Faculty Development Groups

Facilitated by Dominic Wetzel (Behavioral Sciences)

The Women's, Sexuality and Gender Studies Reading Group is devoted to continuing scholarly and pedagogical discussions within the field of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies. We will analyze structures of power and dimensions of difference by focusing on gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, religion, ability, and age, both in and out the classroom.

Learning Goals/Outcomes:

Engage with and/or become more familiar with the field of gender and sexuality studies.

Read and/or re-read crucial founding and emerging texts in the field.

Think through how changing norms around gender and sexuality are relevant for ourselves, our students and society, and how we might help integrate these insights and concepts in useful ways in our classrooms

Readings (Will be shared through email or Contact Dominic or KCTL):

Lisa Duggan’s Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed 

Samuel R. Delaney’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 

Herbert Marcuse’s An Essay on Liberation

Meeting Schedule:

Thursday, April 16, 12-1 (mtg 1) Mean Girl (Zoom)

Thursday, April 16, 1-2 (mtg 2) Mean Girl (Zoom)

Thursday, May 7, 12-1 (mtg 3) Times Square Red/Blue (Zoom)

Thursday, May 7, 1-2, (mtg 4) Times Square Red/Blue (Zoom)

Thursday, May 28, 12-1 (mtg 5) Essay on Liberation (Hybrid: Zoom/Meeting in Prospect Park-weather permitting)

Thursday, May 28, 1-2 (mtg 6) Essay on Liberation (Hybrid: Zoom/Meeting in Prospect Park-weather permitting)

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/86926192991?pwd=VTNOZ2Z2V29NQjg0TGFQbnUvbDFRUT09#success

 

About the facilitators Professor Dominic Wetzel

Professor Wetzel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kingsborough, where he teaches the Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Religion and Social Problems. His work has been published in the Routledge anthology Religious Queers, Queering Religion and he edited a Special Issue on “Religion, Politics and Sexuality” for the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s Scholar and Feminist Online. Other work has appeared in the Journal of Labor and Society; Situations: Project for the Radical Imagination; Socialism and Democracy; Research in the Sociology of Work; and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

- For more information or to join, please contact Dominic ([email protected])