27726		2:30-3:45	TR			GREMILLION
Above section open to majors only
Above section meets with GNDR-G 600

Concepts of Gender introduces historical, theoretical, behavioral,
philosophical, scientific, and multi- and cross-cultural perspectives
on gender and its meanings, exploring its disciplinary and
interdisciplinary uses and implications. Attention is given to the
emergence of the category "gender" itself, and its variable
applications to different fields of knowledge, experience, cultural
expression, and institutional regulation. Particular themes include:
the postwar emergence of the sex/gender distinction; relationships
between "gender" and the natural, medical, and social sciences; multi-
cultural and cross-cultural variations in meanings and implications
of "gender;" competing approaches to studying masculinity and
femininity within particular fields; the status of "gender" within
areas of feminist scholarship or criticism; and inter-connections
between gender and theories of sexuality, identity, orientation, and
the "lived body."

Readings: avaialble on e-reserves.  Examples of texts excerpted:
Judith
Butler's _Gender Trouble_, Purnima Mankekar's _Screening Culture,
Viewing Politics_, Joanne Meyerowitz's _How Sex Changed_

Reading load: approximately 75-125 pages a week
Assignments: reading responses and a 20pp research paper