Core Courses

  • An Historical-Cultural Introduction: The history of women, gender, and women's status over the last 500 years
  • A Sociological Introduction: Society, ideology, and politics of women's movements and the feminist revolution
  • Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Theories: The history of feminist theoretical thought, discourse, and theories
  • Feminist Aesthetics: A view of art appreciation and art history from the perspective of feminist theories and philosophy

Elective Courses and Seminars

  • From the Madonna to Madonna: A Narrative of the Woman's Body
  • British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century
  • Sex, Sexuality, and Communication
  • Women in the Eyes of Eighteenth Century Men
  • The Construction of the Sephardic Women: Theories and Texts
  • Language and Power: Women at the Center
  • The Personal Story: The Woman's Voice in Jewish and General Folklore
  • Feminist Theory in Law
  • Women, Nature, and Other Creatures
  • Freud -- The Questions that Women Ask
  • The History of Women and Gender from 1500-2000
  • Motherhood in an Equal Society
  • The Woman as a Philosophical Question in Middle Ages Philosophy
  • Human Rights in Israel -- The Political Influence on Legislation and Law
  • Women, Religion, and Law
  • The Anthropology of the Aged
  • Gender, Family, and Law
  • The Social Aspects of Medicine, Gender, and Fertility
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Society
  • The Palestinian Society in Israel
  • The Army, the State, and Gender
  • Women in the Press
  • Psychological Theories on the Development of Women
  • Women from a Multicultural Perspective
  • Fellini's Women
  • Feminism and the Theatre
  • Intro to Israeli Cinema
  • Tel-Aviv: A Man's City? Urban Spaces in Israeli Literature and Cinema
  • Male and Female Initiation Rites in the Bible
  • "A Helpmate to Man" -- The Female Voice of G-d in the Bible
  • The News and the Closet: The Power of the Press in the Empowerment of the Gay and Lesbian Identity
  • Justice, Equality, and Affirmative Action
  • Gender and Sex in the Kabbalah
  • Women in the Service of the Nation: Nationalism, Women, and Politics in the Middle East
  • Women in the Arab and Moslem World
  • Men and Women in the Middle East and in the USSR
  • Tradition and Change in Africa: Women in Moslem Cultures
  • Jewish Women in Christian Italy in the Early New Era
  • Food, Drink, Men, and Women -- The Early Israelites
  • Women and War
  • Women's Narratives in the Bible




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