Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
American University of Rome Summer School
Course Title:
GENDER IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Course Number:
SOC 210
Course Description:
This course examines the role of gender in different societies and helps to understand gendered dimensions of economic and social inequality, stratification, oppression, and power in global perspectives. Questions regarding sex and gender are going to be discussed in the context of complex social phenomena such as sex trafficking, pay-gap, machismo, immigration, development, poverty, marriage, and politics. Concepts such as democracy, human rights, freedom, emancipation, equality, and oppression are going to be critically evaluated through the careful analysis of gendered practices around the world. The construction of both masculinity and femininity is going to be addressed and investigated in comparative,
cross-national perspectives. Case studies will help to approach gender in-context and from a cultural relativist perspective.
Pre-requisites: 100 level course on sociology, anthropology, international relations, political science or permission of the instructor.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
WMST 100
Attachment Files:
SOC210.pdf
