Gender and the Body What is your gender and how do you know? In order to answer this question, we need to consider how gender is known through biology, psychology, consumer capitalism, and our everyday embodiment.  We will also look at how the meaning and performance of gender have changed over time from Classical Greece to Victorian England to the contemporary U.S.  Throughout, we will consider how gender does not operate along, but is always entangled with, race, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability.

Gender, War, and Migration How are war, peace, and "the enemy” gendered and racialized? How do war and conflict impact and complicate belonging and influence the movement of people across borders and boundaries? In this course students will examine and develop a deep understanding of the dynamics of war and its aftermath through a complex intersectional lens of gender, race, sexuality, class, religion, and nation. We will examine U.S. wars and transnational conflicts from a multidisciplinary perspective to better understand how and why conflicts occur and wars are waged across time and place.

Feminist Engaged Research What makes research feminist? How does one conduct feminist research? How has feminist research been useful to social movements and how have movements informed feminist research? What happens to feminist research when it moves to the public sphere? In this class students learn how to produce original feminist research—how to craft research questions, write a literature review, choose relevant methodologies, and collect and analyze qualitative data. In addition to writing a research paper, students will translate their research findings into an alternative (non-academic paper) format and for an audience beyond our classroom. (Minimum of 3 GSFS classes. Class intended for GSFS majors and minors and students in the IGS Gender Track.) 3 hrs. Sem.

Bahia Munem

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I love Professor Munem!! She's so knowledgeable and passionate about this subject. Definitely not a difficult course, but not a course that you should take without an interest in the subject. This is my first GSFS course and I loved it. Homework consists of 20-30 (on average) page readings for each class and a weekly discussion post. We had a couple essays and then a final project.