ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER

ANTHRO/GEN&WS 443

Contributions of women anthropologists to feminist and anthropological theories and research methods. Field research and gender. Current debates in women's studies and anthropology in light of recent research on women and gender in cross-cultural perspective.

C&ESOC/GEN&WS/SOC 904

Advanced topics in the analysis of gender relations in society.

GEN&WS 800

Explores feminist approaches to methods in the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences, such as ethnography, interviews, statistics, focus groups, surveys, archival research, discourse analysis, and visual analysis. Applies transdisciplinary perspectives to consider work from a range of academic fields and topics in order to critique issues of epistemology, methodology, methods, interpretation, and writing.

GEN&WS 830

Examines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women including what constitutes "good" gender and women studies' theorizing, how to recognize gender-based oppression when we see it, how gender, race, sexuality, and other hierarchies of power intersect, as well as the merits of transnational theorizing about gender and women. Explores whether gender and women's studies' theorizing is a form of activism, how to teach theory in gender and women's studies' classrooms, the value of cultivating distinct gender and women studies' methods, and other dimensions of putting gender and women's studies' theorizing into practice.

ANTHRO/EDPOL 970

Anthropological theory, methodology, and field techniques with specific reference to school ethnography and cross-cultural studies of socialization and education. Topics vary.