Class Number: 1411
Description: Hours: Three hours seminar per week This seminar explores a different topic each term.

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Days Time Date Range Location Instructor
MW 04:30 PM - 05:45 PM 08/27/2016 - 12/23/2016 Sierra Hall 1422 Patricia Taber
Status: Open
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Seminar
Career: Undergraduate
Start Date: 08/27/2016
End Date: 12/23/2016
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 14
Available Seats: 11
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0


Textbook / Other Materials

Textbook Status: Required
ISBN: 9780136061328
Title: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Author: Brettell
Publish: Taylor & Francis

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Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • Repeatable up to 9 units.
  • Repeatable by topic.


Notes

  • Course provides an overview of anthropological approaches to the study of gender systems, both theoretically and ethnographically. Issues include: biological and evolutionary perspectives, division of labor and space, cultural constructions of femininity and masculinity, how conceptions of the body inform gender and sexual identity and vice-versa, third genders and alternative sexualities, and roles of the state, kinship, and ideology in gender systems.
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