ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER
Theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the anthropology of gender, focusing on current works. Topics include sexual inequality, research methods, gender and history, gender and ethnographic writing, cultural constructions of masculinity, sexuality, and gender studies and anthropological theory.
Topics
- sexual inequality
- research methods
- gender and history
- gender and ethnographic writing
- cultural constructions of masculinity
- sexuality
- and gender studies and anthropological theory
Topics explicitly listed in official catalogue description
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize comprehensive understanding of gender relations, identities, and ideologies in cross-cultural and historical perspective across a wide range of human cultures. Audience: Graduate 2. Describe the gendered and intersectional dimensions of knowledge production in the discipline of cultural anthropology and its relationship to the history of the discipline, the development of modernist social and cultural anthropology, and the historical and contemporary uses of the ethnographic method. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply concepts of the intersections of gender, culture, race, class, ethnicity, and nationality to inform and enrich one’s own interdisciplinary research topics. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize comprehensive understanding of gender relations, identities, and ideologies in cross-cultural and historical perspective across a wide range of human cultures. Audience: Graduate 2. Describe the gendered and intersectional dimensions of knowledge production in the discipline of cultural anthropology and its relationship to the history of the discipline, the development of modernist social and cultural anthropology, and the historical and contemporary uses of the ethnographic method. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply concepts of the intersections of gender, culture, race, class, ethnicity, and nationality to inform and enrich one’s own interdisciplinary research topics. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
- Catalogue entry ↗
Catalogue variants
- ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER · 3 credits.