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Gender Course Guide

Gender Course Guide 2010-2011

The Arts and Gender

Literature and Gender

ENGL E-151e Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century: New Voices, New Traditions
Sue Lonoff | Extension Spring
In this course, we read novels by six nineteenth-century British writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. We also consider the following questions: Who are these women? To what extent does their writing conform to a tradition? How does it break new ground? What do their novels tell us about period values and concerns, and about the evolution of this literary genre? What further issues should we consider as twenty-first century readers? As time permits, we also look at film and television adaptations.

GSAS 23583 German 149: Neurosis, Hysteria and the Schizoid - Pathologies of the Subject in Literature and Thought
Oliver Simons | FAS Fall
A survey of theories of madness in the 20th century, this course examines inventions and conceptualizations of the "insane" subject in psychoanalysis and otherwise. Particular attention will be paid to the literary history of these pathologies as well as to the creative potential of the unreasonable subject and its exemplary function in literary avantgarde and critical thought. Theoretical readings include Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, Kristeva, Deleuze, and Guattari.

GSAS 62908 Latin American Studies 90b: Gender, Writing, and Subalternity in the Americas
Jose Rabasa | FAS Spring
This course will explore the relationship between gender and writing in the context of the Americas. We read testimonials by women from seven different regions: Bolivia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, Argentina, and US Latinas.

GSAS 6720 French 70b: Introduction to French Literature II. 19th and 20th Centuries: Moving and Shaking
Janet Beizer | FAS Fall
Significant texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examined in the light of close reading and analysis, with a focus on the significant role played by mobility in the modern world: the wanderer, the emigre, the exile, the hysteric, the itinerant actress, in addition to more socially acceptable travelers and tourists. We'll discuss the evolution, fragmentation, and reinvention of literary forms to correspond to a rapidly modernizing world.

Visual Arts and Gender

GSAS 2144 Japanese Literature 133: Gender and Japanese Art
Melissa M. McCormick | FAS Fall
Examines the role of gender in the production, reception, and interpretation of visual images in Japan from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries. Topics include Buddhist conceptions of the feminine and Buddhist painting; sexual identity and illustrated narratives of gender reversals; the dynamics of voyeurism in Ukiyo-e woodblock prints; modernization of images of "modern girls" in the 1920s; and the gender dynamics of girl culture in manga and anime.

GSAS 26366 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1245: Virgins, Vamps, and Camp: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Maria San Filippo | FAS Fall
From the 1930s-1960s, the Hollywood studio system dominated cinema worldwide and with it images of and discourse on sex, gender, and sexuality. Through critical analysis of classics such as Gilda, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Johnny Guitar, Morocco, Pillow Talk, and Psycho, we will investigate Hollywood's role in constructing, negotiating, and occasionally transgressing norms of identity, behavior, and desire. Taught from a cinema/cultural studies perspective, and incorporating topics and texts integral to feminist and queer film theory.

GSAS 41141 African and African American Studies 109: Using Film for Social Change
Joanna Lipper | FAS Spring
New technology and democatized access to digital media powerfully impact strategies aiming to heighten global awareness of local issues and are integral to efforts seeking to inspire empathy, political engagement, social activism, and charitable giving. With a focus on race, gender, and identity, this course will explore the portrayal of the human condition across cultures in feature films, documentaries, and photography. Students will have the opportunity to create their own multimedia projects.

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Business, Law, Public Policy and Gender

Business and Gender

MGMT E-4140 Gender, Leadership, and Management
Patricia H. Deyton | Extension Spring
This course examines leadership and management from a gender-based perspective. Issues covered include leadership styles and their impact, understanding of power, conflict management, ethical decision making, workplace stereotypes, impact on policy making, differences in communication, and approaches to teamwork.

Human Rights and Gender

GHP214 Health, Human Rights and the International System
Stephen Marks | HSPH Fall 2
This course is designed to provide an overview of the way international institutions deal with health and human rights issues. Focus will be on the responses of the United Nations system, including the World Health Organization (WHO), regional organizations, and non-state actors to some of the pressing issues of health from a human rights perspective. Issues to be explored include: mother-to-child transmission of HIV and ARV drug pricing in Africa; traditional practices, such as female genital cutting (FGC); forced sterilization and rights of indigenous people in Latin America; accountability for mass violations of human rights; health of child workers; and international tobacco control. Among the international institutions to be examined are the WHO, UNAIDS, the World Trade Organization (WTO), UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, the World Bank, and the International Criminal Court (ICC). The principal teaching method is simulation of actual cases, in which students prepare and present positions of various protagonists, based on research into those positions. The ultimate aim of the course is to prepare students to work for and interact professionally with international institutions to advance the health and human rights objectives, whether through governmental, intergovernmental or nongovernmental processes.

GHP218 Health and Human Rights: Concepts and Methods for Public Health
Sofia Gruskin | HSPH Fall 1
The course identifies and discusses the complex interactions between health and human rights, with particular emphasis on the use of human rights concepts and methods for public health practice. The course provides basic literacy in modern human rights. Frameworks for analysis of health/human rights interactions are developed and applied, including: effects of health policies and programs on human rights; health consequences of human rights violations; and the linkages between promoting and protecting health and promoting and protecting human rights. Topics including reproductive health and HIV/AIDS are used to illustrate and explore practical applications of human rights in public health, including the value and effectiveness of what are called "rights-based" approaches to health.

GSAS 20751 History 84s: Women Acting Globally
Ann Marie Wilson | FAS Spring
From the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London to the Beijing Conference for Women in 1995, women have built transnational alliances in order to engage a variety of political issues: from abolition and temperance, to woman suffrage and sexual liberation, to child labor and disease prevention, to peace and international relations. In this seminar students will write original research papers on various aspects of women's international agendas from the 1840s to 1990s.

Law and Gender

GSAS Ethical Reasoning 22: Justice
Michael J. Sandel | FAS Fall
A critical analysis of selected classical and contemporary theories of justice, with discussion of present-day practical applications. Topics include affirmative action, income distribution, same-sex marriage, debates about rights (human rights and property rights), arguments for and against equality, debates about political obligation and the claims of community. Readings include Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, and Rawls.

HPM213 Public Health Law
Michello Mello | HSPH Spring 1
This course examines the many ways in which the law impacts the public health. Among the questions explored are: What authority does the government have to regulate in the interest of public health? How are individual rights balanced against this authority? What are the promises and pitfalls of using laws and litigation to achieve public health goals? The course investigates these issues as they operate a range of specific contexts in public health and medical care, including the control and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, tobacco regulation, rights to have and refuse medical care, reproductive health, and lawsuits against tobacco and gun companies. The course emphasizes constitutional law, but also touches on criminal law, tort law and intellectual property law. Instruction is through interactive lectures with a significant amount of class discussion. Most classes will revolve around two to three legal cases. The previous year's syllabus is available on the course website.

LAW-35330A Employment Discrimination
Elizabeth Bartholet | HLS Fall
This course addresses developments in civil rights law in the important context of the workplace. We will look at the growing body of law designed to protect against discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability. We will examine the ongoing debate in the Supreme Court, Congress, and the nation as to the appropriate meaning of the anti-discrimination norm, a debate that involves questions as to intent as compared to impact theories, individual as compared to group theories, affirmative action, and mandatory arbitration. At issue in this debate is the future of much of the law governing discrimination developed in the 1960s - 70s. We will compare race discrimination to problems involving gender, age and disability, and also touch on national origin and religious discrimination. We will consider work/family conflict, sexual harassment, reasonable accommodation doctrine, and other issues of current controversy and significance. Throughout, we will assess and compare discrimination theories developed in different areas and eras.

