Gender and Visual Representations

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course examines the embodiment of gender, its performance and representation in visual culture. Aiming to enable students to think critically about historical and contemporary visual representations of gender, the students will apply critical analysis in order to examine how works of art, media productions and texts that accompany them, shape varied meanings and perceptions of gender. The topics examined in this course include but are not limited to the following: visual representations of gender and gender relations, gender and power, the politics of visual representations, gender and religion, and representations of gender in popular media.