- Course Catalog Description:
- Gender is something so fundamental to our lives, to our identities, and how we interact with others that we often take it for granted. However, understandings of gender vary across time and place, and even within cultures, making it clear that our understandings of gender are not universal or timeless. In this class, we will examine how gender intersects with race and sexuality, as well as how it impacts areas of our lives such as child socialization, family structure, the media, intimate relationships, and the workplace prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cabdi+SOC3221+Spring2024
- Class Description:
This course examines gender through an interdisciplinary perspective. We will explore how we all ‘do gender' and how this performance varies across time and space. The course draws from literature on the United States as well as from transnational perspectives to critically study the gendered patterns produced by institutions in our society. These patterns reveal how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, nation, class, religion and sexuality in complex ways. We will also engage with academic literature examining how gender shapes our lives throughout the life course including child socialization, family structure, the media, intimate relationships, and the workplace.
- Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate a good understanding of feminist sociological theories on gender in society.
Recognize and compare local and global perspectives on gender constructions through sociological theories.
Understand how gender intersects and is closely linked with various power hierarchies in society such as race, class, sexuality.
- Grading:
19%-Attendance, participation, presentations.
60%-Two exams over the course of the semester.
21%-.7 brief written reflections on the weekly readings
- Exam Format:
- Two exams over the course of the semester. These exams will include short answer as well as essay-type questions.
- Class Format:
- Lectures, videos, group discussions and student-led presentations
- Workload:
- about 50-60 pages of reading per week
Two books required (you are welcome to buy used editions of these books which are easily available from online vendors. Any of the editions of these works will be acceptable.
Both books are available electronically from our library
- De Beauvoir, Simone. . Knopf, 2010.
https://primo.lib.umn.edu/permalink/01UMN_INST/oqqrhb/cdi_ingenta_journals_ic_asag_07387806_v41n4_20210909_1543_default_tar_gz_s4
- Collins, Patricia Hill. Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge, 2002.
- https://primo.lib.umn.edu/permalink/01UMN_INST/1mqhnoa/alma9975784193901701
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65284/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 2 November 2023