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GEN&WS 830

CONTEMPORARY THEORIZING IN GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

3 credits.

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.

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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Interrogate contemporary debates regarding the causes and effects of gender-based experiences and oppression. Audience: Graduate 2. Explore how race, class, and other intersecting hierarchies of power inform these causes and effects. Audience: Graduate 3. Consider whether theorizing about gender and women is not only a scholarly enterprise but also as a professional, activist, and personal one. Audience: Graduate 4. Build the skills and background that enable us to apply these theoretical frameworks and approaches to our own intellectual projects. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Interrogate contemporary debates regarding the causes and effects of gender-based experiences and oppression. Audience: Graduate 2. Explore how race, class, and other intersecting hierarchies of power inform these causes and effects. Audience: Graduate 3. Consider whether theorizing about gender and women is not only a scholarly enterprise but also as a professional, activist, and personal one. Audience: Graduate 4. Build the skills and background that enable us to apply these theoretical frameworks and approaches to our own intellectual projects. Audience: Graduate

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