LGBTQIA+ people experience disparities in both access to and appropriateness of healthcare. Sub-groups within the “LGBTQ+ community” have particular health concerns and needs that are often not well-addressed by current healthcare systems. In recent years, transgender and gender non-conforming people have additionally faced legislative attacks on their access to care. All of these problems may be further exacerbated by other forms of marginalization based in race, ability, class, etc., and they may also shed light on broader issues in healthcare for the general population. This course begins with a general exploration of LGBTQIA+ marginalization and medicalization, their effects on healthcare research, access, and outcomes, and the scope and role of patient autonomy, and then applies these concepts to a number of specific issues in LGBTQIA+ health such as differences of sex development or intersex, violence, mental illness, and disability, sexual health and fertility, and aging.
File: Gathman-GWS-538-SPR-2024-syllabus-FINAL.pdf
The physical, social, and emotional work of pregnancy, birth, and parenting is heavily gendered in the United States and elsewhere. Although not all pregnant, birthing, or parenting people are women, this work is frequently feminized and devalued in various ways linked to gender within patriarchal and androcentric social institutions. Within the matrix of domination, other identity categories also shape the experiences of parents, children, and families; for example, disabled parents, queer parents, and parents of color are also affected by ableism, hetero/cisnormativity, and white supremacy. In this course, we will cover a broad array of topics related to the ways in which pregnancy, birth, and parenting are socially understood, constructed, and controlled in the United States today.
File: GWS-539-FALL-2024-Gathman-Syllabus-FINAL.pdf
Examination in depth of specific topics in the area of gender and health. Exploration of relevant health issues in social, economic, and cultural contexts, including public health and policy, and how they relate to gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class.
File: GenWS-539_Senderowicz_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
Explores central assumptions, questions, and debates regarding the relationship between feminist theory, pro-feminist theory, and the practice and performance of multiple masculinities.
File: GWS-546_2020_Spring_Lindsay.pdf
The aim of this course is to critically examine important issues, questions, and debates regarding intersectionality or the notion that race, gender, sexuality, and other terrains of difference are mutually constructing. GWS 547 is interdisciplinary in its approach. Course materials include texts, films, and other multimedia resources drawn from an array of disciplines including gender and women’s studies, sociology, critical race theory, history, political theory, and cultural studies.
File: GenWS-547_Spring-2025_Syllabus.pdf
The aim of this course is to critically examine important issues, questions, and debates regarding intersectionality or the notion that race, gender, and sexuality, and other terrains of difference gain meaning from each other.
File: GenWS-547_Lindsay_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
Capstone for LGBTQ+ Studies certificate; culminates certificate work through advanced interdisciplinary readings, analysis and discussion in LGBTQ+ Studies and completion of a research project.
File: GenWS-642_QueerTheory_Casid_Spring-2021.pdf
The internship program is designed to provide students with opportunities for learning and working in organizations in ways that connect their coursework in Gender and Women's Studies and/or LGBTQ+ Studies to specific issues in community settings.
File: GenWS-660_Spring-2025_Syllabus.pdf
Advanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.
File: GenWS-720-002_Shalaby_Gender-and-Islam_Fall-2022_Syllabus.pdf
This seminar will explore both the emergence of and recent work within the field of feminist disability studies. As an interdisciplinary field, feminist disability studies uses the critical lenses of feminist theory and disability studies to interrogate bodyminds norms at the intersections of (dis)ability and gender as well as race and sexuality.
File: GWS-737-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdf