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SOCI 3550

Gender in Contemporary Social Life

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2020

Topics

  • Introduction to research paper topic with thesis statement
  • Paragraph outline of your main arguments
  • of the evidence (sources) you plan to cite to make your argument
  • A tentative conclusion
  • A references list, using ASA style, of the citations you are using for your research paper
  • (taken from the Annotated Bibliography)
  • developed to show how you make your argument. In the outline of your main arguments, you
  • summarize what you have argued.
  • for ASA referencing style
  • Writing Centre through the library
  • Research Paper
  • research topic area of interest within the field of gender studies and the sociology of gender

Readings

  • Required: 1. The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns and Possibilities, 6" Ed. (2019), edited by Catherine G. Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. Spade.
  • about your topic through our course readings and textbook to write a thesis statement and
  • 2) “The Five Sexes Revisited” by Ann Fausto-Sterling (on D2L)
  • 1) “Food and Gender Identity” by Guptill, Amy, et. al. (on D2L)
  • 2) “Caring about food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen” by Cairns, K., et. al. (on D2L)
  • 3) “Men nurturing through food: Challenging gender dichotomies around domestic cooking” by Michelle Szabo (on D2L)
Undated

Topics

  • presentation (25-30 min in length) OR you can undertake an individual research paper (10
  • pages in length), which focuses on some aspect of gender in contemporary society that
  • prior to determining their area of focus to get a sense of some of the suitable topics for this

Readings

  • Required: 1. The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns and Possibilities, 4th Ed. (2014), edited by Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine.
  • 1) “Introduction” in textbook, pgs.: xiii-xxiv.
  • 1) “The Prism of Gender” in textbook, pgs. 3-9.
  • 2) “Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism” in textbook, pgs. 10-17.
  • 1) “The Interaction of Gender with other Socially Constructed Prisms” in textbook, pgs. 57
  • 2) “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: ‘Doing’ gender across cultural worlds’ in textbook, pgs. 77-89.
  • 3) “Intersectionality in a Transnational World” in textbook, pgs. 89-95.
  • 4) “Reinventing Honourable Masculinity: Discourses from a Working-class Indian Community” in textbook, pgs. 138-147.
  • 1) “Learning and Doing Gender” in textbook, pgs. 157-164.
  • 2) “Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters” in textbook, pgs. 180-186.
  • 3) “ ‘Barbie Dolls’ on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women’s Rugby” in textbook, pgs. 199-210.
  • 1) “The Pink Dragon is Female: Halloween costumes and gender markers” in textbook, pgs. 217-224.
  • 2) ”Separating the Men From the Moms: The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports” in textbook, pgs. 483-494.
  • 1) “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class and Race in Organizations” in textbook, pgs. 342-353.
  • 3)”Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from two generations of work and family change” in textbook, pgs. 391-398.
  • 2) “It’s Your Badge of Inclusion: the Red Hat Society as a gendered subculture of aging” by Barrett et. al. (On D2L)
  • 1) “Some Things we need for a Feminist Revolution” in textbook, pgs. 547-554.
  • 2) “Change Among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality in the Global Arena” in textbook, pgs. 563-579.
  • 1) “Epilogue: Possibilities” in textbook, pgs. 581-585.
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