LAW-36515A Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts
A Robert Greenwald | HLS Fall
The Family, Domestic Violence, and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts Clinical Workshop provides students who are concurrently enrolled in the WilmerHale Legal Services Center's Family, Domestic Violence, or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Law Clinic, with the practical skills and substantive knowledge necessary to effectively advocate for their clients in and out of the courtroom. Objectives of the course include: developing practical lawyering skills to be applied in the clinical component and beyond; understanding the statutory and case law applicable in family law litigation; enhancing student understanding of the professional roles, values and ethics involved in the practice of law; gaining insight into the unique challenges of low-income clients, victims of domestic violence and the LGBT community; and analyzing and proposing legal advocacy approaches to contemporary family law issues. The course emphasizes a collaborative "health-law" approach to advocating for our client populations. The workshop is hands-on and group oriented and most classes involve both small and large-group exercises and discussions. Throughout the course, we work on a hypothetical case from the initial client interviews through the final disposition of the case. In a series of simulated group exercises, students conduct in-depth interviews with the "client", write the necessary memoranda in the case, prepare a case and client theory, draft and file pleadings in the case, argue and defend against motions, conduct and respond to discovery, counsel the client as the facts of the case evolve, engage in settlement negotiations on the client's behalf, and reflect on ethical issues encountered during the course of representation. In addition, students will prepare a memorandum and conduct a presentation on one more of their active "real life" cases at the Legal Services Center and will lead class discussion on the cases and the larger ethical and legal questions they present. There is no final examination or final paper for this course. Students will be evaluated based on their preparation for and participation in class exercises and discussions.

LAW-36515A Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts
Robert Greenwald | HLS Spring
The Family, Domestic Violence, and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts Clinical Workshop provides students who are concurrently enrolled in the WilmerHale Legal Services Center's Family, Domestic Violence, or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Law Clinic, with the practical skills and substantive knowledge necessary to effectively advocate for their clients in and out of the courtroom. Objectives of the course include: developing practical lawyering skills to be applied in the clinical component and beyond; understanding the statutory and case law applicable in family law litigation; enhancing student understanding of the professional roles, values and ethics involved in the practice of law; gaining insight into the unique challenges of low-income clients, victims of domestic violence and the LGBT community; and analyzing and proposing legal advocacy approaches to contemporary family law issues. The course emphasizes a collaborative "health-law" approach to advocating for our client populations. The workshop is hands-on and group oriented and most classes involve both small and large-group exercises and discussions. Throughout the course, we work on a hypothetical case from the initial client interviews through the final disposition of the case. In a series of simulated group exercises, students conduct in-depth interviews with the "client", write the necessary memoranda in the case, prepare a case and client theory, draft and file pleadings in the case, argue and defend against motions, conduct and respond to discovery, counsel the client as the facts of the case evolve, engage in settlement negotiations on the client's behalf, and reflect on ethical issues encountered during the course of representation. In addition, students will prepare a memorandum and conduct a presentation on one more of their active "real life" cases at the Legal Services Center and will lead class discussion on the cases and the larger ethical and legal questions they present. There is no final examination or final paper for this course. Students will be evaluated based on their preparation for and participation in class exercises and discussions.

LAW-37507A Gender and the Family in Transnational Law
Janet Halley | HLS Fall
This course examines the relationships between transnational legal orders on one hand and the actualities and ideologies of gender and the family on the other. After a survey of contemporary positive international and regional legal structures, we will examine colonial practices of "family law exceptionalism" from "central" and "peripheral" perspectives. We will then study contemporary legal regimes for their explicit and sometimes less patent gender/family content: international humanitarian and criminal law; postconflict and during-conflict regimes focused on women and gender; religion as a component of national and international law and politics; labor migration/immigration/trafficking; rights of the child/child labor/adoption; reproduction/population/public health law and policy; sexual minorities and same-sex marriage campaigns; social and economic rights/development policy; mainstreaming and other modes of institutional inclusion. Overall, our study will include international, regional and comparative approaches and will include roles of theory, of expertise and of social movements in shaping reform and regulatory possibilities.

LAW-375643A Gender Theory and Legal Theory: Reading Group
Janet Halley | HLS Fall
This Reading Group will study classics in feminism and queer theory and classics in legal theory in order to pose questions about law reform affecting the lived experience of sex, sexuality, gender and the family. Our specific focus this year will be on the legal division of the family from the market, and its many consequences in contract law and the law of intimate personal relationships. Students will write response papers. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Please submit a 1-page statement of interest and a vita/resume to Terry Cyr (tcyr@law.harvard.edu) by July 15. 1L's may apply to audit. LLMs are particularly encouraged to apply.

LAW-37634A Gender Violence Clinical Workshop A
Diane Rosenfeld | HLS Fall
Students enrolled in the Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice clinical may do their work in either the fall or spring semester, and must enroll in this Clinical Workshop for the semester in which they are doing their clinical work. In the workshop, students have the opportunity to collaborate, innovate and brainstorm about legal policy issues they encounter in their work. No previous experience is necessary to enroll in the Clinical Workshop. Students enrolled in the Gender Violence clinic during the Fall semester will be automatically enrolled in this Clinical Workshop.

LAW-37634A Gender Violence Clinical Workshop B
Diane Rosenfeld | HLS Spring
Students enrolled in the Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice clinical may do their work in either the fall or spring semester, and must enroll in this Clinical Workshop for the semester in which they are doing their clinical work. In the workshop, students have the opportunity to collaborate, innovate and brainstorm about legal policy issues they encounter in their work. No previous experience is necessary to enroll in the Clinical Workshop. Students enrolled in the Gender Violence clinic during the Spring semester will be automatically enrolled in this Clinical Workshop.

LAW-38200A International Human Rights
Philip Alston | HLS Fall
The course provides a general introduction to the legal and political discourse of human rights. It examines the historical origins of the concept, its international legal context and its normative structure. Themes that run throughout the course include cultural relativism, the relationship between rights and duties, the 'public-private' distinction, changing conceptions of statehood and sovereignty, and responses to terrorism. The course concentrates on the United Nations system, dealing with both Charter-based and treaty-based arrangements. In order to illustrate the functions and processes of institutions it examines issues such as extrajudicial executions, disappearances, arbitrary detention, homosexuality, democratization, and the human rights responsibilities of non-state actors such as corporations.

AW-38880A International Childhood, Rights, and Globalization
Jacqueline Bhabha | HLS, HKS Fall
Explores the impact of globalization on different aspects of childhood and on human rights issues affecting children who cross borders. Why are increasing numbers of children migrating without their families 150 to reunify with migrant parents after being left behind, in search of asylum, as victims of sexual or labor trafficking, as child soldiers, or as transnational adoptees? Why are citizen children unable to prevent the deportation of their noncitizen parents (does citizenship mean anything for children)? The course will consider immigration, refugee, and human rights questions as they relate to international childhood today.

LAW-39371A International Reproductive/Sexual Health Rights: Reading Group
Mindy Jane Roseman | HLS Spring
Sex and reproduction are deeply personal activities, yet infused with public purpose. As such, they help constitute as well as undermine the public/private divide that legal and rights discourses often police. Internationally and nationally, individuals and civil society have staked out rights claims along this territory; courts and international human rights bodies, and until very recently main stream human rights organizations, have rejected as well as recognized these claims. Some of these institutions still continue to do so. This reading course will examine how these claims have been formulated, and critically assess the "value added" of human rights in the areas of sex and reproduction We will pay attention to gender and other categories of social analysis, as well as the orientation towards "health." The objective of the reading group is to lay a foundational basis for thinking about and practicing in this broad and protean field.

LAW-41212A Law and Social Movements
Lani Guinier | HLS Spring
Historical and sociological studies of civil rights movements (often starting with the movement for black civil rights, with parallel developments among Latinos, American Indians and Asian Americans), the feminist movement, the labor movement, the human rights movement, the right-to-life movement, the gay rights movement and the conservative movement for economic freedom and property rights identify the central importance of compelling narratives that come to frame a public deliberative process, which ultimately influences the making and interpretation of law. In this view, one key role of social movements is to keep a story in the public eye and to confront, incorporate and challenge the received understanding with counter-stories. When social movements are successful, a new story emerges. Part of this story is written in the law. Lawmaking becomes a way to institutionalize changes in background understanding and embrace particular public meanings and norms. We shall assess this interactive narrative frame as a point of departure for investigating specific advocacy strategies employed by lawyers. Among the advocacy strategies we shall consider are rule shifting and culture shifting; critical lawyering, movement lawyering and law and organizing; demosprudence, jurisprudence and legisprudence; impact litigation and cause lawyering. One of our goals is to examine the challenges and dilemmas lawyers face in helping social movements successfully organize around a counter-story without becoming the movement's primary storytellers. Another goal is to understand the recursive relationship between social movements, litigation, legislation, and administrative agency policy making and enforcement. We shall also explore the extent to which social movements are not simply about negotiation of interests within an agreed upon normative and political framework, but generate new normative frameworks (related to values, new forms of identity, new institutions) and aspire to alter the relations of power in a democracy.

