GENDER 208: THINKING GENDER

Semester 1, 2017

Mondays 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  (Arts 1, Room 209)

Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. – Noon (Biology Building, Room 204)

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Course Catalog Description

Explores current issues and debates in the scholarship on gender, focusing on issues that cross disciplinary boundaries and that are subjects of current debate in gender scholarship.

Expanded Course Description

This course explores the interdisciplinary field of feminist theory, looking at the historical development of feminist theory across the humanities and social sciences, but emphasizing current developments in feminist theorizing around questions of identity, embodiment, gender construction, and the relationship between gender and sexuality. The primary objective of this course is for students to develop a broad understanding of a range of feminist approaches to analyzing social structures, texts, and cultural phenomena so that they can compare and apply these approaches in their written academic work and everyday life.

Required Readings/Texts

• Gay, Roxanne. 2014. Bad Feminist: Essays. Harper Collins/Corsair: New York/London. Available for purchase at UBS. (Readings are not reprinted in the course reader.)

• GENDER 208 Course Reader. Hard copy available at UBS; electronic copies of individual readings available through TALIS (accessible through course CANVAS page).

The complete course outline is in the front of your course reader. It is also available under "files" (to the left, on this page) or simply by clicking on this hyperlinked text.

Note: lectures for Gender 208 are NOT recorded.