Exploring Women's Lives: An Introduction

An introduction to naming and analyzing women's life experiences. Students will explore topics relevant to women's everyday lives such as body image, work, and family, to develop a critical awareness of what limits and expands experiences, locally and globally, yesterday and today. This course considers how gender is constructed across age, class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. It pulls from a variety of disciplines and uses a popular education approach to shed light on issues and strategies for change.

WMST 1116 and 1216 can be taken in any order.