LAW-46315A Sex Equality
Catherine MacKinnon | HLS Fall
The relation between sex equality under law and sex inequality in society is interrogated in theory and practice in the context of relevant social science, history, and international and comparative law. Mainstream equality doctrine is probed on its own terms and through an alternative. Cases on concrete issues--including work, family, rape, sexual harassment, lesbian and gay rights, abortion, prostitution, pornography--structure the inquiry. Race, economic class, and transsexuality are considered throughout. The purpose of the course is to understand, criticize, and expand the law toward equality between women and men. No prerequisites.

LAW-92030A Criticial Perspectives on the Law: Issues of Race, Gender, Class and Social Change: Seminar
Lani Guinier | HLS Fall
This seminar will focus on the relationship of race, gender, class and the law to contemporary public policy and social change challenges. We shall seek to understand the role of legal discourse in framing issues such as access to, the diversity of, and participation within higher education; the use of the criminal justice system as a major instrument of urban public policy; gay marriage; issues of assimilation v structural reform; the role of gender within the larger society as well as within communities of color. The goal is to identify how the adversarial dynamics of our legal system influence policy choices between means and ends, the zero-sum nature of conflict, and the role of racial, gender and economic hierarchy. We will use interdisciplinary readings, experiential learning and case studies to examine various discourse and social change frames for identifying, reframing and problem-solving concrete social justice issues to facilitate social change. Students will share responsibility with faculty for planning and facilitating this seminar.

LAW-93355A Evolution of Gender Crimes: Seminar
Catherine MacKinnon | HLS Fall
This seminar in international law traces the development of what are now called "gender crimes," meaning sexual or gender-based crimes of violence including rape, sexual slavery, sex trafficking, and akin atrocities. Materials explore conceptual origins in civil and human rights law, factual roots in international humanitarian law and criminal law, recognition in regional human rights systems and international ad hoc tribunals (ICTY, ICTR, SCSL), and their apex form in the Rome Statute (2000) of the International Criminal Court (ICC), where they are entrenched in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The first half of the seminar will investigate historical settings, including the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials. The second half will focus on issues and breaking developments in contemporary cases, including several currently being prosecuted before the ICC. Special attention will be paid to the evolution of the concept of gender in this body of law: how it is obscured or mainstreamed or exposed, what difference it makes to include it within other rubrics such as torture or slavery versus separately, and how confronting gendered realities in law affects technical areas such as liability, charging, and witness preparation.

LAW-93971A Future of the Family: Adoption, Reproduction and Child Welfare: Seminar
Elizabeth Bartholet | HLS Spring
This seminar is for students interested in writing a research paper on any issue related to the above range of topics, as well as for students interested in doing papers on ideas explored in connection with any Child Advocacy Program (CAP) course (Child, Family & State, The Art of Social Change, CAP Clinic). Initial class sessions will focus on readings related to general research and writing issues, and later sessions will focus on student work. Students will receive extensive guidance and feedback on their writing. Students are encouraged to meet with the Professor prior to the start of the Spring term to discuss potential paper topics. Possible issue areas include but are not limited to: parenting and procreation; child abuse and neglect; family preservation policy; high-tech infertility treatment; the commercialization of reproduction (sale of eggs, sperm, embryos and pregnancy services); non-traditional family forms (single parenting, gay/lesbian parenting, same-sex unions and marriage, transracial and international adoption); and fetal abuse, sex selection, cloning, stem cell research and the new eugenics options.

LAW-94020A Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice: Seminar
Diane Rosenfeld | HLS Spring
This course offers an in-depth examination of the phenomenon of gender-motivated violence. Following a consideration of the prevalence and variation of types of sexual violence and coercion around the world, we consider questions such as: How, if at all, is violence against women different from other types of violence? How effective have legal strategies to address violence against women been, and what shifts in thinking about gender-motivated violence would be necessary finally to eradicate it? How does the toleration of sexual violence shape people's expectations and sense of entitlements? What are the implications of gender-based violence for the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws? Does equal protection itself have a gendered meaning and reality? Among the types of violence against women we will consider are: intimate-partner violence; domestic homicide; prostitution; rape; sex trafficking of women and children; and violence against women facilitated by the Internet. The readings consist of primary and secondary materials drawn from several disciplines: law, social science, political science, psychology, evolutionary biology and women's studies. There is no prerequisite for this class.

LAW-96715A Reproductive Technology and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues: Seminar
I. Glenn Cohen | HLS Spring
Should individuals be able to sell reproductive materials like sperm and ova, or reproductive services like surrogacy? Should the law require individuals diagnosed with diseases like Huntington's diseases to disclose to family members that they too are at risk for the disease? Should prenatal sex selection be a crime? Should federal funds be used for stem cell research? Should law enforcement be able to bank DNA samples collected from suspects and perpetrators? Should doctors be able to patent cell lines developed from their patients' bodies? Since Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, and the 1978 birth of Louis Brown, the first child conceived through in vitro fertilization, pressing questions like these have propagated. In this course we will cut across doctrinal categories to examine how well the law and medical ethics have kept up, and plot directions for fruitful development.

LAW-99420A Title IX: Seminar
Diane Rosenfeld | HLS Fall
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act promises "equal access to educational opportunities." This seminar considers how Title IX has impacted educational opportunities in relation to gender equality on campus. After a brief look at the history of Title IX and its provisions on athletics, we consider its less well-known, but equally important requirements regarding schools1' obligations to address campus sexual assault. Among the themes of the course are the social and political meaning of sports in society and women's roles in this regard. Students will participate in the drafting of a model policy on campus sexual assault that is responsive to cultural concerns pertaining to sexual respect, autonomy, and citizenship in the campus community. Readings include cases, articles, and decisions by the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Public Policy and Gender

API-901 Doctoral Research Seminar
Hannah Riley Bowles | HKS Fall
Examines social science theory, philosophy, and research methods. It includes analysis of process and product for examples of good research across a range of public policy applications. Students develop and present a research proposal for their own topic of interest.

DPI-216 Democratic Theory
Jane Mansbridge | HKS Spring
This course traces the evolution of Western democratic theory from the ancient Greeks to the present, with particular emphasis on the institutions that influenced and were in turn influenced by these evolving theories. Readings from Aristotle and Hobbes through Habermas and Foucault, with one foray into Islamic thought. The course has two aims: to give an appreciation of the history behind the ideas that shaped today’s democracies and to pose critical normative questions for today.

GOVT E-1062 Theories of Citizenship
Jan L. Feldman | Extension Fall
Citizenship is one of the few devices for countering the centrifugal forces of pluralism. Can it succeed in the face of competing demands on our loyalty and competing sources of identity? This course explores the concept of citizenship, traces its historical evolution, and discusses the special challenges of citizenship in the face of multiculturalism, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, and globalization.

ID513 Ethics and Health Disparities
Norman Daniels | HSPH Spring 1
When is an inequality in health status an injustice or inequity? This course examines various aspects of this issue, bringing appropriate perspectives from ethical theories (utilitarian, libertarian, liberal egalitarian, feminist) to bear on case studies revealing a range of important health disparities. Four main cases will be discussed, each focusing on a central type of health disparity: U.S. racial disparities, class disparities, gender disparities in a developing country setting, and global health inequalities. Key questions to be pursued in each case include: when is an inequality in health between this type of demographic variable unjust? When is a policy that produces, or fails to address, such an inequality race- or gender- or class-biased in an morally objectionable way? What ethical issues are raised by different methods of measuring health inequalities? How does ascription of responsibility for health affect the fairness of health inequalities? What kind of obligations exist to address health inequalities across national boundaries? What ethical issues are raised by policy approaches to addressing health inequalities and giving priority to reducing them?

IGA-307 Religion in Global Politics
Monica Toft | HKS Spring
Religion is clearly a force to be reckoned with in global politics. At the same time, its connection to peace, conflict, and international security is not well understood. This course starts by addressing the meaning of religion and its various manifestations around the world. It then seeks to examine the conditions under which religion contributes to conflict or cooperation in selected aspects of international politics, such as the spread of nationalism and terrorism, economic and political development, and human rights, as well as in enforcing, making, and building international peace. By the end of the course, students will have a full sense of the interplay of religion with politics, wars, and peace in the international system.

