Teaching

University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO), Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWST), Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWST) 100: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Power. Cross-cultural and historical antecedents to gender studies and feminist thought. The social construction of knowledge and inequality through gender, race, sexuality, and class; the cultural and structural forces that create the dynamic for change and resistance in the personal and political realms of gendered lives.

GWST 200: Critical Foundations: Feminism and Difference. History of feminist engagements with race, class, nation, and sexuality within an intersectional framework and in the wake of critiques of feminism’s exclusivity.

GWST 272: Feminism and Environment. Feminist theories and practice to understand and address environmental change. Role of decolonial, antiracist, disability justice and queer feminist perspectives in environmental justice, policy, art, and activism.

GWST 300: Critical Sexuality Studies. Overview of the historical emergence of critical sexuality studies. Sexological, psychoanalytic, Foucauldian, feminist, and queer theories of sexuality and gender will be examined.