SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transphobia, Racialization, Masculinity
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Office hours: friday 10 am 11:00 am. This course provides students with the opportunity to examine male and female relationships in contemporary western society through the concept of gender as an historical category of analysis. Throughout the course we will challenge many taken-for- granted assumptions about gender relations, gendered and sexed bodies, and human inequalities. In the first half of the course we will critically review various explanations and theories for sex and gender difference, and will explore in considerable detail the social construction of femininity and masculinity. In particular, we will call into question sexual and gender binaries and invite you to consider alternative ways of conceptualizing sex and gender differences. This will enable students to develop an understanding of the relationship between sex, gender, and sexuality. This analytical framework will be applied in the second half of the course to an examination of specific gender arrangements in personal and institutional settings.
