GWSP 2301 Concepts in Gender and Sexuality
Using an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, this course focuses on foundational concepts informing gender, sexuality, and LGBTIA+ Studies. This course investigates the ways that constructions of gender and sexuality in relation to other intersectional categories of analysis, such as race, class, or citizenship, structure our social worlds and intimate lives. Further, this course explores not only what it means for gender and sexuality to be socially constructed, but also the mechanisms and institutions of power through which they are produced and reproduced. Topics of study may include, but are not limited to, the construction of gender; gender as performance; constructions of sex and sexuality; queer studies and queer theory; transgender studies; masculinity studies; identity, knowledge production, and culture; activism, and social justice.
Offered
Spring and Summer