College Seminar (101-7-22)

Topic

Gender and Globalization

Instructors

Tara Marie Gonsalves
Tara Gonsalves is a new Assistant Professor of Sociology. Gonsalves' research, which lies at the intersection of global and transnational studies, gender and sexuality, and the sociology of knowledge, examines how gender and sexuality categories are created and contested.

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 314: Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

"Gender and Globalization"

In this course, we will explore the relationship between gender and globalization. We will study how gender and sexuality are produced as global social categories. The course will survey liberal approaches to gender and sexuality categories as sites for transnational claims-making. It will then turn to postcolonial and transnational feminist critiques of taken-for-granted social groupings, such as "woman" and, more recently, "gay" and "transgender," that are assumed to be globally relevant. Critical approaches to gender and sexuality challenge conventional "born this way" narratives about gender and sexual identities as innate and therefore universal. This course will raise questions that will make us uncomfortable and, hopefully, give us tools to critically reflect on our own gender and sexuality identities and practices.

Class Attributes

WCAS College Seminar