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Welcome 

Welcome to the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Rice — a wellspring for interdisciplinary inquiry and critical knowledge.

The Politics of Vulnerability: Subjects, Bodies, Communities: In the 2009-2010 academic year, the Center is pleased to host a year-long research series of lectures and seminars, in order to open new questions about the unexamined gender and sexual dynamics of vulnerability, including the vulnerable boundaries of disciplined knowledge that feminist studies continue to negotiate.  

The Center's permanent programs include:

The undergraduate curriculum provides intensive interdisciplinary course work with the Center's affiliated faculty and research-based partnerships with Houston non-profit agencies. The Poverty, Social Justice and Human Capabilities minor offers students cross-disciplinary critical perspectives and summer internship experience.

Ph.D. students from across the humanities and social sciences come to the Center's graduate certificate program to engage debates in gender, feminist, and sexuality studies.  They meet visiting scholars in small colloquia and enrich their doctoral work with teaching assistantships and dissertation support.

Stop by our offices, come to this year's events, or contact us for more information.

 



 

 

 

Faculty Spotlight

DeConick, AprilApril DeConick
Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Religious Studies
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Student Spotlight

KinneyRachel Kinney

Rachel Kinney '09 earned the Salbi Commencement Award for Leadership and Advocacy, named after Zainab Salbi, the 2009 Commencement Speaker.

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Events

November 13, 2009
“The Part That Has No Part: Sexuality, Autology, Genealogy, and the End of Recognition in Contemporary Australia” »