ANTH 464 - Anthropology of Gender

Description

Hours: Three hours seminar per week Prerequisite: ANTH 102 Description: Provides an overview of anthropological approaches to the study of gender, including the ways in which gender shapes cultural systems and how it varies cross-culturally and across time and space. Discusses biological and evolutionary perspectives on gender, domestic/public dichotomy, division of labor, cultural constructions of femininity and masculinity, how conceptions of the body inform gender and sexual identity, third genders and alternative sexualities, and the roles of the state, kinship, and ideology in gender systems.

Meeting Information

Info current as 12/3/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
TTH  4:30 PM  -  5:45 PM  Manzanita 1142 1/20/2018 - 5/25/2018 Wallace Zane

Status: Open
Class Number: 1361
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Seminar
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/20/2018 - 5/25/2018
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 16
Available Seats: 14
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780205872800
Title: World Full of Women
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Author: Ward

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780674004320
Title: Nisa: Life & Words of a Kung Woman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Author: Shostak

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780030119194
Title: Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Author: Weiner

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781317342465
Title: A World Full of Women
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Author: Ward

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division

Notes

Prerequisite course required. Consult CSUCI Catalog