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WGS.172

For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

3-0-9 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

See description under subject 21A.111[J] .

Spring 2016

Topics

  • Introduction to the study of family, gender and sexuality
  • Gender acquisition: Learning (and unlearning) the “facts of life”
  • Arranged marriage, ascribed status, inheritance and gendered divisions of labor in pastoral and agrarian societies
  • Gender, agency, and virtue
  • Chosen marriage, achieved status, and gendered divisions of labor in wage labor societies
  • The racial and gendered economy of social reproduction
  • Family, class and social mobility in the U.S. (1)
  • Family, class and social mobility in the U.S. (2)
  • Consumption and social citizenship
  • Rethinking the meaning(s) of love
  • Marriage and heteronormativity
  • Is “the family” a cultural universal?
  • Not all happily ever after: Anger, violence & harm
  • Making families, making citizens
  • The problem of childlessness, the problem of ‘familylessness’
  • The labor of reproduction: Surrogacy
  • Reproductive rights, redux
  • Where to go next: “Having it all,” or reframing the question?
  • Student presentations
  • Student presentations (cont.)

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Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 21A.111[J] Prereq: None Acad Year 2027-2028: U (Spring) Acad Year 2028-2029: Not offered 3-0-9 units. HASS-S

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