IGA-308M Inclusive Security
Swanee Hunt | HKS January
Here is an unusual opportunity to break open the concept of security and tackle leadership skills while examining the agency of women in conflicts around the world. You'll study the little understood structure of women's critical role in preventing or stopping violent conflict. Working in groups, you'll then formulate concrete policy recommendations for women's full inclusion in formal and informal peace processes. The course bridges theory and practice, providing students close interaction with inspiring female negotiators from conflicts worldwide. In addition, you'll receive individual classroom coaching to develop small presentation skills that have a big impact on leadership. Grades are heavily based on an analytical briefing paper for a policy-maker, as well as class participation. Role-play, debate, video clips, films, a mock policy briefing, and small group work enrich learning beyond readings, lectures, and classroom discussion. Many students describe this course as not only iconoclastic, but also transformational. They also say it is a relief to hear gender acknowledged as a significant factor in the field of international security.

IGA-315 Civil Wars: Theory and Policy
Monica Toft | HKS Spring
Introduces students to the analytical and comparative study of civil wars. The origins, course, and termination of historical and contemporary civil wars will be analyzed from a variety of perspectives and literatures, and prominent cases will be analyzed and discussed in depth. The course aims to provide students with a solid theoretical and historical foundation and to highlight the difficult policy dilemmas associated with civil wars, such as the tension between states’ rights and human rights and whether and how to intervene.

PED-317Y Closing the Global Gender Gap
Iris Bohnet; Rohini Pande | HKS Year
Understanding the role of gender in shaping the political, economic and social opportunities available to individuals can help us evaluate how societies may close gender gaps in economic participation, education, health and political opportunity. Building on insights from Behavioral Decision Making and Development Economics, it provides a framework to understand to what degree public policy and management can close these gaps. Using program evaluation techniques, the course trains students on how to combine analysis and data to design and test specific interventions. The format of this course differs from the norm to maximize student learning, interaction with faculty and guest experts, and opportunities to share insights with decision makers in the field. The course is co-taught and conceived as a year-long course with a period of intense training and interaction in January. Students are welcome to use this course to further develop material useful for their PAEs, SYPAs or other papers.Prerequisite:Statistical knowledge at the level of an advanced statistics/econometrics course (e.g., API-202 or API-210) presumed.

SHH215 History, Politics & Public Health:Theories of Disease Distribution
Nancy Krieger | HSPH Fall
This course focuses on social and scientific contexts, content, and implications of theories of disease distribution, past and present. It considers how these theories shape questions people ask about--and explanations and interventions they offer for--patterns of health, disease, and well-being in their societies. After examining the role of theory in the production of scientific knowledge, Part I reviews both text-based theories of disease distribution developed in ancient Greece, China, and India, and oral traditions reflecting diverse American Indian, Latin American, African, and medieval European explanations of disease distribution. Parts II and III then focus on theories employed in past and present epidemiologic research because of their influence on current efforts to understand and improve the public's health. Part II considers the rise of epidemiology as a distinct discipline in both Europe and the United States, from 1700 to 1950. Part III examines current theories and controversies, and employs selected case examples to illustrate their application to--and implications for understanding--current and changing population distributions of disease and social inequalities in health, especially in relation to class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Emphasizing relationships between epidemiologic theory and practice, theories and frameworks covered include: miasma, contagion, germ theory, biomedical model, lifestyle, social production of disease, population health, lifecourse, health and human rights, and ecosocial theory.

SUP-201 Poverty and Social Policy
Kathryn Edin | HKS Fall
Examines the causes and consequences of poverty and explores strategies for addressing it. Begins with the major theoretical explanations scholars have advanced to explain the persistence of poverty including family structure, urban labor markets, residential segregation, welfare policy, the criminal justice system, and other topics. The focus then shifts to the consequences of poverty, especially for children. Throughout the course, students are introduced to current policy approaches to alleviating poverty.

SUP-921 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I
Jeffrey Liebman; Kathryn Edin | HKS Fall
The first doctoral seminar in the Inequality & Social Policy three-course sequence, this course considers the effects of policies and institutions in creating or reducing inequality in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, we well as the reciprocal effects of inequality on political activity and policy choices.

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Gender-focused Research

GSAS 17353 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 3000. Reading and Research
Bradley S. Epps and members of the Committee | FAS Fall, Spring

GSAS 4429 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1300: Approaches to Research and Writing in WGS
Caroline Light & staff | FAS Fall
The objective of the course is to provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge, engage feminist epistemologies, and employ feminist methodologies in working on a research project over the course of the semester in each student's area of interest.

GSAS 5590 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1210ft: Feminist Theory
Alice Jardine | FAS Spring
At once assumed as givens and reviled as aberrations, the classics of American postwar, mainstream feminist thought are rarely re-read. In this seminar, we will read critically across four decades of influential feminist texts, keeping constantly in view the philosophical and political, psychological and historical, legal and ethical questions at the heart of women, gender, and sexuality studies today.

GSAS 5847 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 99b. Tutorial—Senior Year
Linda Schlossberg | FAS Fall, Spring

GSAS 6225 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Caroline Light & staff | FAS Fall, Spring
The study of selected topics in studies of women, gender, and sexuality.

GSAS 6763 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 99a: Tutorial - Senior Year
Linda Schlossberg | FAS Fall

GSAS 7217 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 97: Tutorial-Sophomore Year
Linda Schlossberg | FAS Spring
An introduction to foundational concepts and analytical tools in the study of gender and sexuality. Focus on the ways in which diverse people have understood gender, sexuality, race, and nationhood as categories of knowledge. Case studies of activists and theorists forging complex alliances across unstable differences. Readings include Gloria Anzaldua, Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Inderpal Grewal, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, Alison Bechdel, and Michel Foucault.

GSAS 8094 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 98r. Tutorial—Junior Year
Caroline Light & staff | FAS Fall, Spring

GSAS 9620 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 2000: Introduction to WGS: Graduate Proseminar
Bradley S. Epps | FAS Fall
An overview of major questions raised by the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, and sexuality and the challenges thus raised to traditional divisions of knowledge. We will privilege dialogue and process while assessing trends in the often tense, but overlapping, areas of feminist, lgbt and queer inquiry. Special attention given to intersectional and international issues across a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, sexology, critical theory, economics, law, cultural studies, literature, art, and film.

WGH300 Women, Gender and Health: Indpendent Study
WGH Faculty | HSPH Fall/Spring
An opportunity for independent study is offered for interested and qualified students or small groups of students. Arrangements must be made with individual faculty members and are limited by the amount of faculty time available. These programs are open to all students who wish to go beyond the content of regular courses.

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Health and Gender

Family Health and Gender

AC505M.40 Family Medicine Elective
Katherine Elizabeth Miller | HMS
This elective is designed for students who are seeking an intensive focussed experience in urban community Family Medicine.Students will spend the bulk of this month seeing patients under supervision of family medicine faculty preceptors in affiliated community health centers and/or private group practices in Cambridge, Somerville and Arlington.Students will see the full spectrum of Family Medicine( including Obstetrics and office based procedures in certain circumstances) in the context of a multiethnic community with an emphasis on underserved populations( notably those from Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian Creole- speaking origins).Students will actively participate in the initial formulation of patient assessment and management plans through oral and written presentations.Students will follow the clinical course of these patients' experience during the month.Students will complete a structured Family/Community Study of one patient .This project emphasises the social and behavioral effects on the patient's health and often involves a home visit.

SHH208 Adolescent Health
Michael Rich, Pamela Burke | HSPH Fall 2
Adolescent health risk behaviors, prevention and intervention programs will be examined in relation to adolescent physical, psychosocial, and cognitive development. Topics will include theories of behavioral change, access to health care, guidelines for preventive services, outcomes research, health policy, and alternative sites for care. Risk behaviors, including injury, violence, suicide, substance use and sexuality will be explored. Focus will be primarily domestic, with examples of federal, state, and community-based adolescent health initiatives.

SHH222 Social Services for Children, Adolescents and Families
Lisa Tieszen | HSPH Spring 2
Presents the crucial role of social services in maintaining and promoting the health of children and their families. Beginning with a historical overview of social services in the U.S., the course examines current political trends that structure the content and delivery of social services. The social and psychological determinants of the need for social services focus on events of public health relevance, including poverty in childhood, adoption/foster care, family violence, child care, and mental health services for children.

