WGS 574 - Gender and Society

Graduate standing. (3)

Critical examination of gender as a social and institutional construct. Use of theory to interrogate the sex/gender binary, identity and bodies. How the experience of gender and the structure of gendered institutions are shaped by cross-cutting lines of difference and inequality - social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age (among others). Effects of gender inequality on women, men and society. Not open to students with credit for SOC 474/WGS 474. Also listed as SOC 574. Graded ABCDE