SOC 295-04 - Special Topic: Gender Across the Globe

4 credits (Spring)

Gender is a main organizer of social relations and symbolic systems across the globe. Departing from the basic concepts around the sociology of gender, this course draws on comparative literature including ethnographic, sociological, political, and activist examples, to examine issues of gender from a global perspective. In this sense, gender is not the sole point of interest, but it will be grasped in connection with race, ethnicity, social class, geopolitical location, among other factors. This course departs also from the social and historical construction of gender toward a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective, bringing into discussion how globalization processes and neoliberalism have influenced the understanding of gender and the challenges to feminism and feminist agenda.

Prerequisite: SOC 111 or GWS 111.
Instructor: Padilla