Sex and Gender in Critical Perspective (FGSS Gateway)
FGSS 200
Spring 2015
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01
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| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
This course provides an introduction and overview of some key texts in modern and contemporary feminist thought on sex and gender. This course will examine multiple ideas about the body-subject, identity, and experience in relation to sex, gender and sexuality. We will also examine other categories, identities, and social hierarchies that complicate thought about sex and gender, including race and nation, dis/ability, class, and more. We will identify epistemological and ontological arguments in feminist and other social thought on sex/gender; address various ways of conceptualizing body-subjects in relation to power; look at the political stakes of how sexed, gendered, and sexualized bodies and subjectivities are understood, and consider how they are affected by social structures, representations, and practices. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(EDST)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Simone DeBeauvoir, THE SECOND SEX (selections)
Judith Butler, UNDOING GENDER
Gayle Rubin THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN (essay)
Donna Haraway, THE CYBORG MANIFESTO (essay)
Elizabeth Grosz, VOLATILE BODIES (selections)
Linda Alcoff, VISIBLE IDENTITIES: RACE, GENDER AND THE SELF (selections)
Patricia Hill Collins, BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT (selections)
Anne Fausto-Sterling, THE BARE BONES OF SEX (article)
Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, MISFITS (article)
Jasbir Puar, THE TURBAN IS NOT A HAT (article)
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Examinations and Assignments:
weekly quizzes, midterm exam, final exam |
| Instructor(s): Pitts-Taylor,Victoria Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: ALLB103; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 25 | FR: 15 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 12 | 1st Ranked: 4 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 5 |
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