Saguy is very passionate about the field she's teaching in, which is great for student learning.
The readings were VERY dense and her lectures sometimes very dry. But she brings in guest lecturers, which are fun.
the Empirical essay was not too much to ask for at all, 6 pages can feel like one when you have loads to write about.
My TA Amberia was awesome! If you have a good TA, you can make sense of these LONG readings.
There is 3 quizzes, she drops the lowest one. Her wording is VERY tricky and hard, so pay attention to detail but do not over think it.No midterm, just the paper.
OOO and do the mid-quarter evaluations and take them very seriously. She will change the pace and/or workload of the course if enough students feel she is going to fast.

One downside, she talks mostly of the female experience when it comes to gender.
The only time i heard her talk about men is when she was bashing them or they were Gay.

She compensates for how easy the material is by giving you obscure quiz questions and taking off points for things such as spelling the authors name wrong or writing too long of paragraphs. Her lectures got dryer as the quarter went on and it often felt as if she does not really know what she's talking about. This class was honestly very underwhelming and required a crazy amount of reading. I did not find this class to be intellectually compelling or groundbreaking and It was strangely hard to get good grades in it even when knowing exactly what the terms/material means. I would take a different class.

Saguy's class is very doable. She assigns a lot of readings, but she highlights the main points she will be testing on during lecture, so you can often get away with just skimming the readings before each quiz. Your grade is based on 3 quizzes (she drops 1), an empirical essay, and a final exam. The 5-6 page empirical essay is based on your observations of gender at a specific field site. I actually really enjoyed writing the essay, and had a lot to write about. I re-listened to the Bruincasts, looked over the slides, and skimmed the required readings before each quiz and got 100% on all our quizzes. She's really clear about what she wants you to know.

Don't take her class if you're looking for an A..

yes, she is passionate and her lecture is good but she grades hard!
her TAs too! they grade hard.

I really enjoyed Professor Saguy's class. She's clearly passionate about what she teaches and she makes the lectures very engaging; I learned a lot of interesting information that I still bring up in my day to day life. The readings were interesting, although there were a lot of them so make sure to keep up because you won't be able to BS your way through the quizzes. The lectures are not mandatory but you can get extra credit for participating in the polls during class.

I was slightly disappointed with the lecture on transgender people because she used some outdated language and ideas, but she did change some of the lecture slides after students spoke to her about it. I would maybe take the trans lecture with a grain of salt and try to learn more about the trans community from actual trans people. Hopefully she includes a guest lecturer in the future.

I would definitely recommend this class to others if you're prepared to read and go to lecture!

Professor Saguy's class was okay. She assigns a lot of interesting material to read, so I found that to be a plus. Grading is composed of a midterm, final, ethnography paper, and discussion participation. Most students complain about the multiple choice exams. I agree, she's not the best with multiple choice questions to test the course material. She tries hard to be tricky, and her exams are often full of grammar/spelling errors. But if you've done the reading or attended lecture, most of the questions are pretty straight forward. Fortunately, she curves well to make up for the low grade average. It got annoying after the midterm how she tried to lift up student's spirits with remarks like "Don't think you're too dumb..." every time someone asked a question. I hate to say it, but it was very "feminine" of her to act this way, but at least it showed that she was concerned.

The ethnography paper can be a pain because you're expected to observe a site (like a gym or bar) for 6 hours, take field notes, and write 6 pages on it using 3 class readings. For all the work you do, 6 pages is pretty short to put down all of what you observed and have it analyzed through 3 class readings, so you'll just have to struggle to condense all the info to EXACTLY 6 pages (they seriously expect exactly 6 full pages). But you're graded pretty fairly on them.

My biggest complaint would be lecture. It's just too slow-paced. I wish we discussed the material more in-depth. Often times, it seemed like a plain repeat of the readings. But the professor does encourage the class to think for themselves and to participate in lecture, so she's certainly concerned with student learning. She likes to learn student's names.

So no one should be intimidated by the course. If you do what you have to do, you should be fine. There's lots of readings, so don't fall behind, but a lot of them are pretty interesting in fact.

I found this class to be rather disappointing. The professor was not really up to date with culturally appropriate terminology and was very defensive when people would try to correct her. She was also not very helpful when students seek out help. Also, for the final paper, she was very hesitant to allow the TAs to give out As on the paper - that is just WRONG in my opinion. If you could take the class with someone else, I would recommend doing that.

Pros:
-her lectures are interesting/engaging and she is funny

Cons:
-way too many readings that you have to do because you're regularly quizzed on them and have to turn in a reading log each week plus five extra ones during finals week that everyone thought was extra credit but were mandatory!!!!!
-you have to use this ai website called sway chats and have conversations with students who disagree with you - good idea but literally so annoying in execution, the lag is crazy and tbh the way it is set up was not helpful for letting me see other's viewpoints, it was just more annoying busy work
-there is soooo much busy work! the essay has a million small checkpoints that are supposed to 'set you up for success' but genuinely just stressed me out so much more and made the whole thing so much more complicated
-finally the main reason i'm writing my review: during the first quiz she said no one was allowed to leave until everyone!!! is done with the quiz or the class time is over -okay super annoying but whatever. for the second quiz this was not the case and we were allowed to leave when we finished. for the third quiz i went to leave and a TA CHASED me down the center aisle and told me i couldn't leave and i had to go back and sit down. saguy claims that this policy is to mitigate distraction - i feel like it's pretty distracting having a TA chase a student down like be so for real.
during the final, this was also the policy. she had TAs physically standing in front of every single exit. multiple people tried to leave after finishing their test and were told they couldn't and they had to go sit down. one TA chased a girl into the hallway. i finished 45 minutes early, so i decided okay i'm stuck here i'll work on an essay for another class. i pull out my computer. my friend is also done with her test and she's on her phone. a TA literally came over to us and told my friend she couldn't be on her phone even though she finished her test and i couldn't be on my computer. i said "i fail to see how me being on my computer is a distraction" to which the TA agreed with me, but said this was saguy's policy and there was nothing she could do. i said "so saguy wants us to sit here for 45 minutes and do nothing and stare at the wall?" and the TA said yes. the TAs were going around the room making people that had finished the test put their phones away.
eventually a lot of people were finishing and TAs were running around the room telling people they couldn't leave. one of them talked to this girl and she immediately stood up and left and i was like ok she said she could leave i'm leaving so my friend and i left as fast as possible so we wouldn't get chased down and dragged back to our seats.

overall:
the main reason i'm writing this review is because of how angry the above incident made me. i am a grown adult paying money to go to this school and i think its extremely unreasonable for a professor to prevent students from leaving her classroom after finishing a final AND THEN not allowing us to do anything but sit there and stare at the wall. i also feel for her TAs because they clearly could tell she was being insane but were forced to enforce it.
for this reason and the above reasons, i HIGHLY recommend NOT taking this class with her or this professor at all

Love this class. Saguy is a great professor that is engaging and wants to help you learn. Super understanding. She is awesome. The class itself is very interesting and has broad ideas, it does not force you to comply with specific ideas about gender. It encourages you to voice your opinion and try to understand others as well. Amazing class

Pretty straightforward class. There are three quizzes, worst grade gets dropped, weekly reading logs of which only five went into the gradebook, and a final research paper (you interview someone and thats ur data). Feedback is very important and she is pretty accommodating in that regard. However there are issues with the class organization, it was a bit confusing and some assignment sort of came out of nowhere, and she is not accommodating with difficulty taking the quizzes (if you have to miss it for some reason or if it crashes), because of the fact she drops a quiz, so as long as you are there and do the assignments, you should be on track for a good grade.