Sexuality Wmn's & Gndr Studies 100 - Construction of Gender
Fall
2015
01
4.00
Aneeka Henderson, Martha Saxton
TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM
Amherst College
SWAG-100-01-1516F
FAYE 113
ahenderson@amherst.edu; msaxton@amherst.edu
This course introduces students to the issues involved in the social and historical construction of gender and gender roles from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. Topics change from year-to-year and have included women and social change; male and female sexualities including homosexualities; the uses and limits of biology in explaining human gender differences; women’s participation in production and reproduction; the relationship among gender, race and class as intertwining oppressions; women, men and globalization; and gender and warfare.
Fall semester. Professors Saxton and Henderson.