Gender in Global Perspective

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Is every-body either male or female? Does the body precede being female or male, black or white, gay or straight? Has the body always been so throughout history? This seminar will use interdisciplinary and cross-cultural lenses to examine gender, one of the most important aspects by which our bodies are categorized. We will consider the contestation of 'gender' in the context of decolonial critique and conservative 'anti-Gender' backlash; and will read a wide range of texts on questions such as embodiment, medicine, historiography, trans debate, and performativity. 001294