Catalogue

Gender and Sexuality Studies

gss.bard.edu

Faculty

Robert Weston (director), Susan Aberth, Nicole Caso, Christian Ayne Crouch, Robert J. Culp, Lauren Curtis, Deirdre d’Albertis, Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Helen Epstein, Tabetha Ewing, Jack Ferver, Donna Ford Grover, Sarah Hennies, Kwame Holmes, Elizabeth M. Holt, Pınar Kemerli, Elena Kim, Laura Kunreuther, Cecile E. Kuznitz, Kristin Lane, Michael Martell, Christopher McIntosh, Allison McKim, Emily McLaughlin, Alys Moody, Michelle Murray, Karen Raizen, Michael Sadowski, Sophia Stamatopolou-Robbins, Yuka Suzuki, Kathryn Tabb, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Olga Touloumi, Éric Trudel, Marina van Zuylen

Overview

The Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) concentration embraces the importance of gender as a fundamental category of analysis across disciplines. The concentration seeks to explore how gender and sexuality are intertwined with structures of power and inequality. It is committed to the study of issues specific to women and the LGBT community, with added emphasis on understanding disciplinary models of knowledge. GSS considers masculinity and femininity, sexuality, and transgender issues in relation to other analytical frameworks such as race, class, age, and sexual orientation.

Requirements

GSS is a concentration, not a primary program of study. In consultation with GSS faculty and program advisers, students may declare a concentration in GSS at the time of their Moderation into their primary program or thereafter at a separate Moderation. Students must fulfill the Moderation requirements of both the primary program and the GSS concentration, which requires at least two courses cross-listed with GSS before Moderation. After Moderation students must take at least one advanced gender studies seminar or tutorial taught by GSS faculty. The Senior Project should focus on some issue related to gender and sexuality studies.    

Courses

Course offerings are subject to change. Recent courses include Introduction to Transgender Studies; Transgender Lives: Past, Present, and Future; Queer of Color Critique Queer Subjects; Sociology of Gender; Gender and Deviance; Gender, the State, and Feminist Politics; Transnational Feminism; Women’s Rights, Human Rights; LGBTQ Rights; LGBTQ+ Issues/US Education; Reproductive Health and Human Rights; Feminist Philosophy; Feminist Ethics; Woman as Cyborg; Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement; LGBTQ in Rural and Urban America; Women Writing the Caribbean; Nature, Sex, and Power; Victorian Bodies; Gender and Sexuality in Judaism; Jewish Women and Men: Gender Roles and Cultural Change; Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World; Reading Arab Women Writers in Translation; Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East; Gender Theater; Contemporary Performance and Theater by Women; Topics in Sound Studies: Queer Sound; Gender and Politics in National Security; Women and the Economy; Diverse Voices in Psychology: The Gender Gap and Beyond; Gender in the History of Psychological Disorders; Feminist Resurgence and Decolonization; Queer Theories, Familiar Families; Anthropologies of Men and Gender; Reading Gender in Archive: Research Methodology of Gender History.