Intermediate/Advanced Courses

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

Examination of theories and research on the psychology of women and gender. Explores topics such as sex bias in psychological research; psychological aspects of female sexuality and reproduction; gender-based violence; female achievement and power; lifestyle choices of women; women and mental health; and psychological research with transgender individuals.

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. Students will learn a variety of ways to think critically and creatively about the politics of bodily experience, including how those politics have shaped their own embodied lives.

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

Uses an interdisciplinary framework to examine the key assumptions, debates, and silences in contemporary black feminist thought.

Investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies related to gender, women and society.