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Gender, Sexuality, and Society

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Instructor: Prof. Heather Paxson
Term: Spring 2006
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 1 handout · 23 other files · 4 web pages
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Lecture 1: Introduction to the Study of Gender and Sexuality: The Sex/Gender System ( PDF )

Lecture 2: Is Sex to Gender as Nature is to Culture? ( PDF )

Lecture 3: Cultural Acquisition of Gender as Learned Behavior ( PDF )

Lecture 4: Arranged Marriage and Inheritance in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies ( PDF )

Lecture 5: Science, Republicanism and The Woman Question ( PDF )

Lecture 6: Social Reproduction: Reproducing Formal and Informal Class Relations ( PDF )

Lecture 7: Women in the Global Economy (No Lecture)

Lecture 8: Gender, Work and Professionalization ( PDF )

Lecture 9: Gender and Agency ( PDF )

Lecture 10: Appetite, Image, Control ( PDF )

Lecture 11: The Invention of Sexuality-based Identities ( PDF )

Lecture 12: Coming Out and Leaving the Closet Behind ( PDF )

Lecture 13: Other Genders/Sexualities ( PDF )

Lecture 14: Transvestite Lives and Sex Work ( PDF )

Lecture 15: Transgender and Transexualism in the U.S. ( PDF )

Lecture 16: Intersexuality ( PDF )

Lecture 17: Do Western Sexual Identities Travel? ( PDF )

Lecture 18: Sexism, Racism and Violence ( PDF )

Lecture 19: De-essentializing Sex/Gender/Kinship ( PDF )

Lecture 20: Fetal Images and Abortion Debates ( PDF )

Lecture 21: Nationalism, Reproductive Politics and Gender ( PDF )

Lecture 22: Making Modern Mothers ( PDF )