Health, Politics, Policy and Gender

GHP267 HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Epidemiology and National Responses
Daniel Halperin | HSPH Fall 2
This course is designed to provide a broad description of the distinct features of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries, and the evolution of national responses against HIV/AIDS in selected countries. The course will focus on sub-Saharan Africa, although relevant examples from other developing countries will be addressed during the presentations and discussions. At the beginning of the course, an overview of the status of the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be presented and followed by a discussion of the methods used to derive regional HIV/AIDS estimates. Later, specific factors contributing to the severe HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa will be examined, and strategies that could be used to reduce further spread of the epidemic will be discussed. Subsequent sessions will focus on the evolution of national responses against HIV/AIDS epidemic in selected countries. In each country, the main features of the national HIV/AIDS control program will be described, and the key strategies adopted in reducing further spread of the HIV epidemic will be presented and critiqued.

GSAS 21083 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1221: Medical Management of the Female Body
Caroline Light and Sarah Richardson | FAS Spring
This course examines how Western medical knowledge, practices, and institutions define female health and normality and manage diseased and gender-variant female bodies. How, for instance, does medicine conceive of the female body as a medical problem or mystery and how do race, class, and sexuality inflect these conceptions? Topics include: "female maladies," medicalization of childbirth and the pregnant body, medical management of transgender and intersexed bodies, ideals of fitness, cosmetic surgery, disability, and pharmaceutical marketing.

GSAS 4563 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1125: Gender and Health
Mary Ruggie | FAS Spring
Based on theoretical debates between feminism and science and different understandings of health, illness, and healing, we explore the role of women, the medical profession, and various social institutions in constructing knowledge about gender and health. Among the issues we discuss are health behaviors, reproductive health, STDs, mental health, cancer, and aging. Throughout, we identify differences among women and men of different class, race, and ethnic groups.

GSAS 81052 History of Science 108: Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East
Ahmed Ragab | FAS Spring
This course will examine the ways in which medical, religious, cultural, and political discourses and practices interacted in the medieval and early modern Middle East to create and reflect multiple understandings of human bodies and sexualities. Special attention to debates on health, sexuality, and gender and racial identities.

ME552M.3 Women's Health Elective
Olga J.M. Smulders-Meyer | HMS Both
The course will cover common primary care problems in women, including contraception, office gynecology, endocrine disorders, eating disorders, issues around menopause, breast cancer screening, medical problems in pregnancy, and common dermatoses seen in women. Students will see patients under the close supervision of the preceptor in our offices at Women's Health Associates. They also have an opportunity to rotate through the breast clinic, colposcopy clinic, and other specialties of their particular interest. The student will also learn how to incorporate the history and physical examination into a concise and comprehensive note that reflects the visit.

SHH201 Society and Health
Ichiro Kawachi | HSPH Fall 1
Analyzes major social variables that affect population health: poverty, social class, gender, race, family, community, work, behavioral risks, and coping resources. Examines health consequences of social and economic policies, and the potential role of specific social interventions. Reviews empirical and theoretical literature on mechanisms and processes that mediate between social factors and their health effects, and discusses alternative models for advancing public health.

SHH210 Women, Health, and Development
Norma Swenson | HSPH Spring
Many state, local, and national governments now have Women's Health programs. The course surveys selected contemporary women and health issues in a global and historical context. Because women - and their children - worldwide are the majority of the poor, we will focus on a common framework: the impact of economic development alongside the impact of laws, customs, and medical systems that affect the human development and health of women and their families. We also analyze key roles women play in caregiving and in health and medical care services. Through written and oral testimonies, and policy letters, students will be able to develop advocacy and policy analysis skills, using epidemiological review, gender analysis, media monitoring, and an introduction to Evidence Based Medicine in medical technologies for healthy women. A critical framework derived from a variety of social science disciplines, and including human rights research, also illuminates the worldwide activism of the women's health movement.

SHH237 Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
Jay Silverman | HSPH Fall 2
This course will present students with the state of knowledge in the field of intimate partner violence, Sexual assault and sex trafficking prevention (i.e., epidemiology of perpetration and victimization, prevention program models and legal frameworks, evaluations of prevention programs, approaches to research), and how individuals with academic public health training can work with practitioners and policy makers to improve prevention of violence against women in a range of practice areas. Students will be encouraged to integrate provided academic and programmatic knowledge in the pursuit of public health research and practice. Guest speakers will describe a range of prevention program models and policies, and provide insight into the need for and utility of related public health research.

SM720.0 Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Health
Patricia Leigh Case & Elizabeth Miller | HMS TBA
This seminar examines broadly the construction of gender and sexuality in relation to health care inequalities, distribution of disease, illness experiences and health policy. The course will draw on readings from the history of medicine, feminist anthropology, gay/lesbian studies, epidemiology and health policy. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which race/ethnicity, social class and poverty intersect with gender differences in health. Specific areas to be discussed include the history of women's health and homosexuality in the discourses of madness, domestic violence, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS in the US and abroad, politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies, and other related topics. Students are strongly encouraged to also enroll in Human Sexuality, ME735.0.

WGH211 Gender and Health: Introductory Perspectives
Stacey Missmer | HSPH Fall 1
This course will introduce students to gender as a theoretical concept and a category of analysis in public health-that is, the way gender has contributed to differentially structuring women and men's experiences of health. The course aims to answer such questions as: How has gender influenced the construction of public health in diverse societies? How do our social frameworks and structures, such as gender, affect people's experiences and expectations of health? This course is designed for students who wish to enhance their understanding of, and skills to address, the social and cultural factors that have influenced the development of individual's and societal health. The interfaces among gender, class, race/ethnicity and sexuality will also be emphasized. The course will cover a broad range of health issues for which gender has been of special importance. Topics to be covered include: reproductive health, sexual health and sexuality; violence; occupational health and work; chronic and communicable disease. Issues relating to the distribution of health, disease and well-being, including policy, will be addressed across sessions. Additionally, sessions will include international, domestic, and historical perspectives, with attention paid to both epidemiologic research and policy dimensions.

WGH220 Sexuality and Public Health
Bryn Sydney Austin | HSPH Fall 2
This course provides an introduction to the breadth of research and research methods in the study of sexuality and sexual health promotion in diverse contexts and populations. Students will develop skills needed to carry out epidemiologic research and community-based interventions related to sexual health promotion. Students will be introduced to ways to integrate conceptual models, methodologies, and perspectives from a variety of fields to inform a unique transdisciplinary, holistic approach to public health promotion of sexual health. Class session format includes lectures, discussions, case studies, individual and group presentations, and in-class writing assignments.

Mental Health and Gender

WGH210 Women, Gender, and Health: Issues in Mental Health
Barbara Gottlieb | HSPH Fall 2
This course explores issues relevant to mental illness, mental health from a gender perspective. Course themes include illness constructs, life cycle and transitions, collective and individual trauma, role and relationship and embodiment. Topics include eating disorders, pain, hormonally mediated mood disorders, and PTSD. Examples highlight US and international experience. Readings are multidisciplinary, including public health and medicine, social sciences, history and literature.

WGH304 Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health - Independent Study
Barbara Gottlieb | HSPH Fall 2
This independent study course is offered to students who are enrolled in WGH 210 Fall 2. The course will supplement the themes and topics of WGH 210, including illness constructs, trauma, embodiment, pain and eating disorders with a mentored field and service learning experience. Students will be required to provide 20 hours of service to one of several local sites selected for their relevance to course themes (for example, a shelter, an psychiatric in-patient unit, a school-based clinic), maintain a structured portfolio of reflections and commentary based on field experiences and readings, and attend 2 mentoring sessions. This course may only be taken in conjunction with WGH210.

Reproductive Health and Gender

AE502M.1 Pain Relief in Childbirth
Philip E. Hess | HMS Both
This course covers the theory and practice of pain relief during childbirth and the medical management of high risk obstetrical patients. Special attention will be focused on the interaction between obstetric anesthetic techniques and maternal/fetal physiology. The student will work closely with the obstetric anesthesia team (residents, fellow, and attendings) in the daily activities including providing analgesia for labor and anesthesia for cesarean delivery. Students will be expected to perform medical assessments, play an active role in the anesthetic care, and round on their patients the following day. In addition, the students will be assigned to follow particular high risk patients and will be expected to research and discuss the anesthetic implications of their diseases. Schedule will be M-F 7am to 5pm. Students will attend all afternoon and morning lectures. Overnight and weekend call is optional at the discretion of the student.

