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Women's Studies (WOMENST)
Professor Khanna (English), Director; Professor Wiegman; Associate Professors Hasso, Rudy, Weeks, and Wilson;
Assistant Professor Lamm; Affiliated faculty: Professors Allison (cultural anthropology), Brody (African and
African American Studies), Fulkerson (divinity), Holloway (English), Koonz (history), Nelson (cultural
anthropology), Piot (cultural anthropology), Silverblatt (cultural anthropology), and Wald (English); Associate
Professors Holland (English), Lubiano (African and African American Studies), Mottahedeh (literature) and Olcott
(history); Assistant Professors Rojas (Asian and Middle Eastern studies) and Stein (cultural anthropology); Adjunct
faculty: Associate Professor Curtain (University of North Carolina) and Assistant Professor Gokariksel (University
of North Carolina)
A major and a minor is available in this program.
Women’s Studies is part of a historical educational enterprise inaugurated by social movement and dedicated to
the study of identity as a complex social phenomenon. In the field’s first decades, feminist scholarship reoriented
traditional disciplines toward the study of women and gender and developed new methodologies and critical
vocabularies that have made interdisciplinarity a key feature of Women’s Studies as an autonomous field. Today,
scholars continue to explore the meaning and impact of identity as a primary – though by no means transhistorical or
universal – way of organizing social life by pursuing an intersectional analysis of gender, race, sexuality, class, and
nationality. In the classroom, as in its research, its goal is to transform the university’s organization of knowledge by
reaching across the epistemological and methodological divisions of historical, political, economic, representational,
technological and scientific analysis. In the program’s dual emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, it
offers students new knowledge about identity while equipping them with a wide range of analytical and
methodological skills.
The courses listed below are offered by Women’s Studies or by other academic departments and programs. For
a more detailed description of each course, contact the Women’s Studies office or the appropriate department or
program office.
Women's Studies Core Courses (WOMENST)
89S. First Year Seminar in Gender Studies. SS New concepts and themes in gender and feminist studies. Topics
may vary each semester. Instructor: Staff. One course.
101. Gender and Everyday Life. CCI, SS Introduction to the way Women's Studies as an interdisciplinary field
studies gender in its complex intersection with race, class, and sexuality. The sex/gender distinction; biological
determinism, ideology, commodity culture, essentialism and social construction; the sexual division of labor;
colonization and post coloniality, imperialism, racialization; and heteronormativity. Instructor: Staff. One course.
190A. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Women's Studies. CCI Topics differ by section.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
190FS. Special Topics in Focus. Seminar for students in Focus Program only. Topics vary each semester offered.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
199S. Thinking Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Theory. CCI, SS Introduction to foundational concepts in
feminist thought on sex and gender. Survey of core concepts in the field of Women's Studies and introduction to the
fundamental debates within the history of feminist thinking. Instructor: Staff. One course.
202S. Introduction to Study of Sexualities (DS4). CZ One course. C-L: see Study of Sexualities 199S
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208. The French Love Story. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see French 361
209S. Muslim Women Across the Ages. CCI, CZ, SS, W One course. C-L: see History 225S; also C-L:
International Comparative Studies 365S, Islamic Studies
210S. Gender and Digital Culture. ALP, STS, W One course. C-L: see Information Science and Information
Studies 340S; also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 286S
211. Seventeenth-century Fictions of Women. ALP, CCI, FL One course. C-L: see French 338
212. Gender in Dance and Theatre. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Dance 368; also C-L: Theater Studies
236, International Comparative Studies 215, Study of Sexualities
214. Contemporary Israeli Cinema. ALP, CCI, EI One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 241;
also C-L: Arts of the Moving Image 257, Literature 217, Jewish Studies 241
215. Cyborgs. CCI, SS, STS, W One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 213
217. Gender and Culture. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 271; also C-L: International
Comparative Studies 203, Study of Sexualities
218S. Daily Life in Antiquity. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Classical Studies 268S
220. Girl Culture, Media, and Japan. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 465;
also C-L: Literature 223
221. Women at Work: Gendered Experience of Corporate Life. CCI, SS, STS Analysis of gender, class and
race in contemporary business organizations and roles of men and women within them. Management systems,
information technology and human resource systems, as artifacts to larger, gendered environment. Instructor:
Reeves. One course. C-L: Sociology 331
222. Philosophical Issues in Feminism. CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Philosophy 222
222S. Philosophical Issues in Feminism. One course. C-L: see Philosophy 222S
225. Women and the Political Process (C-N). R, SS A systematic analysis of the U.S. political system, electoral
