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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

WGS 3140 - Studies in Masculinities

Credits: 4
The critical study of masculinities is not only a burgeoning subfield within women’s and gender studies, but also an increasingly important subject within progressive humanities and social science scholarship of all kinds. Emerging initially as a result of the women’s and gay liberation movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, masculinity studies today is an interdisciplinary endeavor based on the notion that masculinities are historically produced, culturally specific, locally practiced, and (continually) subject to change. Students in this course will explore how masculinity – whether considered at the global, national, local, or personal level – is always informed and mediated by intersecting social categories of race, class, and sexuality.
Fulfills: SOSC requirement and D in LS Core.