EPI269 Epidemiological Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Karin Brigitte Michels, Daniel Cramer, Katheryn Terry | HSPH Fall 2
This course will provide an overview of the current research in reproductive epidemiology. The course will cover epidemiologic research in the areas of contraception, infertility, pregnancy, menopause, and both benign and malignant gynecological conditions. Students will be introduced to methods used in reproductive epidemiology and learn how to critically evaluate results from epidemiologic studies in obstetrics and gynecology. An overview of the clinical and physiological underpinnings of particular topical areas will be provided.

GHP502 International Reproductive Health Issues: From Theory to Practice
Kelly Blanchard, David Bloom | HSPH Spring 1
This seminar will offer students the opportunity to explore the development and implementation of reproductive health research projects and programmatic initiatives in international settings. Through the examination of weekly case studies, students will acquire a better understanding of the complexity of working in the field of reproductive health in the international context and an appreciation of the ways in which the perspectives and methods of various health and social science disciplines can be integrated in the development of effective health programs. Session topics will include family planning, emergency contraception, abortion, and HIV/AIDS. Presenters will draw on case studies from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East, and will identify both technical and programmatic challenges as well as successful interventions.

HT070.0 Human Reproductive Biology
Henry Klapholz | HMS Fall
This course is designed to give the students a clear understanding of the pathophysiology of the menstrual cycle, fertilization, implantation, ovum growth development, differentiation and associated abnormalities. Disorders of fetal development including the principles of teratology and the mechanism of normal and abnormal parturition will be covered, as well as ethical issues in reproductive science and significant medical issues affecting pregnant women such as pre-eclampsia and diabetes. Fetal asphyxia and its consequences will be reviewed with emphasis on the technology currently available for its detection. In addition the conclusion of the reproductive cycle, menopause, and the use of hormonal replacement will be covered. Emphasis on quantitative techniques, when applicable, including modern approaches to fetal surveillance and in vitro fertilization as well as prenatal diagnosis will be employed. Each lecture will be complemented by a brief clinical pathologic conference emphasizing relevant clinical applications of basic principles discussed in the lectures. Weekly thought questions will be assigned and a multiple choice final examination is given.

OB501M.1 Sub Internship in Obstetrics
Kee-Hak Lim | HMS Both
The student will participate as an acting intern on the Obstetrical Service. He/she will admit patients on Labor and Delivery, assess status, perform pelvic examinations, perform initial screening ultrasound examinations, go to high risk clinic, fully participate and perform deliveries of uncomplicated patients under supervision, and participate in all rounds and conferences of the service. Selected interesting high risk patients will be offered as well. The subintern will also participate actively in any surgical procedures on his/her patients. Private, as well as clinic patients, will be available for care. The subintern will be on night shift two times per week with rotating schedule as to fit the needs of the service. The subintern will be responsible directly to the chief resident on Labor and Delivery and ultimately to the attending physician for each patient treated.

Medical Health

OB505M.1 Gynecologic Oncology
Christopher S. Awtrey | HMS Both
This course is primarily a clinical experience, focused on providing the student with a fund of knowledge in the diagnosis, natural history, and management of gynecologic tumors. The multidisciplinary approach to cancer management will be emphasized. Students will attend weekly colposcopy clinics. Students will also see patients with attendings during outpatient sessions. Each student will be assigned several patients to follow in the hospital. The student will perform the preoperative evaluation, attend surgery, and follow the patient postoperatively. Management will be discussed with the faculty at daily beside teaching rounds. The students will present their patients at a weekly multidisciplinary gynecologic tumor conference and be expected to provide a discussion of management options. During the four weeks, the student will be expected to prepare a literature review relevant to a case on the service. The topic will be selected together with the course director and will emphasize the multimodality approach to cancer management. The student will prepare a oral report of his/her literature review.

OB505M.18 Tumor Immunology in Gynecologic Malignancy
Ross Stuart Berkowitz | HMS Both
This course is designed to provide research experience in molecular biology as it applies to gynecologic oncology. The student will be assigned reading material and will be expected to participate in discussions on recent scientific concepts at weekly laboratory meetings. Research in which the student may participate is centered on molecular biologic studies concerning the pathogenesis of gynecologic malignancy and, in particular, ovarian cancer.

OB505M.23 Gynecologic Oncology
Ross Stuart Berkowitz | HMS Both
The course is designed to provide a sound background, relevant to neoplastic disease in general, in the early detection, diagnosis and management of gynecologic cancer. Weekly clinics will be devoted to early detection of cervical neoplasia and the correlation of clinical cytologic and histologic findings. Students will have an opportunity to actively participate in surgical, radiotherapeutic and chemotherapeutic management of individual patients. Investigative aspects of anti-cancer pharmacology and immunology will be considered.

ON505M.3 Gynecologic Oncology and Pathology
Annekathryn Goodman & Robert Henry Young | HMS Both
The student will function as a sub intern on the gyn oncology service at MGH during the 4 week block. This involves the following: --Rounding with the house staff and following individually assigned patients --Scrubbing in surgical cases every day --Spending one session per week in the outpatient gyn oncology practice --Spending two sessions with the gyn pathologist in intensive pathology review -The student will attend all the weekly gyn oncology conferences which are: --Monday - Surgical Teaching conference 7 am,; --Monday - Gynecologic Oncology Didactic Lecture 5:30pm --Tuesday - Combined Gyn Benign Gyn Oncology Case review --Wednesday 7 am Gyn Oncology Tumor Board --Thursday OB GYN didactics 7:30-8:30 am --Thursday OB GYN Grand Rounds 8:30 am --Friday Gyn Oncology Chemotherapy Meeting

OB506M.23 Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology
Janis Heid Fox | HMS Both
The course is designed to acquaint students with current concepts of infertility and management of interrelated reproductive endocrine problems and to familiarize them with laboratory techniques used in evaluating patients with such problems. Students will observe the workup and care of fertility and endocrinology patients as well as patients with recurrent miscarriage. There is extensive exposure to surgical management of such patients, including mininmally invasive surgery and robotic cases. They will attend conferences and seminars related to these subjects. Students will also have exposure to laboratory techniques used in the work up and treatment of such patients. Exposure to assisted reproductive technologies in clinics and laboratories, and pediatric gynecology and endocrinology is also available and encouraged.

OB506M.5 Advanced Clinical Elective in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
HMS
Students will evaluate patients presenting with a range of reproductive endocrine and infertility problems. They will be responsible for obtaining a comprehensive history and focused exam on new reproductive endocrine and infertility patients, focusing on the key factors that impact a couples reproductive concerns. The students will be instructed in the technique involved in performing hysterosalpingograms and sonohysterograms in the office and will assist with these procedures. Students will have the opportunity to observe reproductive surgery in an outpatient surgicenter. They will be able to observe IVF procedures and spend time observing embryologists handle gametes and embryos in the embryology laboratory. Students will be taught the basics of performing a semen analysis and sperm preparation for intrauterine insemination.

OB510M.23 Maternal Fetal Medicine
Thomas Frederick McElrath | HMS Both
During their rotation as subinterns on the MFM inpatient service, students actively admit and follow patients, participating in their procedures and deliveries. The students are expected to be the physicians for their panel of patients under the supervision of the MFM fellows, a third year obstetrics resident and the attending perinatologist. Formal structured teaching occurs during Wednesday didactic sessions, after morning rounds and during weekly perinatal conferences. Students are expected to take night call, but the schedule is flexible. Grading is based on evaluations from resident staff, fellows and divisional faculty.

