teaching and research in Women's Studies and to advancing interdisciplinary Women's Studies scholarship. Learn more about the GCWS. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-640-screen-women-body-narratives-in-popular-american-film-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Fox-Kales, Emily Leonard, Suzanne 2014-12-22T15:16:33+05:00 WGS.640 en-US film American film women gender popular culture feminism film theory politics body sexuality MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course will provide students with an analytic framework to understand the roles that gender, race, and class play in defining and determining access to leadership and power in the U.S., especially in the context of the workplace. We will explore women and men in leadership positions within the corporate, political and non-profit sectors, with attention to the roles of women of color and immigrant women within this context. We will also look at specific policies such as affirmative action, parental leave, child-care policy, and working-time policies and the role they play–or could play–in achieving parity. We will further investigate ways in which these policies address gender, racial, and class inequities, and think critically about mechanisms for change. The course will be highly interactive, and will combine texts, theater, videos and visual arts. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-s10-gender-power-leadership-and-the-workplace-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Fried, Mindy 2014-09-23T21:13:27+05:00 WGS.S10 en-US gender power leadership workplace race poverty inequality ethnicity labor corporate work family work-life balance government policy politics sexual harassment affirmative action parental leave child care MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm