Courses: Session II

WGST 120 - Introduction to Women’s Studies

Nancy Marshall , Adjunct Associate Professor
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies with an emphasis on an understanding of the common differences that both unite and divide women. Beginning with an examination of how womanhood has been represented in myths, ads, and popular culture, the course explores how gender inequalities have been both explained and critiqued. The cultural meaning given to gender as it intersects with race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality will be studied. Consideration will be given to one of the central dilemmas of contemporary feminist thinking:the necessity to make gender both matter and not matter at the same time.

Lectures: T,W,TH 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Location: Pendleton East 351

Credit 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)
Tuition $2,150
Registration Fee:$50

Nancy L. Marshall is a senior research scientist and an associate director at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. A member of the WCW research staff since 1985, Dr. Marshall also teaches courses in the social construction of gender, gender and the workplace and the sociology of childhood. Her current research interests include family, child care, schools and communities as contexts for children's lives; social class, race-ethnicity and culture as social locations; gender and employment; carework; working conditions in the service industries; and work/family issues. Dr. Marshall received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1973, with a concentration in child development. She earned an M.A. in human development and family relations from the University of Connecticut in 1976. She received an Ed.D. in comparative human development from Harvard University in 1984. Dr. Marshall is co-editor of the volume, Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home (University of California Press, 2001). She is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters addressing child care and children's development in context, work/family issues and working conditions and health. Dr. Marshall's work has been supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, the National Institute on Aging, the State of Massachusetts, the Sloan Foundation, the Pew Foundation, and other funders.

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