politics, platform implications, and leadership trends in the context of women's role in political life, as voters,
leaders, and citizens. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Political Science 236
227. Women in Film. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: Arts of the Moving Image 216, Literature 219, Study of
Sexualities 225
230. Women in the Economy. CCI, EI, R, SS One course. C-L: see Economics 348
231S. Vampire Chronicles: Fantasies of Vampirism in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. ALP, CCI One course. CL: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 413S; also C-L: International Comparative Studies 406S, Study of
Sexualities 231S, Arts of the Moving Image 217S
232. Gender and Language (DS4). CCI, R, SS One course. C-L: see Russian 364; also C-L: Cultural
Anthropology 232, International Comparative Studies 207, Linguistics 364
233. Traffic in Women: Cultural Perspectives on Prostitution in Modern China. ALP, CCI, SS One course. CL: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 333; also C-L: Cultural Anthropology 334, Study of Sexualities 233, Arts of
the Moving Image 270
235S. Clinical Issues for the LGBTQ Community. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Study of Sexualities 235S; also
C-L: Psychology 310S
237. African American Women and History. CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see African and African American
Studies 310; also C-L: History 349
239. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History. CCI, CZ, EI, SS, W One course. C-L: see History 374
241. Gender, Work, and Organizations. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Sociology 229; also C-L: Markets and
Management Studies
245. Gender and Morality: Indian Perspectives. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Religion 272; also C-L:
Ethics Courses Offered Through Other Departments
250. Film and the African Diaspora. ALP, CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies
330; also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 228
252S. Popular Fictions. ALP One course. C-L: see Literature 345S; also C-L: English 375S
260S. The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Russian 383S; also C-L:
Theater Studies 323S
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270. Animals and Ethics: Welfare, Rights, Utilitarianism, and Beyond. CCI, EI, SS Lecture version of Women's
Studies 270S. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies 268
270S. Animals and Ethics: Welfare, Rights, Utilitarianism, and Beyond. CCI, EI, SS The ways humans depend
on animals for a variety of products and information, with questions about the morality of specific uses. The origin
of the contemporary animal rights movement through the lens of ethical theories, Kantianism, rights approaches,
abolition, Peter Singer, and utilitarianism. The role of animal welfare through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
viewed internationally, including comparison of welfare versus rights agendas. Postmodern and feminist alternatives
to existing theories. Animal law and the question of legal standing for animals. Benefits and limits of
environmentalism as a mode of animal advocacy. Instructor: Rudy or Staff. One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies
227S
275. Food, Farming, and Feminism. CCI, EI, SS Viewing "agriculture," "nature," and "consumption" as pressing
feminist themes and exploration of various dimensions of the cultural and political ecology/economy of producing,
processing, circulating, preparing, and consuming sustenance. Particular focus on the ethical impact of US policy on
rural farm communities and developing nations. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Environment 209
275S. Food, Farming, and Feminism. CCI, EI, SS Viewing "agriculture," "nature," and "consumption" as pressing
feminist themes and exploration of various dimensions of the cultural and political ecology/economy of producing,
processing, circulating, preparing, and consuming sustenance. Particular focus on the ethical impact of US policy on
rural farm communities and developing nations. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Environment 209S
276. Global Performance Art: History/Theory from 1950's to Present. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see
Visual and Media Studies 344; also C-L: Information Science and Information Studies 275, Literature 222, Theater
Studies 235
277. Global Art Since 1945. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Art History 281; also C-L: International
Comparative Studies 219, Ethics Courses Offered Through Other Departments
279. Melodrama East and West. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 411; also C-L:
International Comparative Studies 307, Visual and Media Studies 223
280S. Anthropology of Space. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 426S; also C-L: Literature
235S
281S. Travel, Gender, and Power. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 430S; also C-L: Asian &
Middle Eastern Studies 305S
284S. Feminist Classics. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see Literature 465S; also C-L: Philosophy 274S, English
488S
288S. Gender and Sexuality in Africa. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies 311S;
also C-L: Cultural Anthropology 311S
289. Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. CCI, CZ, SS One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 429; also
C-L: International Comparative Studies 326, Latin American Studies, Study of Sexualities
290. Selected Topics in Women's Studies. Topics vary, focusing on interdisciplinary work arising from feminist
scholarship. Instructor: Staff. One course.
