SWAG 210 - Women’s Lives in Myth and Reality

In this course, students explore women’s past and present circumstances primarily, but not exclusively, in this culture and envision future possibilities and alternatives. Students analyze issues of gender in relation to class and race as they work toward a feminist framework for understanding the world and their place in it. The course explores some classic theories of why gender bifurcation and asymmetry exist, and the images of ideal masculinity and femininity are traced through their appearances in such pertinent and affecting aspects of life as family, sexuality, education, work, and politics. As students come to recognize the limitations imposed on the lives of all people by restricted notions of traditional images and stereotypes, they examine the possibility of alternatives. (Y)

Prerequisites & Notes
24100
1030 to 1245. July 14 to August 11 MTWRF; Sarah Whitney

Credits: 3