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CONTEMPORARY THEORIZING IN GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

GEN&WS 830
Course Description

Examines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women including what constitutes "good" gender and women studies' theorizing, how to recognize gender-based oppression when we see it, how gender, race, sexuality, and other hierarchies of power intersect, as well as the merits of transnational theorizing about gender and women. Explores whether gender and women's studies' theorizing is a form of activism, how to teach theory in gender and women's studies' classrooms, the value of cultivating distinct gender and women studies' methods, and other dimensions of putting gender and women's studies' theorizing into practice.

Prerequisites

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
4

6.67% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

5.88% from Historical

A Rate
100%

12.5% from Historical

Class Size
13

8.33% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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