GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability

4 credits (Fall Term 1)

This course surveys queer and feminist perspectives on disability, mainly in the U.S. context, including major developments in disability history as well as contemporary issues and scholarly debates. Following scholarship, this course frames “disability” broadly, understood to encompass not just conditions of physical impairment, but a wide range of bodily, cognitive, sensory, emotional, and behavioral differences and capacities. The class emphasizes intersectional perspectives, centering how disability is constituted through regimes of race, capital, and empire.

Prerequisite: GWS 111 and GWS 249.
Instructor: Lewis