This section features lecture notes for the entire semester. They relate directly to the assigned readings.
Lecture notes file.
| Lec # |
Topics |
| 1 |
Introduction to the Study of Gender and Sexuality: The Sex/Gender System (PDF) |
| Part I: Concepts and Themes |
| 2 |
Is Sex to Gender as Nature is to Culture? (PDF) |
| 3 |
Cultural Acquisition of Gender as Learned Behavior (PDF) |
| Part II: Gender as a Social Institution |
| 4 |
Arranged Marriage and Inheritance in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies (PDF) |
| 5 |
Science, Republicanism and The Woman Question (PDF) |
| 6 |
Social Reproduction: Reproducing Formal and Informal Class Relations (PDF) |
| 7 |
Women in the Global Economy (No Lecture) |
| 8 |
Gender, Work and Professionalization (PDF) |
| 9 |
Gender and Agency (PDF) |
| 10 |
Appetite, Image, Control (PDF) |
| Part III: Gender and Sexuality as Identity |
| 11 |
The Invention of Sexuality-based Identities (PDF) |
| 12 |
Coming Out and Leaving the Closet Behind (PDF) |
| 13 |
Other Genders/Sexualities (PDF) |
| 14 |
Transvestite Lives and Sex Work (PDF) |
| 15 |
Transgender and Transexualism in the U.S. (PDF) |
| 16 |
Intersexuality (PDF) |
| 17 |
Do Western Sexual Identities Travel? (PDF) |
| 18 |
Sexism, Racism and Violence (PDF) |
| Part IV: Reproductive Politics and Gendered Citizenship |
| 19 |
De-essentializing Sex/Gender/Kinship (PDF) |
| 20 |
Fetal Images and Abortion Debates (PDF) |
| 21 |
Nationalism, Reproductive Politics and Gender (PDF) |
| 22 |
Making Modern Mothers (PDF) |
