Spring 2027

Contemporary Theorizing in Gender and Women's Studies

Examines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women, including intersectional power hierarchies and transnational perspectives.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Keisha Lindsay3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Interrogate contemporary debates regarding the causes and effects of gender-based experiences and oppression.

  • Explore how race, class, and other intersecting hierarchies of power inform these causes and effects.

  • Consider whether theorizing about gender and women is not only a scholarly enterprise but also as a professional, activist, and personal one.

  • Build the skills and background that enable us to apply these theoretical frameworks and approaches to our own intellectual projects.

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GEN&WS 830

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KEISHA LINDSAY is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Gender-based oppression
  • Intersectionality of gender, race, and sexuality
  • Transnational gender theorizing
  • Theorizing as activism

Skills

  • Applying theoretical frameworks and approaches to intellectual projects.
  • Cultivating distinct gender and women studies' methods.

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GEN&WS 830 · Spring 2027

Contemporary Theorizing in Gender and Women's Studies

Recorded 2026-10-14
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