Gender and Sexuality 1

Undergraduate

This course focuses on the social norms, institutions, and structures that reproduce oppressive gender and sexual relationships at the intimate, everyday, legal, national, and transnational levels. Topics include feminist approaches to masculinity and femininity, sex positivity, gender-based violence, consent, and sex education, with an attention to how race, class, age, and/or ability influence how people experience gender and sexual hierarchies. Prerequisite(s): 3h of 1000-level SOCI or WGST 1413, and second-year standing, or permission of the instructor. Antirequisite(s): Credit can be obtained for only one of SOCI 2403 or WGST 2403.