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GWSS 230: Feminism and Democracy in Transnational Perspective
Cricket Keating | M/W 1:30-3:20 | Location TBA
Explores feminist approaches to democratic theory and practice. Examines the following questions from a transnational perspective: What are feminist critiques of the gendered and racialized marginalization and subordination that often mark democratic politics? How do feminists from across the globe analyze issues such as citizenship, participation, and justice? What are models of more egalitarian polities and how might they be fostered?
GWSS 241: Hip Hop and Indie Rock
Michelle Habell-Pallán | T/TH 3:30-5:20 | MGH 389
This course introduces you to popular music studies through the practice of archive building, critical thinking and writing and digital scholarship. Throughout the quarter, we will explore popular music as a site of history, power, social change, and memory. In our readings and discussions, we will engage criticism that draws upon alternative archives to tell the story of popular music in innovative ways and reflect on our own musical archives. We ask how race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, region, and identity fit into the stories we tell about particular genres of music. To grapple with these questions, we will situate punk, hip hop, pop and other music genres within a range of sonic and performance influences such as blues, gospel, estilo bravío, punk, country, son jarocho, and disco. We will also explore global musical influences on these genres. (via Yasmine, SUM 2024)
GWSS 272: Intro to Gender and Fandom
Regina Yung Lee | M/W 10:30-12:20 | CDH 110A
This course looks at media fandoms online, and how they reflect and explore gender, race, and sexuality in domestic and transnational contexts.
GWSS 302: Feminist Theories and Methods
Amanda Swarr | T/TH 1:30-3:20 | HRC 145
Explores tools for conducting research, using feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist frameworks. Focus on qualitative research methods includes ethnographic interviews, discourse and visual analyses, radical archival research. Students craft viable research questions; identify and access relevant resources; and plan, organize, and write complex and nuanced research proposals. Course equivalent to: T WOMN 302. Prerequisite: either GWSS 200 or GWSS 206/PHIL 206/POL S 212. Offered: W.
GWSS 345: Women and International Economic Development
Priti Ramamurthy | T/TH 3:30-5:20 | SIG 134
In 2023, when Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexual Law, the World Bank suspended funds to fight high poverty rates. Gone, too, was the money to lower high maternal mortality rates. When it buys sugar, a US soda company provides much needed work and income to rural women in India. To be super producers, they bring their kids to help harvest sugar cane and undergo hysterectomies. Are you interested in untangling these messy relationships between gender, sexuality, and international economic development? We’ll do so in this course. We’ll ask how feminists- scholars and organizations- are transforming ideas and structures which lead to the inequitable distribution of resources, well-being, and opportunity. We’ll meet practitioners from development organizations, based in Seattle, who work on land rights, education, credit, health, and sustainable development for girls, women, and non-binary people in the global South. Through research, you’ll have a chance to ask what governments and feminists in specific places are doing to end gender and sexual discrimination, how successful they are, and why.
GWSS 360: Social Reproduction Theory and Radical Politics of Care
Jey Saung | T/TH 10:30-12:20 | CDH 115
Develops critical understandings of the current neoliberal conditions shaping social reproduction and care including the many ways everyday life and slow death are sustained by intersecting systems of power and changing relations between and within the Global North and South.
GWSS 445: Feminist Science (Fiction) Studies
Regina Yung Lee | M/W 1:30-3:20 | CDH 110B
This course addresses science fictional narratives to trouble and transform the human, the inhumane, the scientific apparatus, and the natural world. Students examine gender, race, sexuality, and ability, alongside relevant scientific documents and feminist theory, to better understand both science and fiction through feminist lenses.
GWSS 454: Women, Words, Music and Change
Michelle Habell-Pallán | M/W 3:30-5:20 | GLD 436
Comparative analysis of use of myths, tales, music, and other forms of expressive culture to account for, reinforce, and change women's status and roles.
GWSS 464: Queer Desires
Amanda Swarr | T/TH 3:30-5:20 | SMI 309
Explores desire and the politics of sexuality as gendered, raced, classed, and transnational processes. Intimacies and globalization, normality and abnormality, and power and relationships are sites of inquiry into the constitution of "queerness." Students interrogate queer and sexuality studies, using varied media - films, activist writings, and scholarly articles.
GWSS 490: Gendered Objects
Christina Yuen Zi Chung | M/W 3:30-5:20 | THO 134
Objects are laden with power relations and personal meaning, but we often overlook our relationships with them and the functions they perform in different scales and contexts. Using a transnational and intersectional framework and integrating perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, art history, museology, and cultural studies, this course guides students in a wide-ranging and innovative exploration of our relationship with objects. Open to students from all disciplines and particularly relevant to those interested in curatorial work, archival work, and/or research that focuses on material culture.