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MALS 552 - Power and Performance: Gender and Sexuality in the Contemporary United States

3.00 credit hours
Examines gender and sexuality in contemporary United States society, occasionally using international examples for comparison. Reviews theories of the social construction of gender and sexuality; the role of socialization in reproducing expectations of how one performs gender and sexuality; the function gender and sexuality plays in negotiating power and inequality in social institutions such as the family, work, policy and media systems; and the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity and class.


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