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FEATURED COURSE: WGS 3281, Globalization and Policy Making. Taught by Jamie Shenton, Lecturer, WGS. Click for more information.
Oct. 29, 2015—WGS 3281: Globalization and Policy Making Taught by Jamie Shenton, Lecturer, WGS. Globalization refers to the increasing interconnection of social, economic, political, and culture life. This course explores the relationship between gender, the political economy of globalization, and policymaking (or lack thereof) through a cross-cultural lens. What happens when we go global with our examination...
FEATURED COURSE: WGS 2613, Compulsory Couplehood. Taught by Melanie Adley, Sr. Lecturer and Associate Director WGS. Click for more information.
Oct. 29, 2015—WGS 2613: Compulsory Couplehood Taught by Melanie Adley, Sr. Lecturer and Associate Director WGS. From the nineteenth century to the present. Legal and societal implications of marriage. Marginalization of the single person. Different gendered stereotypes of the uncoupled adult, including the bachelor and the spinster. Non-normative forms of kinship and relationships. Primarily United States with...
Gender & Sexuality Seminar featuring research by Jamie Shenton (WGS), Friday, October 30, 3-4:30 pm, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Oct. 8, 2015—Gender & Sexualities, a seminar hosted by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities This seminar provides an interdisciplinary forum for the development of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. The seminar examines how gender and sexuality shape human experience within and across cultures, in different time periods, and as part of social practice....
“ME NOT,” a solo exhibition by Catherine Forester, Monday, October 26, 5:30-7:30, The Rymer Gallery, 233 5th Ave N, Nashville, TN
Oct. 7, 2015—“ME NOT” explores femininity beyond the biological and includes a series of drawings, videos, digital paintings, and the community outreach event (BYOC). “ME NOT” also examines gender fluidity, violence against women (cis and trans), the transition from childhood to womanhood (with a girlhood and in its absence), and resistance to cultural constructs of womanhood. Hosted...