SOSA 3100

This course will begin with an overview discussing what is feminism? There is no way to come to a definitive answer to this question, therefore the first month of classes will focus on readings and discussion of feminism from an historical perspective. We will investigate the three historical waves of feminism and the diversity of feminism found in the social sciences. After this brief introduction we will concentrate on gender and sex, clearly dominant themes found in feminist works. We will approach this by critically exploring socio-cultural constructions of sex and gender, which in turn will shed critical light on feminist perspectives about the relationship between these two concepts.