GWS150B1

Over the past 20 years, we have seen a proliferation of new terms to help keep pace of the shifting meanings of and experimentations with gender: gender non-binary; gender fluid; transgender; racialized gender; and, cisgender, to name a few. Never has there been a more urgent (and exciting!) time to take a class that carefully navigates these terms and the important subject positions they represent. How have these shifts influenced the work of visual artists? What new tools do literary scholars need in order to analyze innovative creative writing that seeks to destabilize gender? How have sociologists expanded their presuppositions about the social transmission of gender roles? And how can we, as students of this class, build connections between the artists, literary scholars, and sociologists in order to create our own robust interdisciplinary frameworks that are capacious enough to apprehend new and dynamic gender formations? In addition to exploring these questions, we will consider the ways that gender influences, and is influenced by, social differences, social status, and political and economic systems. We will track the connections between the individual and institutions such as mass media, science, education, and the family. By the end of the semester students should have developed a facility with gender as a key term of interdisciplinary analysis and should have a good understanding of the dynamic interactions between gender, race, sexuality, nation, embodiment, and socio-economic class.

GE - T1-INDV (Tier 1 Individuals & Societies), GEED - BC (Gen Ed: Building Connections)

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