GWS 4240Gender and Violence

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Prerequisites: WMS 1001 or GWS 1200 or GWS 1550 or SOC 1010 or CJC 1010 or PSC 1020 or Permission of Instructor Crosslisting: SOC 4240, CJC 4240, PSC 4240 Students analyze key patterns and structures of gender and sexual violence, with a special focus on the diverse experiences of women, queers and gender-variant people. Students draw from disciplines such as queer/trans theory and transnational feminism to illuminate iterations of and resistance to gender-based violence, including how ‘safety’ and ‘precarity’ are distributed unevenly across groups due to various social formations. Topics in this course include sexual violence, interpersonal violence, family violence, trafficking, state violence (including carceral, medical and military violence), among others. Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: WMS or CJC or SOC or PSC