WGS 100 - Introduction to Women’s Studies.

(Formerly 200).(3)S/US.

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.May be used to satisfy general education or BA distribution requirements, but not both.