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Sophomore level

Classical Mythology GSS 212 (fa26)

  • The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Poems of Hesiod by R.M. Frazer
  • Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
  • Apollodorus’ Library & Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Smith & Trzaskoma
  • The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

The Modern Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Power GSS 269 (fa26)

  • The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom & the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
  • Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Gore et al.
  • Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights & Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Queer Becomings GSS 279 (fa26)

  • The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example by Roger N. Lancaster
  • Gay Fathers, Their Children & the Making of Kinship by Aaron Goodfellow
  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance & Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey

The Makeover GSS 292 (fa26)

  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
  • Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
  • Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng

Girls & Dolls GSS 294 (fa26)

  • The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright
  • What Maisie Knew by Henry James
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
  • Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
  • Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng

Gender, Sexuality & Migration GSS 297 (fa26)

  • Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara
  • Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family & Illegality among Transnational Mexicans by Deborah A. Boehm
  • High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor & Transmigration by Amy Bhatt
  • The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
  • The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration & Citizenship, 1870-1965 by Martha Gardner

Junior level

Women, Gender & the Body in Islamic Societies GSS 328 (fa26)

  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
  • Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

Gender & Performing Arts in South Asia GSS 335 (fa26)

  • The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition by Daniel M. Neuman
  • Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory & Modernity in South India by Davesh Soneji
  • Heart to Heart: Remembering Nainaji by Vidya Rao
  • Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion by Anna Morcom
  • Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza Muhammad Hadi Rusva

Graduate level

Gender in a Global Society GSS 507 (fa26)

  • Caliban & the Witch: Women, the Body & Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
  • The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality & Capitalism by Isabelle Guérin
  • Patriarchy & Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour by Maria Mies
  • Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood
  • Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation by Juno Salazar Parreñas
  • Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration & Sex Trafficking in Tokyo by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

Contemporary Critical Theories: Marx’s Capital GSS 535 (fa26)

  • Capital, v.1 by Karl Marx

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