WGS 200 - Intro to Women’s Studies

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Introduction to the field of women’s studies and to scholarly and other writing about women’s lives and gender as a social structure and process. Examination of the feminist reconstruction of knowledge; differences among women based upon race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation; cultural representation of women; divisions of labor based upon gender and race; politics of women’s personal lives; women’s activism. Focus upon women in the U.S.