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Investigates how gender and race were socially constructed in cultural encounters between Europeans and "other" peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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

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

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

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.

Investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies related to gender and literature. Topic differs each semester.

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

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

Explores topics in gender and visual culture, including artistic practice, political and creative expression, and cultural phenomena.