Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

Gender and Education, 2013

Teaching Sociology, 2008

This course is designed to provide an introductory overview of the histories, debates and political stakes in the study of gender and sexuality. We will examine sex and gender as modes of social organization in which sexed, gendered, and desiring individuals and groups are placed at the intersections of power, privilege, work, reproduction, and the creation of "self" through sexual identity. We will always keep in mind the effects of race, gender, class, economics, public policy, and the political climate on expressions and interpretations of gender and sexuality. Students will be expected to critically and respectfully engage with a variety of materials on human sexualities and develop a working understanding of the modes of study of gender sexuality in order to push back against commonly held, damaging notions on the "nature" of gender and sexuality.

INTRODUCTION TO GENDER STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION. This course offers an introductory overview of the interdisciplinary field of Gender Studies. The first part of this course introduces a social constructivist approach to the study of race, gender, sexuality, and disability, which foregrounds the historical and cultural contingency of concepts that are often assumed to be innate and grounded in nature. Next, the second part of this course offers a brief intellectual history of intersectionality, a foundational premise of the field, which in short argues the inextricability of various systems of privilege and oppression. These sections lay the conceptual groundwork for the third section of this course. In this section, we consider the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability in the United States during the long 20 th century. Finally, the last section examines the transnational circulation of ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and disability, in relation to the movement of people and capital in local and global markets. Overall, this course aims to introduce students to the topics, methods, and questions central to the field.

1997

TITLE Literature. CUNY Panel: Rethinking the Disciplines. Women in the Curriculum Series. INSTITUTION Towson Univ., Baltimore, MD. National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women. SPONS AGENCY Ford Foundation, New York, NY.; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. ISBN ISBN-1-885303-13-0 PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 71p.; For related documents in this series, see HE 032 663-689.

More than 40 years ago the first courses in women’s studies were introduced in American universities: it was the beginning of a revolution which was going to transform academic institutions in radical and unforeseeable ways......

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2009