Explores the intertwined relationship between gender and politics in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Situates the region's historical, socio-political, and cultural context that have particularly contributed to shaping the current discourse on gender in the Arab World. Explores - both theoretically and empirically - the role of Arab women in influencing the political processes across the Middle East.
File: GWS_435_F_2023-Syllabus.pdf
Explores gender identity and sexuality among disabled people using historical and theoretical articles to discuss and analyze films, memoirs, and poetry by people with disabilities. Provides a brief introduction to disability studies and intersectionality before delving into academic discussions and artistic representations of the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality.
File: GenWS-374_Schalk_Fall-2021.pdf
Connected to the Open House Learning Community in Phillips Hall, this course focuses on LBGTQ+ life in Madison, Wisconsin.
File: GenWS-100_Locally-Queer_Schalk_Fall-2021.pdf
Explores the social, cultural, and political construction of the female/feminine body. Considers specifically the bodies of women and girls, transgender women, non-binary people that embody the feminine, female masculinities, and bodies that identify and are identified as female, as bodies that have historically and traditionally been sites of political contention, of societal meaning making, of cultural symbolism, and active resistance.
File: GenWS-423_Phelps_Syllabus-Spring-2023.pdf
Explores central assumptions, questions, and debates regarding the relationship between feminist theory, pro-feminist theory, and the practice and performance of multiple masculinities.
File: GWS-546_2020_Spring_Lindsay.pdf
Advanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.
File: GenWS-720-002_Shalaby_Gender-and-Islam_Fall-2022_Syllabus.pdf
What happens to the bodymind kept in waiting? This course pursues questions of the “in- between” through the lenses of health and disability justice. Considering the concept of “patient,” with connotations of compliance and medicalization, students will explore how race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship impact how long one waits for care.
File: Waggoner_350_Lit-and-Gender-Waiting-Room-Syllabus_Fall-2023.pdf
Using a reproductive justice framework, analyze contexts, experiences, practices, ideologies, and historiographies of childbirth in the United States from roughly the 17th century to the present, with the heaviest emphasis on the 20th and 21st century.
File: GWS-537_Spring_2019_Menzel.pdf
An examination of the emergent theoretical field of queer of color critique, a mode of analysis grounded in the struggles and world-making of LGBTQ people of color.
File: GWS_446-Honors_Spring-2023.pdf
This course explores several theoretical lenses, disciplinary approaches, and substantive topical areas relating to reproductive and sexual health.
File: GenWS_534_Senderowicz_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf