Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies

Catalog description

This introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of Gender & Sexuality Studies presents a historical, sociological, cultural, and theoretical overview of how gender and sexuality have been lived and understood over the past two hundred years. In addition to providing the basic vocabularies and concepts central to women's, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, the course will enable students to analyze the ways in which conceptions of gender and sexuality intersect with class, race, ethnicity, ability, and age to define social categories, shape identities, and form (or re- form) systems of power, privilege, and oppression.