WMST 450: Current Topics in Women and Gender Studies

WMST 450-001: Gender, Sexuality, Disability
(Fall 2016)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

West Building 1007

Section Information for Fall 2016

This course will offer an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist and queer disability studies. Topics and issues we will address during the course of the semester include the social construction of disability as it pertains to questions of gender, sexuality, race, and class; representations of disability in literature and film; disability, embodiment, and reproductive rights; queerness and disability; the concept of “passing” and invisible disabilities: asexuality and disability; and rhetorics of disability in the U.S. academy. We will pay particularly close attention to the ways in which theories of dis/ability and compulsory able-bodiedness intersect with other interdisciplinary areas of thought, including feminist and queer theories, critical race theory, and theories of transnationalism and globalization. In doing so, our primary goal will be to use feminist and queer theories of disability and compulsory able-bodiedness both as a basis for understanding social inequalities, and as a way of developing forms of resistance to those inequalities.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1-3

Studies selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Includes topics such as women and violence, women and international development, women's myth and ritual, LGBTQ topics, the history and politics of sexuality, disability, transnational issues and religion. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 18 credits.
Specialized Designation: Mason Impact., Topic Varies
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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