Fall 2004 / Professor Gretchen Legler

The Women's Studies Program
Introduction to Women's Studies is the foundation course for both the major and the minor in Women's Studies. The major has been designed for flexibility; it's readily combined with majors in other disciplines. Please come see me if you're considering majoring or minoring in Women's Studies.

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"We need to understand and respect each other's differences.... Only in this way can the strengths of diverse women's cultures... be used as an effective challenge that will one day dismantle capitalist and state-socialist racist patriarchies and create the possibility of a world egalitarian order free of racial, gender and sexual discrimination."
--Ann Ferguson, Blood at the Root

Depending on your point of view, Anne Ferguson's call to feminist revolution may be inspiring, or it may seem too radical--or perhaps naive. Whatever position you take on feminist revolution, for our purposes, the most important aspect of her quote is its insistence that we understand and respect differences among women.

Introduction to Women's Studies explores some central issues and questions of interest to feminists, including women's roles at work, in politics, and in their creative lives. Throughout the course, you will be invited to think, speak, act and write critically about women's ideas and experience. We will work toward understanding how various aspects of women's identities, including age, race, class, and sexual orientation interconnect, and how these differences help women position themselves in relation to various forms of feminism.

Introduction to Women's Studies is the foundation course for both the major and the minor in Women's Studies. The major, designed for flexibility, can be combined with majors in other disciplines. Please come see me if you'd like to talk about the major or minor.

Introduction to Women's Studies fulfills a social science General Education requirement and skills requirements in comparative cultures, research, technology, and writing.

Class meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3:15 in Ricker 205

Office Hours: MWF 10-11, TR 3:30-4:30. Please use the signup sheets outside my office door to make appointments. I will also often be available other times and days, so feel free to drop by my office to talk.