SOCI 3240

In this course, students explore gender dynamics in a global context. Students examine social, sexual, economic, and political dimensions of gender in multiple geographic and cultural locations. They analyze gender norms and structures as they vary across cultures, societies, and historical periods. Students investigate power relations between the Global North and the Global South, Colonization, Orientalism, and Eurocentrism. Feminist and decolonizing approaches to the study of gender from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives are explored, including post-colonial and critical race theory, queer theory, cultural studies, political economy, and Indigenous knowledges.