Gen&WS 315: Gender, Race, and Colonialism
Investigates how gender and race were socially constructed in cultural encounters between Europeans and "other" peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
File: GWS315Fall2011Ipsen.pdfInvestigates how gender and race were socially constructed in cultural encounters between Europeans and "other" peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
File: GWS315Fall2011Ipsen.pdfInvestigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies related to gender, women and society.
File: 320_Phelps_Food-for-Thought_Spring-2022.pdfUses an interdisciplinary framework to examine the key assumptions, debates, and silences in contemporary black feminist thought.
File: GWS-333_2020_Spring_Lindsay.pdfTopics in feminist study of LGBTQ sexualities, considering race, nationality, and time.
File: 340_Waggoner_GEN-WS-Queer-Locations-Syllabus-Spring-2022.pdfThis 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.pdfWhat 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.pdfThis course will focus on how visionary and speculative fiction serve as a compliment to social justice activism. Students will have the opportunity to read, respond to, and produce visionary and speculative fiction.
File: GWS-359-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdfExamines the social, cultural, political, and symbolic constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability.
File: GenWS-370_GenDisSex_Schalk_Fall-2020.pdfInterdisciplinary analysis of the films about disability, stigmatized bodies, and their gendered constructions using feminist and disability studies methods.
File: GWS371Fall2016Loutensock.pdfExplores 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