WGS 474 - Gender and Society

SOC 100, at least junior standing; or consent of instructor.3

Nature and causes of sex stratification in society. Cross-cultural regularities in sex role development. Freudian and neo-Freudian perspectives, Marxist perspectives, structural functionalism, and radical feminism. Interpersonal and institutional processes which operate to keep women and men in their place in American society. Alternatives to structured sexual inequality in societies.Also Listed as SOC 474.