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Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota promotes scholarship that pushes established boundaries while providing a rich and rigorous undergraduate and graduate education that asks students to view the worlds around them with a curious, yet, critical lens.

The department offers an undergraduate major and minor in GWSS, an undergraduate minor in GLBT Studies, a PhD program in Feminist Studies, and a graduate minor in Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies.

What's New in GWSS?

Welcome New Graduate Students

The Department welcomes the arrival of our 2011 graduate students Amanda Kessner, Jayne Swift, and Shan Ye.

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

The GWSS would like to congratulate Dr. Papori Bora on the completion of her doctorate degree! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

Events

2011-2012 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series

The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies is pleased to invite you to join us for our exciting 2011-2012 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series. We look forward to seeing you! View the complete Colloquium schedule (PDF)

Talk by Cindy Garcia, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance: "Dancing Salsa Wrong: Pausing on Latinidad in Los Angeles."

Los Angeles is both the global hub of salsa dance practices and the site of escalating anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican violences. García argues that dancers (and those who desire to dance) negotiate these violences socially in local, translocal, and global salsa spaces.

Dr. Cindy García is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her forthcoming book Dancing Salsa "Wrong": Pausing on Latinidad in Los Angeles (Duke University Press) addresses the politics of gendered performances of Mexican-ness, latinidad, and U.S. citizenship in Los Angeles salsa clubs.

Event schedule: https://events.umn.edu/016644

 

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