Thursday, August 16, 2012

Doing Gender



We're going to spend the first day thinking about definitions, a bit of a review of how gender has been thought about and what it means to think about gender as a social construct.

These first couple of readings may use many terms that are not yet part of your everyday vocabulary -- things like agency, relationality, essentialism, etc. What terms are giving you trouble? Which ones would you like to explore collectively?