290S. Selected Topics in Women's Studies. Seminar version of Women's Studies 290. Instructor: Staff. One
course.
291. Independent Study. Directed reading in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member,
resulting in a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously
approved topic. Consent of instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
293. Research Independent Study. R Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a
faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and
interpretation of a previously approved topic. Open to juniors. Consent of instructor and program director required.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
360S. Feminism in Historical Contexts. CCI, CZ, SS, W Comprehensive introduction to feminist theoretical
conceptions of the social, political, economic, and the human. Explores the rise of gender based discourses and
social movements in the context of broader considerations of modernity, democracy, and liberal humanism and the
value of rights discourse for feminist agendas. Includes a comparative dimension that emphasizes cross cultural and
historical analysis. Instructor: Staff. One course.
361. Money, Sex, Power. CCI, CZ, SS Same as Women's Studies 361S except instruction provided in lecture
format. Instructor: Staff. One course.
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361S. Money, Sex, and Power. CCI, CZ, SS Capitalism as a historical force in its relation to gender and race
structures. The intellectual history provided by Marxist critiques of capital for the development of a distinct body of
feminist materialist thought, including dual systems theory, ideology critique, poststructuralist understandings of
language and culture, and the rise of globalization as the latest economic context in which to think about gender,
material life and power. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Study of Sexualities
362. Gender and Popular Culture. CCI, SS, W Same as Women's Studies 362S except instruction is provided in
lecture format. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Visual and Media Studies 330
362S. Gender and Popular Culture. CCI, SS, W An analytic investigation of ways popular cultural forms produce
and reinforce gender relations. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Visual and Media Studies 331S
363S. Interpreting Bodies: Identity and Beyond. CCI, SS How the body has come to define the human in
language, law, science, politics and economics. The body's relation to identity and subjectivity. The representation
of the body in particular cultural discourses and the social history and dynamic in which that representation has
taken place. Instructor: Staff. One course.
364S. Race, Gender, and Sexuality. CCI, SS Gender's relationship to race and sexuality explored through a variety
of issues, including health, intimacy, family, the state, economic practices, transnational communities and identities,
and social movement. Instructors: Pierce-Baker, Wiegman, Rudy, and staff. One course. C-L: Study of Sexualities
264S, African and African American Studies 242S
365. Gender and Political Theory (C-N). CCI, SS Feminist analyses of and engagements with some of the
canonical texts and traditional concepts of Western political theory. Feminist contributions to, challenges to, and
revisions of the terms of key conceptual and political debates in political theory. Instructor: Weeks. One course. CL: Political Science 229
366S. Nature, Culture, and Gender. CCI, EI, NS, SS Understanding human identity through a consideration of
the human animal boundary, feminist primatology, animal welfare, the great ape project. Do women view nature
differently than men? Ethics of primate research, primate gender roles, human justice and non-human animals,
subjectivity and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, the relationship between gender, nature, and animals, new
formulations of "nature/culture," women and animals. Instructor: Staff. One course.
367. Feminist Ethics. CCI, EI, SS Do women experience the world differently than men? An examination of
women's experience, women's ways of knowing, ethical systems and feminist critique, patriarchy, dualistic thinking,
gender oppression, care ethics, ethical dilemmas. Lecture version of Women's Studies 367S. Instructor: Rudy. One
course. C-L: Study of Ethics 204
367S. Feminist Ethics. CCI, EI, SS Do women experience the world differently than men? An examination of
women's experience, women's ways of knowing, ethical systems and feminist critique, patriarchy, dualistic thinking,
gender oppression, care ethics, ethical dilemmas. Instructor: Rudy. One course. C-L: Study of Ethics 204S
368. Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights. CCI, EI, SS This course investigates gender and sexual dimensions
of human rights, considering key international human rights campaigns and emphasizing the historical and
philosophical contexts involved in advocacy for Women's Human Rights and Sexual Rights. Instructor: Staff. One
course. C-L: Study of Sexualities 268
368S. Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights. CCI, EI, SS This course investigates gender and sexual dimensions
of human rights, considering key international human rights campaigns and emphasizing the historical and
philosophical contexts involved in advocacy for Women's Human Rights and Sexual Rights. May include a servicelearning component. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Study of Sexualities 268S
369S. Transnational Feminism. CCI, EI, R, SS Ethico-political strengths and shortcomings of feminism across
international borders. Philosophical, political, economic, filmic, and literary formulations of international feminism.
