AVC287
Gender and Visual Culture
Subject code
AVC
Course Number
287
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Rand
Course Long Title
Gender and Visual Culture
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course concerns gender in the making and viewing of visual culture, with emphasis on the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and the roles of visual culture in the construction of gendered identities. Topics include the use of the visual in artistic, political, and historical representations of gendered people; queer and trans genderings; the visualization of gender in relation to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age, sex, and sexuality; and matters of censorship, circulation, and resources that affect the cultural production of people oppressed and/or marginalized by sex and/or gender.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC]
Writing Credit
W2
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(Africana: Gender), (AVC: Race, Sexuality, Gender)
INDS Program Relationship
IDAM - AMST Program, IDGS - GSS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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