OB600M.1 Obstetrics/Gynecology Core Clerkship
Katharyn Meredith Atkins & Hope A. Ricciotti | HMS Both

OB600M.11 Obstetrics/Gynecology Core Clerkship
Charles Yoich Kawada & Bindiya Stancampiano | HMS Both

OB600M.23 Obstetrics/Gynecology Core Clerkship
Robert Barbieri; Natasha R. Johnson; Michael Robert Stelluto | HMS Both

OB600M.3 Obstetrics/Gynecology Core Clerkship
Holly Ruth Khachadoorian-Elia; Amy Uchechi Wosu; Michele Carey York-Best | HMS Both

OB600M.6c Obstetrics/Gynecology Core Clerkship - CIC
David Alan Hirsh; Barbara Ogur; Arthur G. Spector | HMS Both

PA504.23 Gynecologic Pathology
Christopher Plum Crum | HMS Both
Students are integrated into the daily activities of the Women's and Perinatal Pathology Division, which encompass tissue gynecologic oncology, placental and perinatal pathology and biopsy services. They are supervised by the staff and fellows and provided a seat with a microscope. They are expected to participate in the following activities: 1) Attendance at the daily diagnostic case sign-out sessions. 2) Weekly conference attendance incuding tumor conference, problem case review conference, Pap smear biopsy correlation conference, and weekly Women's and Perinatal Conference. 3) Shadowing fellows and residents in gross room activities, frozen section consultations and fetal and perinatal autopsies. 4) Involvement in short research projects, time and interest permitting. 5) Review of the interesting case files to broaden their scope of difficult pathologic diagnoses, time and interest permitting. 6) An optional presentation to the Pathology Department at the end of their month on the service. 7) A mandatory short oral exam at the end of the course will determine the degree of information retention.

SU503M.12 Breast Diseases
Mary Jane Houlihan | HMS Both
This course is multidisciplinary in nature, designed to help the fourth year student develop an understanding of both benign and malignant breast disease, and the problems encountered by women suffering from them. The experience will focus on honing basic clinical and surgical skills, as well as developing an understanding of and appreciation for the psychosocial aspects of breast disease. As such, this course is aimed at the generalist student, not just students considering surgery as a career. Students will spend 25 hours a week in clinical activities in the Breast Care Center at BIDMC. Students will be assigned their own patients, and be responsible for taking histories, performing physical examinations, reviewing mammograms and ultrasounds, and evaluating the patient's problem and developing therapeutic options. In cases where surgery is indicated, the student will follow his/her patient, actively assist in the surgery, and meet during surgery with the pathologist diagnosing the surgical specimen. Students will follow their own patients post-operatively, and participate in planning their management. Students will also participate in the multi-disciplinary breast clinic and spend time in Breast Imaging and Pathology.

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Religion and Gender

GSAS 0352 Culture and Belief 41: Gender, Islam, and Nation in the Middle East and North Africa
Afsaneh Najmabadi | FAS Spring
This course will focus on how concepts of woman and gender have defined meanings of religious and national communities in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa. It will survey changes in these concepts historically through reading a variety of sources–religious texts and commentaries, literary and political writings, books of advice, women's writings, and films–and will look at how contemporary thinkers and activists ground themselves differently in this historical heritage to constitute contesting positions regarding gender and national politics today.

HDS 2105 The Cult of Literature and Its Feminist Dissenters
Zhange Ni HDS | Spring
After surveying the formation of the modern discourse of literature as a surrogate religion within the context of the post-Enlightenment, (post)Christian, and Bourgeoisie West, this course focuses on the feminist discontents and dissents in reaction to this cult of literature. We will read poetry, fiction, and prose by Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Cynthia Ozick, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, and Aileen Chang to examine how feminist writers challenge and reconstitute the sacred claims of literature from the intertwining perspectives of gender, class, ethnicity, and other religious/cultural traditions.

HDS 2106 Women and Religious Law in Comparative Perspective
Yuksel Sezgin | HDS Spring
The course will expose students to major religious traditions and their treatment of women's rights from a comparative perspective by looking at the field of family law. Through a cross-country examination of contemporary women's movements around the globe, the course will demonstrate that women are not just passive victims of "religious patriarchy", but they actively challenge the authority of male-dominated religious institutions to induce reform from within by engaging in various forms of feminist theology.

HDS 2107 Women, Justice and Shariah
Hauwa Ibrahim | HDS Fall
This course will address the practical as well as theoretical challenges of protecting women's rights under Shariah Law as it is practiced in Nigeria. The course will explore the tensions between Rule of Law and Rule of the Law in Shariah States; the question as to whether basic human rights, as defined by international standards, are protected. The outcomes of this course will be a 'white paper' by students on the dialectics of justice and Shariah.

HDS 2203 Love and Money in the Twentieth-Century Revival
Bethany Moreton | HDS Fall
When service eclipsed manufacturing in the late twentieth century, religious responses to the new economic order were among the most dramatic developments. This course considers relationships among production, reproduction, and economic theology, with particular attention to the worldwide revival of sexually conservative religion since the mid-twentieth century. Authors include Tanya Erzen, Michael Taussig, Aihwa Ong, Nicole Woolsey Biggart, the Comaroffs, Luis D. Leon, Cecília Loreto Mariz, Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini.

HDS 2204 Power, Piety and Politics in the Americas
Pamela Voekel | HDS Spring
This course probes the relationship between religion and shifting gender, racial, political and economic configurations in the Americas. We will debate religion's role in the rise of the masculine individual at the heart of classical Enlightenment thought, as well as in the creation of serious political and economic alternatives to individualism and liberal democracy. The course opens with theoretical readings on gender, liberalism, and the subject of modernity, including works by Joan Scott, Saba Mahmood, and Max Weber, and moves on to particular episodes drawn from the past three centuries in the Americas.

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Society, Culture and Gender

Anthropology and Gender

GSAS 1976 Foreign Cultures 60 : Individual, Community, and Nation in Vietnam
Hue-Tam Ho Tai | FAS Spring
Can a society modernize yet preserve its cultural identity? We will explore this issue with reference to Vietnam, where a Marxist-Leninist political system co-exists with a market economy. Modernization has been accompanied by a revival of tradition, religion, and rituals; urbanization by renewed stress on village solidarity. Gender roles are being transformed. Family relationships are being reshaped by increased mobility and new means of communications. Migration to the uplands is changing local cultures even as ethnic minorities are offered to global tourists as icons of authenticity. What does it mean to be Vietnamese under these circumstances?

GSAS 4211 Spanish 172: Barcelona and Modernity
Bradley S. Epps | FAS Fall
Examines the construction, expansion, and transformation of Barcelona as cultural capital of Catalonia and as site of political and aesthetic experimentation from the mid-19th century to the present. Drawing on literature, criticism, visual arts, architecture, urban planning, film, and music, we explore national identity, nationalism, and language; bilingualism and multiculturalism; and the relations between art and economics, political conformity and resistance.

GSAS 57498 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1411: Native American Cultures: Studies in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Caroline Light and Keridwen Luis | FAS Fall
This course examines issues of gender, sex, and sexuality in various Native American cultures in a historical, anthropological, and political context. We will explore sex roles, marriage and the family, and gender variant identities, as well as the massive impact of colonialization, racism, and missionary activity on gendered understandings in present-day American cultures.

GSAS 93913 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1163: Cultures of Sexuality in Global Perspective
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti | FAS Fall
This course asks students to examine issues of sexuality and identity in a global perspective, in places including the Caribbean, North America, and South Asia. How do personal and legal definitions of practices, desires, and identities change in relation to specific geographies and histories? Topics will include: prostitution/sex work, HIIV-AIDS, discrimination and the law, activism and organizing.

Education and Gender

GSAS 72986 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1168 : Education, Race, and Gender in the United States
Chiwen Bao | FAS Fall
Education in the United States often appears as democratizing and a means of upward mobility, an idea complicated by issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, all of which shape students' and teachers' experiences. This class examines theoretical and empirical studies on various schooling spaces and practices and explores how intersecting constructs of identity - such as girl, boy, black, Latino/a, Asian, white - become meaningful in schools and bear implications for individuals and society.

T311A Gender and Sexuality in Schools: School Climate and the Hidden Curriculum
Sherry Lynn Deckman | HGSE Spring
This module will explore both the role of gender and sexuality in shaping young people's schooling experiences, opportunities, and outcomes, and the role of schooling experiences in shaping young people's notions of gender and sexuality. In many ways, the module is about the "hidden curriculum" of heteronormativity, or the subtle practices in schools that privilege heterosexual, gendered identities and ways of being. As such, students in the module will apply the concept of the hidden curriculum to the study of gender and schooling in order to understand why and how boys and girls experience schooling differently, and also why and how heteronormative schooling detrimentally impacts not only LGBTQ students but all students. The module draws on a variety of literature including theoretical works; qualitative and quantitative empirical research; applied, practical texts; and instructional materials for K-12 educators such as young adult novels. Students enrolled in the module will have the opportunity to build the knowledge and skills necessary to addressing gender and sexuality-related inequity in schools of various levels. The module will meet once a week for three hours across six sessions.

