Sections offered SPRING 2020:
#2599 |
COLIN JOHNSON |
MWF 10:10am-11:00am |
PY 115 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This course examines the international emergence of the field of women’s studies; the achievements and limitations of scholarly work exploring oppression and discrimination based on sex and sex differences; the development of the category “gender” and its uses and abuses; and the relevance of changing understandings of the term “culture” for the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality across diverse historical periods, regions, nations, and societies. The course examines of a series of case studies. Particular attention devoted to the ways in which “gender” as practice, performance, and representation has differed for women and men according to race, class, and other divisions.