SEX, GENDER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE in Fall 2018 (GS1091FB10)

How do sex and gender influence our understanding and experience of society? How do they inform questions of social justice? This FirstBridge class will examine multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on sex and gender. From this perspective, students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary analysis of systemic aspects of exploitation, violence and persecution and the ways in which these systems of oppression are reflected on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels. We will also consider and compare culturally specific strategies of resistance to systemic sexual and gender-based oppression.