GWS1000 — Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
GWS 1000 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies GWS 1000 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies 3 Credits Explores the discipline’s theoretical tenets and the synthesis of academic and activist feminism within Gender & Woman’s Studies. Examines the multiple purposes and constructions of gender as both a lived identity and ideal, focusing on intersectional understandings of self and systems of power and domination. Major Content Areas History of feminism as a US social movement and the relationship between feminist scholarship and activism History and intersections between feminist scholarship and scholarship in related fields of cultural studies, with an emphasis on queer theories and activism Paradigms for understanding power and domination (intersectionality and the matrix of domination) and how these operate locally and globally Physical integrity, including reproduction and sexual violence Learning