Interdisciplinary and multimedia course. Topics include Marxist internationalism and feminism; disciplinary
ethnocentrism; international human rights and women's rights; postcolonial feminism; labor, domesticity, and
migration; and the idea of 'transnationalism'. One course. C-L: International Comparative Studies 208S
370S. Queer Theory. ALP, CCI, SS A seminar designed specifically for advanced study in sexuality and gender.
Contextualizes queer theory as a distinct analytic tradition by paying attention to poststructuralist approaches to
subjectivity, sociality, power, and knowledge. This course also serves as the capstone required for the Certificate in
the program in the study of sexualities. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Study of Sexualities 470S, Literature
475S
371S. Gender, Sexuality, and the Image. ALP, CCI, SS Image and visual culture in the production and
engagement of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Examining the various ways images organize understandings and
experiences of gender, sexuality, and their relations via the methodologies of feminist and queer theory. How
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contemporary feminist art challenges U.S. feminist scholarship working to theorize feminism from within
transnational contexts. Instructor: Lamm. One course. C-L: Study of Sexualities 371S, Visual and Media Studies
371S
385S. Women in the Public Sphere: History, Theory and Practice. CCI, SS, W Why and how women who seek
to practice leadership in public life operate within broad historical and theoretical contexts. Examine how American
women have exercised leadership for social change over the last two centuries. Analyze current debates about
gender and leadership in academic literature and the popular press, and discuss the opportunities and challenges
facing women today. Explore the relationship between theory and practice by applying theory to current-day issues.
This course serves as the preferred gateway course for The Moxie Project: Women and Leadership for Social
Change (DukeEngage - 8 weeks in NYC working with a local or national organization serving women and girls).
Instructor: Seidman. One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies 225S
390. Advanced Topics in Women's Studies. SS Lecture version of Women's Studies 390S. Instructor: Staff. One
course.
390S. Advanced Topics in Women's Studies. Topics vary, focusing on advanced interdisciplinary work arising
from feminist scholarship. Instructor: Staff. One course.
412S. Capstone Seminar: Globalization, Women, and Development. CCI, CZ, R, SS, STS One course. C-L: see
History 419S; also C-L: African and African American Studies 407S, International Comparative Studies 412S
490S. Senior Seminar in Women's Studies. CCI, R, W Advanced research course for majors in Women's Studies.
Topics vary by semester. Students produce a significant research paper. Consent of instructor required. Instructor:
Staff. One course.
493. Honors Independent Study. R Open to students pursuing distinction. Individual research in a field of special
interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report
containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Open to seniors. Consent of
instructor and program director required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
494. Honors Independent Study. R See Women's Studies 493. Open to seniors. Consent of instructor and program
director required. Instructor: Staff. One course.
509S. Race, Class, and Gender: A Social History of Modern (1750-present) Britain. CCI, CZ, EI, SS One
course. C-L: see History 505S; also C-L: African and African American Studies 515S
512S. Film Feminisms. ALP, CCI, CZ One course. C-L: see Literature 611S; also C-L: Arts of the Moving Image
515S. Gender, Identity, and Public Policy. R, SS One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies 530S, Political Science
536S
519S. Topics in Sexuality and Gender Studies. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see Italian 585S
581S. Masculinities. CCI, CZ, R, SS One course. C-L: see Cultural Anthropology 540S
780S. Teaching Race, Teaching Gender. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see African and African American Studies
780S; also C-L: History 780S, Literature 780S
Women's Studies Courses Across Disciplines
The following courses count toward a major or minor when taught by faculty affiliated with Women’s Studies
and/or approved by a Women’s Studies faculty advisor. There are additional courses that count toward the major,
and students should contact the Women's Studies office for a complete list updated each semester.
