MAIS 628

Overview

MAIS 628: Gender and Sexuality introduces students to the theories and empirical research that form the backbone of gender and sexuality studies. The course directly challenges the sociopolitical imperative that there are but two biological sexes and that heterosexual desire and practice are the norms against which all other desires and practices are measured and found to be “deviant.” The course invites a critical examination of the two-sex binary order and the ways in which this order is reproduced but also resisted through feminine, masculine, queer, and trans performances of identity. It also pays attention to the intersections of gender and sexuality with other social identities such as race and (dis)ability.