WGSS - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courses

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WGSS 1 Intersections
WGSS 2 Introduction to Queer Studies
WGSS 3 Global Race x Global Migration
WGSS 7 First-Year Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 10 Sex, Gender, and Society
WGSS 12 Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods
WGSS 15 Roots of Feminisms: Texts and Contexts
WGSS 16 Contemporary Issues in Feminism: Theory and Practice
WGSS 18 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
WGSS 20.02 #MeToo: Intersectionality, Hashtag Activism, and Our Lives
WGSS 20.03 Introduction to the Study of Race, Migration, and Sexuality
WGSS 21.01 Slaves, Wives, & Concubines: Did Roman Women Have a History?
WGSS 22.01 Gender and European Society from Antiquity to the Reformation
WGSS 23.01 Gender and Power in American History
WGSS 23.02 American Women in the Twentieth Century
WGSS 24.01 Arab Feminisms
WGSS 24.02 Gender and The Modern Middle East and North Africa
WGSS 26.02 Women and American Radicalism Left and Right
WGSS 26.03 History of Sexuality
WGSS 30.01 Women, Gender and Development
WGSS 30.04 Women, Work, and Wealth
WGSS 30.05 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor
WGSS 30.06 Women and Poverty in the United States
WGSS 31.01 Sex and the State in Latin America
WGSS 31.04 Women and Politics
WGSS 32.03 The Constitutional Rights of Women
WGSS 33.01 Constructing Black Womanhood
WGSS 33.03 Gender and Judaism
WGSS 33.05 Unstalling the Stalled Revolution: Gender (In)equality at Work and at Home
WGSS 33.07 Love, Romance, Intimacy and Dating
WGSS 34.02 Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
WGSS 34.04 Sociology of Gender
WGSS 36.01 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
WGSS 36.06 Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
WGSS 37.03 Social Justice and the City
WGSS 37.04 Carceral Geographies: Explaining Mass Incarceration in the US
WGSS 37.06 Women in Asian Cities
WGSS 40.01 Gender Topics in Native American Life
WGSS 40.02 10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter
WGSS 40.03 Racial Justice
WGSS 40.04 Black Women's Activism, 1970-present
WGSS 40.05 Feminist and Queer Performance at the Limit of Action
WGSS 40.06 Race and Memory: Feminist and Queer Performance Against Disavowal
WGSS 41.04 Muslim Feminism
WGSS 41.06 Transnational Feminisms
WGSS 42.05 Ethnography of Violence
WGSS 43.02 Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity
WGSS 43.03 Women and the Bible
WGSS 43.04 Goddesses of India
WGSS 43.06 Gender in Islam
WGSS 44.03 Women, Religion and Social Change in Africa
WGSS 44.07 The Struggle for Liberation: Women, Monasticism, and Buddhism
WGSS 46.01 Philosophy and Gender
WGSS 47.03 Modern American Women Poets
WGSS 48.08 Desire and Difference in 19th Century British Fiction
WGSS 48.09 Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
WGSS 49.06 Women and War in Modern Literature and Film
WGSS 51.07 Memoirs and the Work They Do
WGSS 51.09 Young Adult Literature
WGSS 51.10 Narratives of Un-belonging: Bad Asians, Queer Texts
WGSS 52.04 Arts Against Empire: Fictions of Revolution and Solidarity in the Americas
WGSS 52.05 Women, Representation, Power: Writing India, Then and Now
WGSS 52.06 Black Queer & Trans Futures: An Experiment
WGSS 53.05 The Poetry and Rhetoric of Love, from Petrarch to Social Media
WGSS 53.07 Language, Gender & Sexuality
WGSS 56.03 Family Matters: Pedro Almodovar, Gender Reversals, and New Communities
WGSS 57.01 Data and Bodies
WGSS 58.05 Women in Art
WGSS 59.04 Race, Gender, and Performance
WGSS 61.06 Feminist Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics
WGSS 62.02 A Global History of Sexual Science
WGSS 62.04 Women and the Making of Science
WGSS 65.04 Queer Visual Culture
WGSS 65.06 Radical Sexuality: Of Color, Wildness, and Fabulosity
WGSS 65.07 Queer Popular Culture
WGSS 66 Special Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 66.01 Times of Crisis
WGSS 66.02 Social Justice and Computing
WGSS 66.03 Transnational Migration: Critical Ethnic, Indigenous and Queer Crossings
WGSS 66.04 Introduction to Black Feminist Thought
WGSS 66.05 Telling Stories for Social Change
WGSS 66.06 Bodies and Technologies in Asian American Popular Cultures
WGSS 66.07 African Diaspora Women Writers
WGSS 66.08 Self, Subject, Photography
WGSS 66.09 Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms
WGSS 66.11 Black Elegies
WGSS 66.12 Gender, Performance, & Healing
WGSS 66.13 Gender and Jewish-German Culture
WGSS 66.14 Gender and Family Issues in Modern Economies
WGSS 66.15 Feminist and Queer Africa on Stage & Screen
WGSS 66.16 Transnational Feminist Sociology
WGSS 66.17 Labors of Love: Mothering in Chicanx/Latinx and Asian American Communities
WGSS 66.18 Hybrid Literatures, Hybrid Selves: Asian American and Asian Diasporic Productions
WGSS 66.19 Eroticism, Love and Sensuality in Hispanic Film
WGSS 66.20 Early Modern Literature and the History of Sexuality
WGSS 66.21 Sex and Gender in Modern Europe
WGSS 66.22 Feminist and Queer Video Art: "I’m asking – does it exist? What is it? Whom is it for?"
WGSS 66.23 A Legacy of Tenderness:" Black Women's Creative Archive
WGSS 66.24 Modern Jewish American Women Writers
WGSS 66.25 Disability Arts and Activism
WGSS 66.26 Migration, Gender and Health in Latinx Communities
WGSS 66.27 Disability and Madness in African American Literature and Film
WGSS 67.01 Freud: Psychoanalysis, Jews, and Gender (in English)
WGSS 67.02 Modern Sex: Weimar Republic Germany 1918-1933
WGSS 67.04 Humanities and Human Rights: Thoughts on Community
WGSS 67.05 Feminist Theory
WGSS 80 Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 85 Independent Study
WGSS 96 Advanced Research in Gender Studies
WGSS 98 Honors Thesis I
WGSS 99 Honors Thesis II