WS 325A - Gender and Sex: Identities, Representations, and Politics

Institution:

Merrimack College

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Description:

This interdisciplinary course will focus how gender identities and sexualities are constructed, contested and mapped on bodies and the culture. We will explore the social meanings and consequences of what it is to be a woman or a man in contemporary US society. How do US gender and sex identities differ from other culture's ideas of sex and gender and how have our ideas about gender and sex shifted historically, socially, and politically? A major concentration of the course will be looking at transgender, transsexual, gender queer and intersex politics, identity and representation. We will also examine queer theory, hate crimes and what feminism has to do with gender politics.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.merrimack.edu

Phone Number:

(978) 837-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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