GWSS 290 A
Special Topics in Women Studies: Body Politics
SLN 15160 (MyPlan)
This course is an introduction to foundational concepts in feminist inquiry by focusing on the socio-historical positionality of the body in terms of gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability. The course examines systemic power through which bodies are politicized and regulated. We further explore resistance and counternarrative embodied by groups and peoples historically and contemporarily held furthest from justice. How is something so intimate as the body shaped by political, economic, scientific, cultural, and community norms as well as resistance to normative politics? Through varied methodologies, this class examines how bodies are made through cultural systems and structures (e.g., media, medicine).
GWSS 490 A
Special Topics in Women Studies: Queering CRT
SLN 15177 (MyPlan)
Instructor video intro to course (Instagram)
This course grad/undergrad-level course explores intersectionality via contemporary (2020-2023) cultural battles over Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender in schools, healthcare, the family, and in state and local government. Race and gender co-create one another, they are not static; rather, social, cultural, and political mechanisms constantly construct, reinforce, and perpetuate them. Students delve into race and gender as ever-moving political processes queering the debates surrounding CRT and gender, disrupting the fictitious distance between the two. Queerly we ask, how do racism and cissexism continue to shape the U.S. sociopolitical landscape?