TRANS/GENDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Name: TRANS/GENDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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GEN&WS/HISTORY 346

과목 설명

Focuses on sex/gender crossing and variation in historical contexts including Japan, South Africa, Europe, the African diaspora, and North America. Considers perspectives of people who themselves passed, crossed, transitioned, transed, or otherwise exceeded their culture's definitions of normative sex/gender. Alongside, consider the ways that dominant social institutions reinforced norms, recognized, tolerated, punished and/or celebrated gender variation. Examine popular culture, medical and legal perspectives, memoir, queer and trans theory, and social movement treatises.

선수과목

Sophomore standing

충족 요건

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

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평점

2.76

-10.05% 과거 데이터 대비

수료율

89.09%

-3.94% 과거 데이터 대비

A 비율

32.73%

-20.05% 과거 데이터 대비

학급 규모

-14.51% 과거 데이터 대비

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유사 과목

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Explores the social, cultural, and political construction of the female/feminine body. Considers specifically the bodies of women and girls, transgender women, non-binary people that embody the feminine, female masculinities, and bodies that identify and are identified as female, as bodies that have historically and traditionally been sites of political contention, of societal meaning making, of cultural symbolism, and active resistance. Seeks to challenge what we think we know about bodies, challenging tacit knowledge and investigating how normative discourses of the female/feminine body are formed across cultures, around the world. Considers the impacts of phenomena such as globalization, neoliberalism, "global" feminism, imperialism, capitalism, and human rights movements on cultural conceptions of health, ability, beauty, representation, and the "value" of female/feminine bodies.

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GEN&WS 374

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