African and African American Studies
210. History and Modern Africa
211. History of Africa: From Antiquity to Early Modern Times
216. Culture and Politics in the Caribbean
Art History
280. European Art 1900-1945
288. Dada and Surrealism
Arts of the Moving Image
203. Film Theory
Cultural Anthropology
170. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4)
204. Self and Society (P)
250. Muslim World: Transformations and Continuities
271. Gender and Culture
272S. Advertising and Masculinity
English
750. Studies in Renaissance Literature
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French
428. Sexuality and Gender Studies
History
203. History of Africa: From Antiquity to Early Modern Times
204. History and Modern Africa
374. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History
800. Colloquia
International Comparative Studies
170. Muslim World: Transformations and Continuities
203. Gender and Culture
Italian
382. Italian Women Writers
384. European Art 1900-1945
Jewish Studies
140. Judaism
140S. Judaism
271. Women in the Biblical Tradition: Image and Role
Linguistics
170. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4)
Literature
316. Film Theory
360. Women Writers
390-6. Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
655. Early Christian Asceticism
Philosophy
222. Philosophical Issues in Feminism
503S. Contemporary Ethical Theories (C-N)
Political Science
335S. Politics and the Libido (A)
512S. Contemporary Ethical Theories (C-N)
Portuguese
360S. Geographies of the Erotic: Brazilian Literature in Translation
Psychology
220. The Psychology of Gender (P)
224. Self and Society (P)
658S. Seminar in Emotion (D, P)
Public Policy Studies
259S. Women as Leaders
Religion
140. Judaism
140S. Judaism
271. Women in the Biblical Tradition: Image and Role
273. Gender in Religion in the United States
367. Women and Sexuality in the Christian Tradition
380. Muslim World: Transformations and Continuities
634. Early Christian Asceticism
Russian
315. Women and Russian Literature
322S. Women in Contemporary Russian Society
512. Women and Russian Literature
Sociology
211. Wealth, Power, and Inequality
218. Sex, Gender, and Society
349. Sexuality and Society
350. The Changing American Family
355. Organizations and Management
360. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4)
Visual and Media Studies
246. Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4)
298. Film Theory
House Courses. Women’s Studies regularly sponsors house courses. While house courses do not officially
count toward the major or the minor, students are strongly encouraged to consider them as valuable supplements to
full-credit courses. Lists of house courses are available in the program office at the beginning of each semester.
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THE MAJOR
To major in women’s studies, a student must take a minimum of ten courses. Thinking Gender: An Introduction
to Feminist Theory (Women’s Studies 199S) and a senior seminar (Women’s Studies 490S) are required, along with
three of the following:
360S. Feminism in Historical Context
361. Money, Sex, Power
361S. Money, Sex, Power
362. Gender and Popular Culture
362S. Gender and Popular Culture
363S. Interpreting Bodies: Identity and Beyond
364S. Race, Gender, and Sexuality
365. Gender and Political Theory
366S. Nature, Culture and Gender
367S. Feminist Ethics
368S. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
369S. Transnational Feminism
370S. Queer Theory
371S. Gender, Sexuality, and the Image
The remaining five elective courses must be at or above the 200 level and may be chosen from other Women’s
Studies offerings. Students may also petition for credit for courses offered in other departments and programs, with
clear documentation of their intellectual value to the overall goals of the major. Students may take no more than two
independent study courses, which must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Advising
Each year, faculty affiliated with women’s studies serve as advisors for students majoring in women’s studies.
Majors are paired with faculty advisors on the basis of students’ general areas of interest. Students majoring in
women’s studies are encouraged to seek out and work with any of the women’s studies faculty in addition to their
primary faculty advisor.
Departmental Graduation with Distinction
Qualified students earning a major may be eligible for Graduation with Distinction in women’s studies. More
detailed guidelines are available in the program office. Students interested in being considered for distinction should
contact the program office no later than the spring of their junior year.
THE MINOR
For the minor, students complete five courses. Thinking Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Theory (Women’s
Studies 199S) is required, along with two courses from the following:
360S. Feminism in Historical Context
361. Money, Sex, Power
361S. Money, Sex, Power
362. Gender and Popular Culture
362S. Gender and Popular Culture
363S. Interpreting Bodies: Identity and Beyond
364S. Race, Gender, and Sexuality
365. Gender and Political Theory
366S. Nature, Culture and Gender
367S. Feminist Ethics
368S. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
369S. Transnational Feminism
370S. Queer Theory
371S. Gender, Sexuality, and the Image
In addition, students choose two elective courses at or above the 200 level from other Women’s Studies
offerings. Students may also petition for credit for courses offered in other departments and programs, with clear
documentation of their intellectual value to the overall goals of the major. Students may take no more than two
independent study courses, which must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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In addition to offering courses, and a major and minor representing a focus in women’s studies, the program
sponsors lectures, films, discussions, conferences, and work-study opportunities. Additional information on courses,
the women’s studies major or minor, and other opportunities in women’s studies is available at the Women’s Studies
office, 210 East Duke Building, or on the Web site: http://womenstudies.duke.edu.