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Fall & Spring semesters, September 4, 2012 – May 7, 2013
This workshop will provide intellectual and practical guidance for students at any stage in the dissertation process. Class sessions will be structured with four primary goals: to address challenges in the conception and completion of a dissertation; to explore the methodological and theoretical issues attendant on discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist research; more »
Fall semester, September 6, 2012 - December 6, 2012
This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry across a range of disciplines. Doing feminist research involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions and methodologies, developing new understandings of what counts as knowledge, seeking alternative ways of understanding the origins of problems... more »
Spring semester, January 30, 2013 - May 8, 2013
Motherhood is often lauded as the most important job, and Americans regularly talk about valuing family. However, as it tends to be women who are primarily responsible for caregiving in the family, the work is systematically devalued economically, socially, and legally. The gendered nature of mothering also has a profound influence on... more »
Spring semester, January 29, 2013 - May 7, 2013
This advanced reading seminar will engage students in analyzing the intersections of gender and poverty in the United States, and will explore commonly experienced dilemmas faced by those who study low-income America, Economic inequality and economic stressors other than poverty... more »
Spring semester, January 31, 2013 - May 9, 2013
Science and Technology are relatively insulated from wider public deliberation -- art and literary criticism are familiar, but not "science criticism." Yet there is a large body of social interpretation of science and technology, to which feminist, anti-racist, and other critical analysts and activists have made significant contributions... more »
The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 14N-211
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Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-324-2085
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