sxg-5wk course

Why study women?

Why think about women? How do we approach studying sex and gender from a sociological standpoint?

• 1. Andersen CH1: Studying Women: Feminist Perspectives (http://tinyurl.com/zs7x9dw)

  2. bell hooks - Talking Back (http://tinyurl.com/z9bxcru) 

• • CH1 PPT

Theorizing Gender: Social Construction of Gender

How can we think about gender? Sociological way of thinking about women.

• 1. Andersen CH2: Social Construction of Gender (http://tinyurl.com/h8s9jo2) 

  2. Candace West, Don H. Zimmerman. “Doing Gender” Gender and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 125-151. (https://tinyurl.com/y5d9rsqd) 

  3. Kane “No Way My Boys Are Going to be Like That” (https://tinyurl.com/y49j9ft4)

• • CH2 PPT

Queer & Trans Theory

• 1. Andersen, Ch4: Sexuality and Intimate Relationships (pp.103-109) 

  2. Hay - 2019 - Who Counts as a Woman - NYT

  3. Goldberg - 2014 - What is a Woman - New Yorker

  4. Jakubowski, Kaylee - 2018 - No, the existence of trans people doesn’t validate gender essentialism

  5. Wu, K. (2019). Between the (Gender) Lines: the Science of Transgender Identity - Science in the News. Retrieved 11 August 2019. 

  6. Gender as performance: Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender 

  7. Queer Theory