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Introduction
Deborah Holt, BS, MA
1. HUM210 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies - Course Goal, Description, Learning Topics & Outcomes
2. Women's and Gender's Studies as an Academic Discipline - Student Specific Content Learning Outcomes
3. “Why/What is Women’s and Gender’s Studies?”
MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-101-introduction-to-womens-and-gender-studies-fall-2014/instructor-insights/
4. Theorizing Lived Experiences
Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, and Laura Heston, Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, http://openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/
5. Identity Terms
6. Conceptualizing Structures of Power
7. Explanation of the Concept of Social Construction of Gender
Boundless, Boundless Sociology, http://oer2go.org/mods/en-boundless/www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/index.html
8. Gender and Biology
9. Sex on the Brain: Humans, like other mammals, exhibit sex differences in their brains and psychological traits. But what do they signify?
Kevin J. Mitchell, Ph.D., "Sex on the Brain" published by Aeon Magazine, https://aeon.co/essays/the-gender-wars-will-end-only-with-a-synthesis-of-research
10. Is Gender Socially Constructed? - Argument in Support of Social Constructionism
11. Argument that Gender is Not a Social Construct
This article was first published in The Irish Times on 04/04/2013. The article is reproduced here with the permission of The Irish Times and of the author Professor William Reville
12. Is Gender Socially Constructed? - Argues Time to Move Beyond "Gender Is Socially Constructed"
Michael Mascolo Ph.D. , https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/old-school-parenting-modern-day-families/201907/time-move-beyond-gender-is-socially-constructed
13. Is Gender Socially Constructed? - Argues There are 3 Fatal Flaws in the “Gender as a Social Construct" Position
Adam Groza & Benjamin Arbour, 3 Fatal Flaws in the “Gender as a Social Construct” Position, https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/3-fatal-flaws-in-the-gender-as-social-construct-position/
14. Gender Socialization
15. Gender Identity in Everyday Life
16. Gender Roles in the U.S.
17. The Cross-Cultural Perspective
18. Childhood Socialization
19. Adolescent Socialization
20. Gender Differences in Social Interaction
21. The Functionalist Perspective
22. The Conflict Perspective
23. Gender Stratification
24. Intersectionality - Student Specific Content Learning Outcomes
25. Intersectionality - The Feminist Perspective
26. Intersectionality
27. Binary Systems
28. Masculinities
29. Influence of Women - Student Specific Content Learning Outcomes
30. Feminist Movements
31. 19th Century Feminist Movements
32. Early to Late 20th Century Feminist Movements
33. Third Wave and Queer Feminist Movements
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