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
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
Major texts by Asian American women writers.
File: syll-464-sp-20-1.pdf
Examination in depth of specific topics in the area of gender and health. Exploration of relevant health issues in social, economic, and cultural contexts, including public health and policy, and how they relate to gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class.
File: GenWS-539_Senderowicz_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
Situates sexual health education in historical and contemporary context by tracing its discursive production and envisioning a queering of both content and practice. An examination of what might it mean to queer sex education and what would a queer sex education look like. Utilizing theoretical interventions from critical education studies, queer theory, and trans/gender studies, this course.
File: GWS-536_2020_Spring_Barcelos.pdf
Contemporary theoretical positions and debates about feminisms in the humanities and social sciences. Enroll Info: 3 credits of GEN&WS and sophomore standing.
File: GWS-441_2019_Fall_Lindsay.pdf
Examines the relationship between dominant images of women and men and their self-images, as they emerge in expressive culture in various societies.
File: Gender-and-Expressive-Culture-Syllabus-2019-Final.docx
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