J219 MINI: Gender, Justice and Journalism (5 Weeks)

This class will start on April 5. Class dates are 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, and 5/3.

This is a class that will explore intersectionalities of gender topics, particularly as they relate to journalism. It will be taught by Deidre English, a co-founder of one of the first women’s studies programs in the United States.

English’s work includes For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’s Advice to Women, a book co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich and published with a new Afterword in 2004 (Anchor/Doubleday). Her work also includes Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, and Complaints and Disorders: the Sexual Politics of Sickness.

Fuller course description forthcoming.