Harvard finally gets its act together on gender studies

It had offered a mere 76 courses. Now with addition of "Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece" and 29 others, the curriculum is at last worthy.
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It had offered a mere 76 courses. Now with addition of "Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece" and 29 others, the curriculum is at last worthy.

I was pleased to see that Harvard has updated its curriculum. Under former President Larry Summers, Harvard neglected feminist and women's studies. Fortunately, under Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard has added 30 new courses this year in these disciplines:

  1. Modern Japanese Women Writers
  2. Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece
  3. Women's Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  4. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Theorizing Activism, Or How to Change the World
  5. Race, Gender, Class and Ethnicity the Early Films of Spike Lee
  6. Women, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
  7. Readings in Gender History
  8. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Cinema and Alternative Sexualities
  9. Great Women of Archaeology
  10. Gender and Population Change in East Asia
  11. Gender, Medicine and Care
  12. English: Early Women Writers
  13. Women, Gender and Sexuality: From Queer to Queer — History of Same Sex Love and Eroticism in the United States
  14. Theories of Sexual Coercion
  15. Women and Religion
  16. The Female Body in Islam: Religious Doctrines in Changing Societies
  17. African Women Storytellers
  18. Women and Work in the US, 19th Century to Present
  19. Food, Culture, and Gender
  20. The Psychology of Girls and Women over the Life Span
  21. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Intimacy and Violence
  22. Our Mothers, Ourselves: A Brief History of Postwar American Feminist thought
  23. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Queer Theory
  24. Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and U.S. Latino Culture
  25. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Cinema Alternative Sexualities
  26. Postcolonial Women's Writing
  27. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Intersections of Identity in African American Communities
  28. Myths of Motherhood
  29. Transsexualtiy, Transgenderism, and the Rest
  30. Women, Gender and Sexuality: Ethics and Social Policy

These courses are welcome and much needed additions. Under Summers, sometimes called a male chauvinist, students interested in feminist and women's studies were limited to only 76 courses:

  1. Gaelic Women's Poetry
  2. Slavic Women/Poets
  3. Social Studies: Feminist Theories
  4. Writing Women: Language, Culture, and Difference in 20th-Century Spanish Narrative
  5. Introduction to Women's Studies in Religion
  6. Colloquium in Religion, Gender, and Culture
  7. Themes in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview
  8. Religion, Gender, Identity: Readings in Arab and Muslim Autobiography: Seminar
  9. The Behavioral Biology of Women
  10. Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century
  11. Motherland: Gender, Indigeneity, and the American Environment
  12. Family, Sex, and Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
  13. Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa
  14. Caribbean Women Writers
  15. Women, Work, and the Family: Present and Past
  16. Representations of Women in Chinese Literature
  17. Women Writers in Imperial China: How to Escape from the Feminine Voice
  18. Sex and Gender in Victorian Literature
  19. Warriors, Monks, and Courtesans: Class and Gender Perspectives on Premodern Japan
  20. Rethinking Min-Qing Women's Literature
  21. Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature
  22. Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment
  23. Visual Culture of Latina and African-American Women
  24. Women and Politics
  25. Sex Differences in Humans
  26. Evolution of Human Sex Differences
  27. The Behavioral Biology of Women
  28. Gender, Politics, and Markets
  29. Sex, Gender, and Political Theory
  30. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
  31. Men, Women, and Marriage in the 20th Century US
  32. Gender and Japanese History
  33. Body Sculpting in Modern America
  34. Sex and Empire
  35. Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa
  36. Feminist Theory and Historiography
  37. Representing Women in History
  38. Theories of Gender and Sexuality
  39. The Spirit's Voices: Holy Women in Medieval Christianity
  40. Language and Gender
  41. Psychology of Sex and Gender
  42. Women, Religion, and Theory
  43. Gospel Stories of Women
  44. Feminist Biblical Interpretation
  45. Feminist Theologies: Contexts and Methods
  46. Black Women and Religious Narrative
  47. The Religious History of American Women
  48. Women and Religion in Contemporary America
  49. Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female
  50. Issues in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview
  51. French Feminist Literary Criticisms
  52. 20th Century Women Writing in French
  53. Sex and Gender in Spanish America
  54. Feminist Theory: Equality, Identity, Difference
  55. Gender Stratification: Work, Power, and Gender in America
  56. Gender and Social Policy: The US in Comparative Perspective
  57. Gender Stratification: Career and Family in Women's and Men's Lives
  58. Women and Science: Sociological Aspects
  59. Gender, Colonialism, and Nationalism
  60. Women's Writing and Film in Latin America and the Caribbean
  61. Women Writing the South Asian Diaspora
  62. Feminism and Masculinity
  63. Women's Writing and Film in Latin America and the Caribbean
  64. Feminist Theory: Conference Course
  65. Dreams of a Common Language: Feminist Conversations Across Difference
  66. The Gender Mystique: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Fifty Years of Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  67. I Like Ike, But I Love Lucy: Women, Popular Culture, and the 1950's
  68. Thinking Race and Gender: Black Women and Philosophy
  69. Theories of Sexuality
  70. Gender and Health
  71. Making Sex, Bodies, and Seeds: Technologies of Reproduction in Bioscience, Medicine, and the Media
  72. Liquid Assets and Water Wars: Gender and the Global Crisis
  73. Tomboys, Angels, and Dolls: Girls in American Culture
  74. Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Melodrama, Camp, and Beyond: Pedro Almodóvar in Cinematic Context
  75. Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Bodies and Boundaries
  76. Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Borders and Betrayals: Engendering Cultural Identities
  

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