History and Gender

GSAS 4121 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1233: Gender, Sexual Violence, and Empire
Katherine Stanton | FAS Spring
Making the case for what Deepika Bahri identifies as the "prominent and constitutive" role of gender-and sexuality-in colonial formations, this course will examine how gendered and sexed ideas and practices were critical to signifying racial difference, naturalizing exploitation, symbolizing the colonial mission, and managing colonial economies. We will ask, with Ann Laura Stoler, was sexual domination a metaphor for colonial power, or the very "substance" of imperial policy?

GSAS 65457 Japanese History 145: Lady Samurai in Medieval Japan
Tomoko Kitagawa | FAS Spring
This course will offer a look at gender representation found in original historical records such as letters and diaries, and examine women's roles in society, ways of life, and sexuality in Japan from the 12th century to the end of 16th century with a comparison to their male contemporaries - the Samurai.

GSAS 72273 History 74m: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in Nineteenth-Century America
Ann Marie Wilson | FAS Fall
This seminar explores the varied, fascinating, and often perplexing social reform movements that flourished in nineteenth-century America. From temperance and abolitionism, to labor radicalism and utopian socialism, to free love and women's rights, we will examine the ways historians have approached and evaluated the many strains of American dissent. Themes will include: class formation and "social control"; religious revivalism; slavery and emancipation; immigration; gender and sexuality; diets and bodies; and transnational influences on reform.

GSAS 7429 African and African American Studies 118: The History of African Americans From the Slave Trade to the Great Migration
Jason Sokol | FAS Spring
Topics include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of freedom; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the Civil War; Reconstruction; African Americans in the Jim Crow South; and the Great Migration. Thematically, we explore the meaning of freedom, the dynamic between black struggle and white resistance, and the ways in which factors like gender and geography complicated any notions of a single black experience.

GSAS 8070 History 2805: Gender and Sexuality: Comparative Historical Studies of Islamic Middle East, North Africa, South, and East Asia: Seminar
Afsaneh Najmabadi | FAS Fall
Informed by theories of gender and sexuality, this seminar investigates how historically notions of desire, body, sex, masculinity, femininity, gender and sexual subjectivities have formed and reformed in Islamicate cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South and East Asia.

GSAS 83347 History 1462: History of Sexuality in Modern West
Nancy F. Cott | FAS Spring
Focusing mainly on the United States and secondarily on Europe, this course will examine changing sexual cultures and their relation to political economy as well as to gender norms from the 17th through 20th centuries. The emergence and ascendance of the concepts of sexuality, heterosexuality and homosexuality will be examined through intellectual and social history.

SHH215 History, Politics & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distribution
Nancy Krieger | HSPH Fall
This course focuses on social and scientific contexts, content, and implications of theories of disease distribution, past and present. It considers how these theories shape questions people ask about--and explanations and interventions they offer for--patterns of health, disease, and well-being in their societies. After examining the role of theory in the production of scientific knowledge, Part I reviews both text-based theories of disease distribution developed in ancient Greece, China, and India, and oral traditions reflecting diverse American Indian, Latin American, African, and medieval European explanations of disease distribution. Parts II and III then focus on theories employed in past and present epidemiologic research because of their influence on current efforts to understand and improve the public's health. Part II considers the rise of epidemiology as a distinct discipline in both Europe and the United States, from 1700 to 1950. Part III examines current theories and controversies, and employs selected case examples to illustrate their application to--and implications for understanding--current and changing population distributions of disease and social inequalities in health, especially in relation to class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Emphasizing relationships between epidemiologic theory and practice, theories and frameworks covered include: miasma, contagion, germ theory, biomedical model, lifestyle, social production of disease, population health, lifecourse, health and human rights, and ecosocial theory.

Race, Ethnicity and Gender

GSAS 72986 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1168: Education, Race, and Gender in the United States
Chiwen Bao | FAS Fall
Education in the United States often appears as democratizing and a means of upward mobility, an idea complicated by issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, all of which shape students' and teachers' experiences. This class examines theoretical and empirical studies on various schooling spaces and practices and explores how intersecting constructs of identity - such as girl, boy, black, Latino/a, Asian, white - become meaningful in schools and bear implications for individuals and society.

Sexuality and Gender

GSAS 3822 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1409: Transsexuality, Transgenderism, and the Rest
Afsaneh Najmabadi | FAS Spring
This course will cover narrative, anthropological, historical, scientific, and theoretical texts (including films) about transexuality and transgenderism. The course will begin with transexuality before and beyond identity politics and its transformation in the light/shadow of identity politics and theories of gender; it will consider these issues initially in a Euro-American context, but also move onto other socio-cultural formations and consider how trans-subjectivities as well as histories and politics of transexuality and transgenderism have been formed transnationally.

GSAS 44637 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1242: Masculinities
Cameron Elliot Partridge | FAS Fall
From politics, to professional sports, to action films, ideas of "what makes a man" are ever-present. This course introduces students to ideas of masculinity in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability, socio-economic class, and religion. Questions include: Why are certain mannerisms, activities, professions, and even objects considered masculine? How have ideas of masculinity changed over time and in relation to various debates around health, morality, and the family?

GSAS 5605 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1238. Consuming Passions
Caroline Light | FAS
Fall Course explores how sexuality and desire frame experiences of consumption historically, and how unequal distributions of global power influence the relationship between producers of globally marketed goods and services and those who consume them. Topics include sex tourism, migrant domestic labor, international adoption and surrogacy, and the commercialization of same-sex desire.

GSAS 64666 United States in the World 26: Sex and the Citizen
Caroline Light | FAS Spring
Even before the formal establishment of the United States, assumptions about sex have helped determine who is entitled to - and not entitled to - the privileges and protections of full citizenship. This course investigates the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality have played in configuring notions of citizenship over time as well as the ways in which sexual rights remain a site of contestation and struggle in the modern United States.

GSAS 6527 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1226: Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and U.S. Latino Culture
Bradley S. Epps | FAS Spring
Focuses on 20th-century narrative fiction, testimony, and film by or about women and non-heteronormative men from a variety of linguistic cultures (French, Spanish, Creole, Maya-Quiche, English, Portuguese), paying special attention the ties and tensions between feminism, queer theory, and post-colonialism. Other topics include gender and genre; sexuality and the state; social engagement and artistic autonomy; nationality, nationalism, and internationalism; class conflict and the global market; family formations and kinship; ritual and religion; homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism; authoritarianism and democracy

Society and Gender

GSAS 3232 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 96-ABL: Off the Page and Into the World: Feminist Praxis in the Community
Susan B. Marine | FAS Spring
This course will involve students in experiential learning in community agencies that serve women, girls, and/or gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. The course will require students to apply feminist theory to the challenges of organized social change. Internship placements of 8 hours a week in a community agency or non-profit organization must be approved by the instructors, in projects that advance students' knowledge of the intersection of identities, feminist ideologies, and feminist praxis.

GSAS 72605 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1500: The Working World: Contemporary Problems in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Karen P. Flood | FAS Spring
This capstone seminar allows advanced students to synthesize previous semesters of study while looking ahead to their working lives after graduation. The course will examine the evolution of feminist scholarship on work broadly defined, and students will independently investigate a contemporary problem of the "working world." Topics will include "masculine" and "feminine" occupations, care work and housework, gender and sexual identity in the workplace, sexual harassment, sex work, labor activism, and the politics of welfare.

GSAS 8181 Culture and Belief 37: The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit
Linda Schlossberg | FAS Fall
A critical investigation of the genre's enduring popularity, beginning with Austen's satirical Northanger Abbey and three novels credited with providing narrative templates for contemporary romances(Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights). We will then read twentieth-century revisions of these works (Rebecca, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bridget Jones's Diary). Topics: the female writer and reader/consumer of literature; moral warnings against romance, "sensation," and titillation; the commodification of desire; Harlequins; the relationship between high culture and low.

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