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 11/3/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
MW  1:30 PM  -  2:45 PM  Online 1/22/2022 - 5/20/2022 Patricia Taber

Status: Open
Class Number: 2155
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Seminar
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/22/2022 - 5/20/2022
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 9
Available Seats: 16
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780136061328
Title: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Author: Brettell

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Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • Synchronous online