Feb 22, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

GSS 101 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies


Instructor
Gonzalez

This class provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the analytical tools, key scholarly debates, history, and research subfields of gender and sexuality studies. It pays particular attention to the construction and deployment of gender as a cultural category across various social institutions. Students will learn to assess and analyze documents pertaining to the history of and contemporary state of feminisms and women’s rights, masculinity, queer theory, disability studies, body image and consumer culture, intersectionality, as well as a host of gendered questions related to health, work, the family, violence, and politics.


Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.