WMST 300: Current Issues in Women and Gender Studies

WMST 300-008: Gender/Sexuality/International Migration
(Fall 2015)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

Johnson Center 240A

Section Information for Fall 2015

During the past decade, there has been a substantial growth of academic scholarship across the humanities and social sciences devoted to exploring the intersections among gender, sexuality, and international migration. This course will take interdisciplinary literature in feminist and queer migration studies as its primary point of departure in order to think more about the ways in which gender and sexuality structure contemporary processes of immigration and border-crossing. During the course of the semester, we will examine a variety of texts—cultural, socio-legal and historical—across a range of disciplines, including women’s and gender studies, queer studies, political science, history, sociology, law, anthropology, theater and performance studies, and ethnic studies, to name but a few. Specific issues we will address during the course of the semester include the following: the history of U.S. immigration controls in relation to questions of race, class, gender and sexuality; the contested relationship between refugee law and international human rights law, particularly in the context of women’s and LGBTQ claims for asylum; child migration and human rights; sex work, trafficking and migration; and feminist and queer anti-deportation activism.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1-6

Study of selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Topics vary but include subjects such as women and violence, women and international development, women's myth and ritual, LGBTQ topics, the history and politics of sexuality, psychoanalysis, and religion. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. Offered by Women & Gender Studies. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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