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.docxExplores 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.pdfContemporary 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.pdfExplores 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.pdfThis course is a mode of critical inquiry that emerges from intersecting theorizations of race, gender, sexuality, nation, class, and other sites of lived experience. While queer theory and activism have previously faced charges of insufficiently reckoning with race, activism and scholarship that take up race as their primary focus have a similar history of presumed heteronormativity. Queer of color critique, a term often credited to Roderick Ferguson, resists this divide and centers the intellectual traditions of queer thinkers of color to interrogate the mutual constitution of race, gender, and sexualities.
File: GenWS_446_SP25_Syllabus_Cannell.pdfDescribing hope, Rebecca Solnit has written, “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.” Grounded in feminist and queer theory and scholarship from the environmental humanities, this course examines the frailties, challenges, and promises of hope in trying times. Drawing on the insights of scholars and activists, including adrienne maree brown, Kyle Powys Whyte, and Francesca Polletta, we will examine how ideas and practices of hope—and its inverses—shape projects for collective world-making in the present and the future.
File: GWS-449-Hope-in-Theory-Practice-Spring-2026.pdfWhere 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-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdfIn this session of Gender & Women's Studies 449, we will address feminist theories of “uncertainty, doubt,” and “skepticism,” alongside theoretical and cultural texts which take that uncertainty as a site of radical “political imagination” and possibility. By examining work from queer and feminist theorists including Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Barbara Johnson, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, Jennifer Nash, Sara Ahmed, Marquis Bey, Jasbir Puar, and more, we will identify new forms for reckoning with uncertainty as we navigate activist pasts and imagine new feminist futures.
File: GenWS-449-003_Uncertainty_Fall-2024_Cannell.pdfMajor texts by Asian American women writers.
File: syll-464-sp-20-1.pdfApproaches human relationships with food from micro to macro levels. Considers personal and interpersonal relationships with food, examining the social, cultural, and political meanings of food at various intersections of identity (gender, race, class, ability, age, etc.), and within different institutions such as family, education, and religion. Asks questions about personal/individual responsibility in relation to food, and the role of communities, municipalities, governments, and global entities in determining what people eat and how. Explores the gendered, raced, and classed politics of food systems; questions of sovereignty, sustainability, access, regulation, dissemination, and policy making. Examines the cultural, ecological, and economic implications of the ways food is perceived, produced, and consumed across cultures. From rural development to major agribusiness, from land conservation to the politics of globalization, from local food systems to global food justice, we take a global approach to understanding how food is produced, by whom, the key stakeholders involved, and who benefits and who suffers in these arrangements of how food gets from a source to a stomach.
File: GenWS-472-Food-for-Thought-Syllabus-Spring-2026-.pdf