Gender, Sex, Sexuality and Science
Women's and Gender Studies · 1.5 hrs Lecture | 1.5 hrs Seminar/Discussion
Offered: Fall and Winter Both
WGS-3003 prerequisites
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Description
This course raises feminist questions about how science and scientists address concepts of gender, sex and sexuality. Using anti-racist, decolonial and intersectional approaches, we investigate how concepts of human gender, sex, and sexuality have been constructed. More specifically, how biology has been invented and is understood by science and the medical profession. We examine the various outcomes and repercussions of these narratives for people across the gender spectrum. We address the ways in which these perceptions of biology, sex, gender and sexuality may influence people's lives and investigate various strategies currently used to challenge problematic and erroneous attitudes and practices.
Requisite courses
WGS-1232 or the former WGS-2301 or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].
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