WGSS 209 - Sex, Cyborgs, and Society

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Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course asks how contemporary relations between women and men are changing under the transformations of technology, science, and medicine. Sex is explored as an integral and complex element of gender. Does sex, as a biological construct, determine gender? Or is gender in fact fixed at all? Sexuality also is considered as a practice, in which intimate relations are being mediated by new technological developments on the internet. Society is addressed as a lens or framework for our discussion of gender. What is "social" about these dynamics? Cyborgs are the substantive focus of our discussion. We pay special attention to developments in technology, science, and medicine, and ask if it is improving or degrading gender relations.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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