Sociology of Gender
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SOCI 6635
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This graduate seminar is designed to introduce students
to the idea of gender as a cultural construction. It examines various
ways that gender differences have been interpreted and explained,
and emphasizes the ways that gender affects the lives of both women
and men. The course places a particular emphasis on how gender is
intertwined with race, class, and age, among other status categories. |
syllabus
short paper option
research proposal option
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Fall 2008
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. W
2224 Carroll Building |
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required texts (fall 2008): |
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The Gendered Society, Michael Kimmel |
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Playing it Straight, Mindy Blaise |
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We Real Cool, bell hooks |
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Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich |
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Mothers & Children, Susan Chase and Mary Rogers |
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Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins |
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