Wk1: Why Study Women

Objectives:

• Be able to cite some of the current data on the status of women.

• Connect personal troubles and public issues from a sociological perspective.

• Analyze how gender shapes everyone's experiences.

• Discuss why gender matters as well as how it intersects with race, class, and sexuality.

• Discuss how social norms and strictures structure and define "woman" and women's experiences.

• Develop a framework for thinking about women.