Gender and Intersectionality

Understanding how gender intersects with various cultural and social concepts is not only essential to understanding gender studies as a scientific discipline, it is also an important part of moving through and experiencing the world as a human being. Understanding gender and intersectionality can help us understand ourselves and the world and culture we live in. This course offers an excellent starting point for anyone coming to gender studies for the first time, or for those already in the field who wish to brush up on the basics through a more visual experience. The course will offer different resources in the form of literature, articles, images, audio, websites, and visual texts about gender in many different contexts. Specifically using examples from popular culture, classical literature, and history, this course will teach you how to analyze religious texts and traditions, class divisions, racial inequality, sexualities, and nationalism through a gendered lens. The course is adapted from a semester length undergraduate level course taught at the University of Iceland.

What you'll learn

• By the end of course, you will be able to:
• Identify ways gender intersects with religion, class, race, sexuality, nationalism and equality.
• Discuss gender in literature, popular culture, and public discourse.
• Understand how gender is prescribed in literature, music, art, and public discourse.
• See gender itself as a spectrum rather than a monolith. Humanities, Social Sciences