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.pdfAn 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.pdfThis course explores several theoretical lenses, disciplinary approaches, and substantive topical areas relating to reproductive and sexual health.
File: GenWS_534_Senderowicz_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdfExplores a broad range of contemporary theories concerned with bodies and power. Intersections with gender, race, class, dis / ability, sexuality and nation.
File: GWS-445_2018_Fall_Samuels.pdfThe aim of this course is to critically examine important issues, questions, and debates regarding intersectionality or the notion that race, gender, and sexuality, and other terrains of difference gain meaning from each other.
File: GenWS-547_Lindsay_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdfThis course will take a human rights approach to global women's health to provide an overview of health issues within the context of a woman's life cycle. It will pay special attention to the socio-cultural and economic factors that play a role in determining women's access to quality basic health care.
File: GenWS-535_Alonso_Fall2022_Syllabus.pdfThis course demonstrates that human bodies have social and cultural histories. It will highlight the social values placed on different bodies, the changing social expectations bodies create, and the role of science and medicine in creating the cultural meanings of bodies.
File: GWS532Spring2013Houck-1.pdfWomen as patients and as health professionals in America from the colonial period to the present.
File: Women-and-Health-2019.pdfExamination of theories and research on the psychology of women and gender.
File: GenWS-522_Hyde_Fall-2021.pdfA history of sexuality approach to a period of major social, economic, and political change in US history, 1880-1930; medical, legal, and popular discourses shaping urbanization, reform, nationalism and colonialism.
File: HIS519Fall2013Enke.pdf