Explores topics in gender and visual culture, including artistic practice, political and creative expression, and cultural phenomena.
File: GenWS-410_Campbell_Feminist-Art-Visual-Culture_Fall-2022_Syllabus.pdf
Legal system, laws, and proposed legislation that have specific impact on the lives of women. Topics investigated in both the social and legal contexts.
File: GWS-422_2018_Spring_Charleston.pdf
Explores the social, cultural, and political construction of the female/feminine body. Considers specifically the bodies of women and girls, transgender women, non-binary people that embody the feminine, female masculinities, and bodies that identify and are identified as female, as bodies that have historically and traditionally been sites of political contention, of societal meaning making, of cultural symbolism, and active resistance.
File: GenWS-423_Phelps_Syllabus-Spring-2023.pdf
Examines the relationship between dominant images of women and men and their self-images, as they emerge in expressive culture in various societies.
File: Gender-and-Expressive-Culture-Syllabus-2019-Final.docx
Explores the intertwined relationship between gender and politics in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Situates the region's historical, socio-political, and cultural context that have particularly contributed to shaping the current discourse on gender in the Arab World. Explores - both theoretically and empirically - the role of Arab women in influencing the political processes across the Middle East.
File: GWS_435_F_2023-Syllabus.pdf
Contemporary theoretical positions and debates about feminisms in the humanities and social sciences. Enroll Info: 3 credits of GEN&WS and sophomore standing.
File: GWS-441_2019_Fall_Lindsay.pdf
Explores a broad range of contemporary theories concerned with bodies and power. Intersections with gender, race, class, dis / ability, sexuality and nation.
File: GWS-445_2018_Fall_Samuels.pdf
An examination of the emergent theoretical field of queer of color critique, a mode of analysis grounded in the struggles and world-making of LGBTQ people of color.
File: GWS_446-Honors_Spring-2023.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
Major texts by Asian American women writers.
File: syll-464-sp-20-1.pdf