Intermediate/Advanced Courses

This 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.

This 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.

Women as patients and as health professionals in America from the colonial period to the present.

A 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.

Interdisciplinary analysis of the films about disability, stigmatized bodies, and their gendered constructions using feminist and disability studies methods.

Examines the social, cultural, political, and symbolic constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability.

This course centralizes the intersection of LGBTQ identities and dis/ability through various queer bodies which are also inflected by race, class, geographical and national locations. Approaches may include critical theory about queer bodies and personal narratives.

Topics in feminist study of LGBTQ sexualities, considering race, nationality, and time.