This section features lecture notes for the entire semester. They relate directly to the assigned readings.
| Lec # | Topics | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the Study of Gender and Sexuality: The Sex/Gender System (PDF) | |
| Part I: Concepts and Themes | ||
| 2 | Is Sex to Gender as Nature is to Culture? (PDF) | |
| 3 | Cultural Acquisition of Gender as Learned Behavior (PDF) | |
| Part II: Gender as a Social Institution | ||
| 4 | Arranged Marriage and Inheritance in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies (PDF) | |
| 5 | Science, Republicanism and The Woman Question (PDF) | |
| 6 | Social Reproduction: Reproducing Formal and Informal Class Relations (PDF) | |
| 7 | Women in the Global Economy (No Lecture) | |
| 8 | Gender, Work and Professionalization (PDF) | |
| 9 | Gender and Agency (PDF) | |
| 10 | Appetite, Image, Control (PDF) | |
| Part III: Gender and Sexuality as Identity | ||
| 11 | The Invention of Sexuality-based Identities (PDF) | |
| 12 | Coming Out and Leaving the Closet Behind (PDF) | |
| 13 | Other Genders/Sexualities (PDF) | |
| 14 | Transvestite Lives and Sex Work (PDF) | |
| 15 | Transgender and Transexualism in the U.S. (PDF) | |
| 16 | Intersexuality (PDF) | |
| 17 | Do Western Sexual Identities Travel? (PDF) | |
| 18 | Sexism, Racism and Violence (PDF) | |
| Part IV: Reproductive Politics and Gendered Citizenship | ||
| 19 | De-essentializing Sex/Gender/Kinship (PDF) | |
| 20 | Fetal Images and Abortion Debates (PDF) | |
| 21 | Nationalism, Reproductive Politics and Gender (PDF) | |
| 22 | Making Modern Mothers (PDF) | |