New courses in Women's Studies http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Women's-Studies/index.htm 2008-01-18 MIT OpenCourseWare http://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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm Subject examines several theoretical perspectives on human identity and focuses on processes of creating categories of acceptable and deviant identities; how identities are formed, how behaviors are labelled, and how people enter deviant roles and worlds; and responses to differences and strategies for coping with these responses. Subject material describes how identity and difference are inescapably linked. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-218JSpring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm Paxson, Heather 2007-10-31T12:55:49-04:00 21A.218J WMN.454J SP.454J en-US Anthropology Women's and Gender Studies Special Programs MIT Open Course Ware http://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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities. Discussions will focus on some of the following questions: What does it mean to act black, white, privileged, or underprivileged? What do these artists suggest are the implications of performing (indeed playing at or with) racial identity, ethnicity, gender, and class status? How and why are race and class status often conflated in these performances? http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-504JSpring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm Alexandre, Sandy 2007-10-03T04:26:10-04:00 21L.504J WMN.518J SP.518J en-US Literature American Literature (United States) philip roth toi derricotte suzan-lori parks black no more george schuyler black like me nella Larsen charles chestnut james weldon johnson toni Morrison bell hooks mark twain passing performance privilege class status gender ethnicity racial identity class race Women's and Gender Studies Special Programs MIT Open Course Ware http://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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm Exploration of the changes and continuities in the lives of South Asian women. Using gender as a lens, examine how politics of race, class, caste, and religion have affected women in South Asian countries, primarily in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Current debates within South Asian women's history illustrate the issues and problems that arise in re-writing the past from a gendered perspective. Primary documents, secondary readings, films, newspaper articles, and the Internet. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-575JFall-2006/CourseHome/index.htm Roy, Haimanti 2007-10-17T01:06:34-04:00 21H.575J WMN.459J SP.459J en-US History South Asian Studies Women's Studies south asian women feminism globalization popular culture sexualty religious fundamentalism civil code sati rape dowry partition activism public health gandhi birth control empower women's work political participation harem good wife mother british empire colonial india law gender religion education india social reform devotee divinities concubine courtesan wive in-law daughter mother Women's and Gender Studies Special Programs MIT Open Course Ware http://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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm