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    Sexual and Gender Identities

    Sexual and Gender Identities

    This course offers an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. It begins with an overview of historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. The remainder of the course flows chronologically, tracing the expanding and contracting nature of attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities, as well as the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Sex United States Social conditions Gender identity
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    Courseware
     
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    For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

    For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

    Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, gender, and sexuality. We will explores the myriad forms that families and households take and considers their social, emotional, and economic dynamics.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Sex Families Gender identity
    Resource Type:
    Courseware