Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courses

For a complete list of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) courses, please visit the UConn Catalog website.

Academic Year 2025-2026

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courses WGSS 3257W

3257W. Feminist Disability Studies

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to juniors or higher; sophomores by consent of instructor. Recommended preparation: any 1000 or 2000-level WGSS course.

Grading Basis: Graded

Social, historical, cultural, and political constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability. Through a wide variety of texts and cultural examples, exploration of how disability is gendered, gender is disabled, and both are interwoven by race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, and subcultures.