GWST 3000 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
A survey of the foundational figures, themes, and texts in the history of gender and women’s studies in an interdisciplinary and global context. Themes to be addressed include sameness vs. difference feminisms; the sex/gender distinction; internal and external critiques of Western feminisms; transnational and global feminisms; feminism’s relationship to critical race studies, postcolonialism, queer theory; and gender, trans-gender, and masculinity studies.