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    Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

    Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

    This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Social classes Mass media sex United States Mass media race relations Mass media -- Social aspects
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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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    Poverty and Economic Security

    Poverty and Economic Security

    This course explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the United States, within a global context. It examines the impact of recent economic restructuring and globalization, and reviews the current debate about the fate of the middle class, sources of increasing inequality, and approaches to advancing economic opportunity and security. In this class, students will study the topic of poverty and economic security through the lens of the lived experience of Americans: individuals, families, and households; exploring the history, geography, and forces shaping the likelihood of being poor in America.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Economic security United States Poverty
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    Courseware