Spring 2021 - GSWS 319 D200

Special Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (4)

Warrior Women

Class Number: 8444

Delivery Method: Remote

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 11 – Apr 16, 2021: Tue, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    30 units including three units in GSWS or WS or GDST.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A specific theme within the field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant.

COURSE DETAILS:

How have women been pictured in literature, history, theatre and film with regards to their role, their involvement and contribution to a cause, or a struggle? What are the continuities and discontinuities in their depictions during wartime, in different historical, cultural and social contexts? How have women’s identities and ideologies been presented? This course examines the above questions, while offering an overview of the obstacles, the challenges, the victories and defeats of women as they negotiate different identities, political hierarchies and systems in their quests for peace, recognition and equality. The course begins by presenting portrayals of women from the city-states of ancient Greece, and then proceeds by comparing and contrasting the evolution of causes and depictions of individuals and collectives in different states, leading up to present day legacies of 20th c. wars; women in the army and the new opportunities and challenges they face.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: http://www.sfu.ca/gsws/undergraduate/courses/Educational_Goals.html

Grading

  • Participation: 14%
  • Term Project: 15%
  • Presentation: 15%
  • Take Home: 26%
  • Term Paper: 30%

NOTES:

SYNCHRONOUS and/or ASYNCHRONOUS CLASS SCHEDULING

Tuesday 13:30-17:20, with synchronous component taking place 13:30 - 15:00 (using Zoom)

Office Hours: After class or by appointment (using Bb Collaborate Ultra)

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Kent, Kingsley Susan. Gender and History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Available online: https://www.redshelf.com/search/?terms=gender+and+history

Additional readings available online, through the SFU Library.


RECOMMENDED READING:

Campbell, Lara. Myers, Tamara. Perry, Adele. eds. Rethinking Canada: the promise of women’s history. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Junker, Klaus. Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Mayor, Adrienne. The Amazons: lives & legends of warrior women across the ancient world. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.

Morley, Neville. Antiquity and Modernity. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2009.

Hall, Edith. The Theatrical cast of Athens: interactions between ancient Greek Drama and society. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 

Aleksievich, Svetlana. The Unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II. New York: Random House, 2017.

 


Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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TEACHING AT SFU IN SPRING 2021

Teaching at SFU in spring 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods. There will be in-person course components in a few exceptional cases where this is fundamental to the educational goals of the course. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).