Program Description
Students will examine how social constructions of gender shape the consciousness and lives of women and men of various races, ethnicities, classes and sexualities. They will explore diverse women’s histories, intellectual contributions and perspectives.
Employing methodological tools from a wide range of disciplines, students will scrutinize gender in relation to institutions, ideologies, histories, cultural artifacts, social interactions, science, bodies and cultures. The focus is on the transnational feminist exploration of the ways gender intersects with different variables to produce the complexity of women’s and men’s lived experience. The courses are open to all students at Brock University, allowing them to explore the ways gendered experience is produced as a culturally variable and historically contingent category.
