Elective

AP/GSWS 3567 6.0 Feminist Life Writing: Theories, Histories, Practices, and Methods

Introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of life writing in multiple genres and media. It foregrounds the important role of autobiographical and biographical representations, both textual and visual, in promoting the development of feminist, anti-racist, decolonizing, and queer thought in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Course credit exclusions: AP/HUMA 4150 6.00. Previously offered as: […]

AP/GWST 3561 3.00 Bad Girls in the Bible Part One: Hebrew

The Bible offers archetypal figures for Western art, music and film as well as literature. This course will analyze women in the New Testament with a focus on sexuality, seduction, murder and mayhem. Note: AP/GWST 3561 3.00 may be taken independently of AP/GWST 3560 3.00. Course credit exclusions: AP/HUMA 3437 3.00 (prior to Fall 2011), […]

AP/GSWS 4509 Anti-Racist Feminism

This course explores the historical context in which anti-racist feminist thought emerged, as well as its central tenets, with a particular focus on the argument that Western societies are constituted through a politics of race which differentially positions women. Course credit exclusions: AP/REI 4509 3.00 (prior to Fall 2013), AP/GL/WMST 4509 3.00 (prior to Fall […]

AP/GWST 3557 3.0 Superstition, Religion and Sexuality

Explores the intersection of religion and superstition from ancient times to the present. Analyzes issues of gender, power and sexuality through the study of goddesses, witches and the current fascination with vampires in popular culture. Note: An introductory course in Gender and Women's Studies is recommended. Previously offered as: AP/WMST 3557 6.00, GL/WMST 3557 6.00, […]

AP/GSWS 3555 6.0 Feminist and Queer Theorizing

What are the big ideas that shape feminist and queer theories? What is the relationship between feminist and queer theories? How do lived experiences of sex, gender, and sexuality intersect with systems of power? This interdisciplinary course examines questions of intersectional desire, affect, identity, politics, power dynamics, subjection, and existential choice. It considers feminist and […]

AP/GSWS 3505 Gender and the City

Examines the relationship between socially constructed gender relations and the changing nature and form of contemporary urban areas. Previously offered as: AP/GWST 3505 3.00, AP/WMST 3505 3.00, GL/WMST 3505 3.00. Crosslisted to GL/GWST 3505

AP/GSWS 2512 6.0 Race, Gender & Sexuality

This course is designed to take a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of power and difference. It specifically focuses on the social and historical construction of race, gender and sexuality, and how these categories inform each other in complex ways. The readings draw on a range of theoretical perspectives and applications in the fields […]

AP/GSWS 4524 6.0 Easy Reads? Feminist Stories, Graphic Narratives, and the Art of Drawing Politics

This course introduces students to the genre of graphic narratives that tell stories about a diverse range of bodies and histories. It explores the conventions and possibilities of the visual-verbal comic medium from an intersectional perspective informed by feminist, queer, post-colonial, affect, critical disability, and anti-oppressive theories.Previously offered as: AP/GWST 4524 6.00 Crosslisted to GL/GWST […]

AP/GWST 4502 6.0 Violence Against Women

Examines gender-based violence in its many forms, such as domestic violence, state violence, legal violence (punishment) and cultural violence (rituals) and analyzes the global context in which gender and power are constructed and violence against women is perpetuated and tolerated. Previously offered as: AP/WMST 4502 6.00, GL/WMST 4502 6.00, AP/GWST 4502 Cr=6.00 EN. Crosslisted to […]

AP/GWST 3560 3.0 Bad Girls in the Bible Part One: Hebrew

The Bible offers archetypal figures for Western art, music and film as well as literature. This course will analyze women in the Hebrew Bible in English (Old Testament) with a focus on sexuality, seduction, murder and mayhem. Note: AP/GWST 3560 3.00 may be taken independently of AP/GWST 3561 3.00. Course credit exclusions: AP/HUMA 3436 3.00 […]