Gender
and Society (Fall 2007)
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of the Pilot Curriculum General Education Requirement
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Requirement Course Descriptions
This course
fulfills
Category I of the General Education Requirement.
Faculty:
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Shannon Lundeen
Faculty, Women's Studies
Rm. 411, Logan/6304
bshannon@sas.upenn.edu
215.898.9607
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Meeting
Times:
| LEC |
WSTD
002 601 |
W
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6:00
- 9:00 |
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Faculty:
Meeting Times:
| LEC |
WSTD 002 001 |
T R |
10:30 - 12:00 |
Course
Description:
This
interdisciplinary course examines the impact of sex and gender roles on contemporary
societies in the US and around the world, using an interdisciplinary approach.
Differentiation by sex is the central
organizing principle of nearly every human society. How can we understand
the relationship between biological sex and socially constructed gender?
How do maleness and femaleness affect the balance of power and the distribution
of resources? How much has changed since the beginning of the Second
Wave women's movement in the 1960s? Have we undergone a "gender
revolution?" The course will examine key sites of gender difference
and inequality including family life, paid work,
violence, body image and sexuality. The course will examine
men's roles and women's roles, treating gender as an interactive and dynamic
concept. The main focus will
be on the US, but the course will also examine gender in an international
context and will present topics in social and cultural (as well as in historical
and economic) frameworks.
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