GSS400F
Gender and Material Culture
Subject code
GSS
Course Number
400F
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
M. Plastas
Course Long Title
Gender and Material Culture
Description
This intensive reading junior/senior seminar explores material culture and the production of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. It examines how identities, circuits of power, and value are constructed and negotiated through commodity culture and capitalism. It considers how objects like hoodies, cigarettes, and vanity license plates come to have meaning, and asks what role material culture plays in expressions of pain, pleasure, grief, and resilience. Prerequisite(s): five courses in gender and sexuality studies.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
INDS Program Relationship
IDGS - GSS Program
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years