CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND SEXU- ALITY

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This course will explore gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural per- spective by introducing students to classic and contemporary research on gender and sexuality in the sub-field of feminist anthropology. Read- ings will focus on debates around cultural relativism and human rights, and Western and transnational feminisms. Some of the issues that will be discussed include femininities and masculinities, identity, personhood, kinship, the body, reproduction, women’s rights, activism, and intersex and transgender identities. ANTH 309 – CRITICAL FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES From an anthropological feminist perspective, this course examines how power simultaneously functions on the site of the ‘body’ or self, and in race, gender, class and sexual meanings and struggles, and sustained through (settler) colonial and imperial formations. This course aims to foster critical dialogues about how race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of difference shape the everyday world, and to consider how the spatial terrains inform fugitivity and spaces of refusal in which Black, indigenous, and racialized others construct and imagine.