03/20/2026
Here are the courses that the Women and Gender Studies Department will be offering this Summer, 2026!
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A compilation of five slides.
The first slide is a light pink square with dark pink and beige streamers weaving throughout the top and bottom of the screen. Below the decorations is the text "Summer 2026" below that is "Women & Gender Studies Courses" with the George Mason logo underneath. Under the logo is the WGST website "https://wmst.gmu.edu/"
The second slide has a light orange background with the mason logo in black on the top left corner. On the right side in orange is the text "Global Representations of Women". Under that text on the right is a box containing the text "Summer 2026, WMST 100-A0,1. Prof. Rachel Lewis [email protected], Online Asynchronous". To the left of the text box are five different women facing each other.
The third slide is a pink background with black and white images of hands, a megaphone, and a rose scattered throughout. The top of the slide has the text "Summer 2026, WMST 200-001" below that is the course title "Introduction to Women & Gender Studies and Prof. Rachel Lewis [email protected], Online Asynchronous."
The fourth slide is an orange background with yellow-orange flowers scattered throughout. The very top of the slide says "Summer 2026. WMST WMST 450-CO1, WMST 550-CO1, PHIL 429/ PHIL 694 " below that text is the course title "Current Topics in Women & Gender Studies: Bodies & Power" and underneath that is the class details, "Online Synchronous, T/TH: 5:00-9:30" it will be taught by Claudia Cabello-Hutt, contact her at [email protected].
The fifth slide is another light orange background. It is titled "Topics in WGST: Bodies & Power" and it has a course description of: "This interdisciplinary course invites students to critically investigate the materiality of the body and its entanglement with power through the study of philosophy, theory, literature, performance art, and film from the late nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on nuanced representations of historically marginalized bodies—including women, indigenous peoples, enslaved individuals, and q***r subjects—while considering how these portrayals both challenge and reinforce dominant cultural narratives. Through the lenses of postmodernist philosophy, feminist and q***r theory, literature, performance, and film studies, students will analyze the complex intersections of corporeality, subjectivity, identity, and power.
In addition to engaging with a diverse selection of literary works and films from Latin America and the United States, students will study foundational texts by key theorists who examine the relationship between the body, culture, s*xuality, politics, and power. Students are encouraged to bring in their own research interests and creative projects that expand and complicate our understanding of embodiment and power."
