Politics of Sex & Gender

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What is the relation between the categories of identification we know as “sex” and “gender”? Can the relation be effectively explained in terms of the natural-cultural, or biological-social divisions we generally use as explanation? This course will not only address these questions, but it will also explore how the classification “sex/gender” is sustained by, and deployed for, political motivations, and how it results in specific meanings and uses.