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 2024-2025

5661. Feminist Approaches to Disability, Illness, and Care

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

An examination of care and caregiving across different threads of feminist scholarship in sociology, science and technology studies (STS), and disability studies. Key topics include how care is raced and gendered, disability as an axis of inequality, and how approaches to care have evolved, particularly in feminist disability studies/disability justice.