Orients students to key dimensions of scholarly life as well as professional options outside of academia. Explores issues both broad (e.g., professional development) and specific (e.g., obtaining research grants) that are important to those building professional careers with a Gender and Women's Studies Ph.D. Enables students to hear about and learn from individual GWS faculty members’ professional experiences within and beyond the academy.
File: GWS-860-Fall-2024-REV3.pdf
Cultural images by and about Black women; feminine creativity in the arts within their historical, cultural, social, and political contexts.
File: AAS-267-Syllabus-Spring-2022.pdf
Examines both physiological and social processes relating to gender and health across the lifespan among cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals. Examples of topics include hormonal processes, reproductive anatomy & physiology, sexuality, sexual pleasure, chronic illness, depression, and sexual violence. A primary course objective is for students to connect information about their bodies and personal health to larger social and political contexts. In particular, considers how health and health disparities are shaped by multiple kind of social inequalities, particularly inequalities based on gender.
File: GenWS-103-Honors_Ward_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
Explores various aspects of identity politics and body politics such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and citizenship status as they relate to and intersect with body size and constructions of fatness. Situates how fatness has been conceptualized over time, the formation of the gendered body ideals, and the proliferation of obesity rhetoric.
File: GenWS-523-Spring-2025-Syllabus.pdf
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-Spring-2025-Syllabus-Final.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