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2010-2011 Calendar | Gender Studies |

Gender Studies GDST Courses

Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
91ÅÝܽ Calendar 2010-2011

GDST 200-3 Thinking 91ÅÝܽ Gender

An introduction to the major critical debates on gender from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. Topics include the construction and regulation of gender and the relation between gender and ideologies of sexuality, race, class and nation. Breadth-Humanities.

GDST 300-4 Masculinities

Maps the field of masculinity studies and explores its intersections with feminist, postcolonial, queer, and critical race theories. Prerequisite: 30 units.

GDST 301-4 Queer Genders

Introduces students to current debates on gender identity and gender difference from the perspectives of queer subjects. Explores recent theoretical and cultural works on gender from queer, transgender, and feminist perspectives, while examining the challenges they pose to current understanding of sex, gender, sexuality, and the body. Prerequisite: GDST 200. Students who have taken WS 301 Special Topic: Theorizing Queer Genders may not take this course for further credit.

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