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.
File: GenWS-535_Alonso_Fall2022_Syllabus.pdf
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.
File: GWS532Spring2013Houck-1.pdf
Women as patients and as health professionals in America from the colonial period to the present.
File: Women-and-Health-2019.pdf
Examination of theories and research on the psychology of women and gender.
File: GenWS-522_Hyde_Fall-2021.pdf
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.
File: HIS519Fall2013Enke.pdf
Where have we come from and where are we going? Designed to take us on a journey and tell stories of knowledge building over time, we will explore feminist theories from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives.
File: GenWS-449_Phelps_Syllabus_Spring-2023-2.pdf
Interdisciplinary analysis of the films about disability, stigmatized bodies, and their gendered constructions using feminist and disability studies methods.
File: GWS371Fall2016Loutensock.pdf
Examines the social, cultural, political, and symbolic constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability.
File: GenWS-370_GenDisSex_Schalk_Fall-2020.pdf
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.
File: GWS343Fall2017Samuels.pdf
Topics in feminist study of LGBTQ sexualities, considering race, nationality, and time.
File: 340_Waggoner_GEN-WS-Queer-Locations-Syllabus-Spring-2022.pdf