ANTH 570J - Gender Stud & Feminist Theory

Credits: Variable

This course explores central works of scholarship in feminist theory, and surveils the field of gender studies. We will look especially at the development and deployment of feminist intersectional understandings of a variety of social phenomena, with ‘intersectional’ taken to mean the way that constructions of gender interact with other forms of social inequality, such as race/ethnicity, class and sexuality. Topics include but are not limited to the construction of gender display and the formation of femininities and masculinities; the gendered state and social movement politics; feminist understandings of the family and reproductive politics; gender and work; gender and labor migration; the bio-politics and medicalization of aspects of experience; and resistances to hegemonic regimes of gender control.