WGS 1000 - Gender, Power and Difference 3 s.h.

Introduces approaches of women’s and gender studies from a variety of feminist perspectives, across the social sciences and humanities. Surveys feminist theorizing of sex, gender, and sexuality, the social constructions of gender and sexuality, and the intersections of social and cultural markers, such as class, dis/ability, and nation across diverse historical and community formations. The course examines social justice movements, and issues of critical importance within the discipline - relationships and intimacy, power and difference, reproductive health and bodily issues, representation of marginalized groups, structural inequalities - that impact daily life and experience as vectors of the political. A-E Only.
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