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Gather and Grow: WGSS Pop-up Undergrad Open House
December 2, 2025, 3:30-5:30pm
CMC202
Join us for a relaxed, welcoming space to connect with WGSS faculty and fellow students. Reflect on the semester, share your thoughts and memories, and celebrate our community鈥攑izza included! Drop by for as long as you can鈥攅veryone鈥檚 welcome!
WGSS Brown Bag Series Talk: Fae Chubin's "Proper Women: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran"
January 27, 2026, 12:30-2:00pm
Hybrid event: CMC 202T & Teams
Fae Chubin will discuss her recently published book about the transnational activism of Iranian feminists. By telling the unprecedented story of an NGO-led women鈥檚 empowerment program in Tehran, she demonstrates the entanglement of class and ethnic discourses of respectability with Iran鈥檚 middle-class feminism. Chubin鈥檚 book delineates the well-intentioned efforts of cosmopolitan NGO administrators whose loyalty to liberal feminist principles of individualism, sexual autonomy, and anti-traditionalism had complicated their objective of empowering marginalized women.
Fae Chubin is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampa. Her research explores gender, race, class, identity politics, border and immigration discourses, and the resistance of subaltern women. Her book Proper Women: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran examines the class and ethnic discourses of respectability entangled with Iran鈥檚 middle-class feminism.
Chubin鈥檚 work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Sexualities, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Women鈥檚 Studies International Forum, the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, and Sociological Inquiry. Her most recent work on genital surgeries and the commodification of female genitalia was published this year in the edited volume Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies.
If you would like to attend this event remotely via Teams, email us for the meeting link, and specify you are RSVPing for the Brown Bag event.
WGSS 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: Present Tense / Future Possibilities
February 13, 2026
USF Tampa Campus - MSC 3rd Floor
For more information and the call for proposals, visit the conference page.
The deadline for conference proposals is December 12, 2025.
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.