Its primary goal is to provide a forum for students to consider the history of sexuality and race in the U.S.
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary feminist study of sexuality. WGSS 286 – History of Sexuality and Race in the U.S. Additionally, we will explore how knowledge about health is created how environmental conditions, social location, politics, and economic conditions affect health how various groups have fought for changes to health care practices and delivery and how experiences of health and illness have been reported and represented. We will also consider why and how definitions and standards of health have changed over time why and how standards and adjudications of health vary according to gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality and how definitions of health affect the way we value certain bodies and ways of living. In Feminist Health Politics, we will examine how health becomes defined, and will question whether health and disease are objectively measured conditions or subjective states. What is health? What makes health a matter of feminism? And what might a feminist health politics look like? These questions lay at the heart of this course. Readings include a range of queer, feminist and women thinkers from around the world, reflecting diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives in the field. Areas of focus may include queer and trans studies feminist literatures and cultures feminist science studies reproductive politics gender, labor and feminist economics, environmental and climate justice the politics of desire, and others. What are “gender,” “sexuality,” “race,” and “class?” How are gender categories, in particular, constructed differently across social groups, nations, and historical periods? What are the connections between gender and socio-political categories such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, (dis)ability and others? How do power structures such as sexism, racism, heterosexism, and classism and others intersect? How can an understanding of gender and power enable us to act as agents of individual and social change? Emphasizing inquiry in transnational feminisms, critical race feminisms, and sexuality studies, this course examines gender within a broad nexus of identity categories, social positions, and power structures. An interdisciplinary field grounded in commitment to both intellectual rigor and individual and social transformation, WGSS asks fundamental questions about the conceptual and material conditions of our lives. WGSS 201 – Gender and Difference: Critical AnalysesĪn introduction to the vibrant field of women, gender, and sexuality studies, this course familiarizes students with the basic concepts in the field and draws connections to the world in which we live. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression have shaped and influenced the historical, cultural, social, political, and economical contexts of our lives, and the social movements at the local, national and transnational levels which have led to key transformations. Throughout the course, students will explore how experiences of gender and sexuality intersect with other social constructs of difference, including race/ethnicity, class, and age. Drawing on disciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies, students will engage critically with issues such as gender inequities, sexuality, families, work, media images, queer issues, masculinity, reproductive rights, and history. This course offers an introduction to some of the basic concepts and theoretical perspectives in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. For questions, contact Karen Lederer, Chief Undergrad Advisor. For those of you that will need the distribution requirements: sexuality studies, critical race feminisms, transnational feminisms.
Attention Majors and Minors - requirements have changed! Students who enter the major or minor Fall 2020 or after are under new requirements.
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