Gender & Sports Through an Intersectional Lens

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The US sports industry is a highly gendered social institution with a long history of reproducing gender inequality. This course invites students to reconsider sports and the idea of athleticism through the lens of intersectional feminism. Over twelve weeks, we will look at sports from several different angles: as proof that gender is a social construct, and that men and women are more alike than different; as an important site where cultural understandings of masculinity and femininity are constantly being redefined; as a source of case studies for examining social problems like sexual violence and the wage gap; and as a medium for exploring our campus, our health and well-being, and the city of New Orleans.