Gender Studies

62 resources

MIT OCW
free
Feminist Thought
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
This course analyzes theories of gender and politics, especially ideologies of gender and their construction;...
Sociology Gender Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
This course offers an introduction to women’s and gender studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores...
Gender Studies Sociology Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United States
Prof. Caley Horan
This course provides an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Psychology of Gender
Prof. Phoebe Kazdin Schnitzer
We will examine current research and theory regarding the validity and utility of commonly accepted gender...
Gender Studies Psychology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
Mitali Thakor
This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its...
Anthropology Economics Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family
Prof. Heather Paxson
Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of...
Humanities History Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Technology
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course considers a wide range of issues related to the contemporary and historical use of technology, the...
History Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science of Race, Sex, and Gender
Abha Sur Abha Sur
This course examines the role of science and medicine in the origins and evolution of concepts of race, sex, and...
Humanities History Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Women and Global Activism in Art, Media and Politics
Abha Sur Abha Sur
This course explores theoretical issues and concerns underlying global feminisms, and their expression through...
Sociology Gender Studies International Development
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and the Law in U.S. History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
This subject explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system. It examines how women have shaped...
History Gender Studies Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the...
International Development Gender Studies Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Japanese Popular Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of...
Media Studies Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Queer Cinema and Visual Culture
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts...
Visual Arts History Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to...
History Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Health and Marginalization Through a Critical Feminist Lens
Prof. Chris Bobel
In the course we will use a feminist interdisciplinary lens and invite students to look critically at how practices...
Sociology Mental Health Public Health
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America
Prof. Judith Tick
This subject investigates the special relation of women to several musical folk traditions in the British Isles and...
Art, Design & Architecture Sociology Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Women's Novels: A Weekly Book Club
Faye Kasemset
This pass/fail seminar should be a fun setting where we can all enjoy a love of good books together. Students will...
Literature Gender Studies Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History of Women in Science and Engineering
Maia Weinstock
This course provides a basic overview of the history of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
History Engineering Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Sexuality, and Society
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course seeks to examine how people experience gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - and sexuality in...
Anthropology Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
New Culture of Gender: Queer France
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new...
Media Studies Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
Prof. Edmund Bertschinger
This subject examines the role scientists have played as activists in social movements in the U.S. following World...
Sociology Climate Science Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Current Debates in Media
Dr. Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin
This class addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of popular perceptions and policy...
Sociology Media Studies Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This course studies the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public...
Economics Law Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Power, Leadership and the Workplace
Dr. Elena Mendez Escobar
The course will focus primarily on contemporary discourses concerning gender inequality. Most of the readings...
Gender Studies Organizations & Leadership Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Authors: American Women Authors
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women’s Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the...
Literature Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?
Prof. Erica James
This course is an introduction to the cross-cultural study of biomedical ethics, examining moral foundations of the...
Humanities Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender: Historical Perspectives
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how...
History Anthropology Gender Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gender
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how...
Sociology History Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Gender in American History
Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald
This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics...
Sociology Humanities History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture
Prof. Leonard Buckle
Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the...
Gender Studies Law Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Economic History of Work and Family
Prof. Anne McCants
This course will explore the relation of women and men in both pre-industrial and modern societies to the changing...
History Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reading Cookbooks: from The Forme of Cury to The Smitten Kitchen
Ina Lipkowitz
In this course students will visit the past through cookbooks to learn about what foodstuffs and technologies were...
History Literature Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Power, and International Development
Prof. Christine Walley
After decades of efforts to promote development, why is there so much poverty in the world? What are some of the...
Sociology Anthropology Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Black Feminist Health Science Studies
Dr. Moya Bailey
Black feminist health science studies is a critical intervention into a number of intersecting arenas of scholarship...
Sociology Gender Studies Public Health
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gendering U.S. Immigration Policy: Sociopolitical, Theological and Feminist Perspectives
Dr. Choi Hee An
This course uses theories of gender to explore sociopolitical, ethical and theological perspectives on immigration...
Policy and Administration Gender Studies Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film
Dr. Emily Fox-Kales
Using film and related popular media as our texts, this course will examine how screen “embodiments” of the woman...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Poetry: Gender and Lyric -- Renaissance Men and Women Writing about Love
Prof. Mary Fuller
The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English love sonnets written by William Shakespeare, Philip...
Sociology Literature Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment
Prof. Peter Taylor
What can we learn about science and technology–and what can we do with that knowledge? Who are “we” in these...
Gender Studies Sociology Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography
Melissa Blanco
This course explores the forms, contents, and context of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in...
Art, Design & Architecture Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Social Theory and Practice: Race and Racism
Prof. Sally Haslanger
Courses in the Topics in Social Theory and Practice series feature in-depth considerations of such topics with...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Changing Life: Reading the Intersections of Gender, Race, Biology, and Literature
Prof. Mary Baine Campbell
In this course, students will develop their abilities to expose ways that scientific knowledge has been shaped in...
Gender Studies Biology Earth Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Writing Early American Lives: Gender, Race, Nation, Faith
Prof. Mary Fuller
This course focuses on the period between roughly 1550-1850. American ideas of race had taken on a certain shape by...
Literature Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Passing: Flexibility in Race and Gender
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon
This course is primarily a literature seminar. We will use American literature as a lens through which to examine...
Literature Gender Studies Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Identity and Difference
Prof. Jean Jackson
This course explores how identities, whether of individuals or groups, are produced, maintained, and transformed....
Anthropology Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Race and Identity in American Literature: Keepin' it Real Fake
Prof. Sandy Alexandre
This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable...
Literature Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Conversations You Can't Have on Campus: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity
Tobie Weiner
What is race? What is ethnicity? How can communication and relationships between men and women be improved? What...
Sociology Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Representation of Asian Women
Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger
This course explores stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and...
Sociology Gender Studies Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Women in South Asia from 1800 to Present
Prof. Haimanti Roy
This course is designed to introduce and help students understand the changes and continuities in the lives of women...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Race, and the Construction of the American West
Prof. Karen V Hansen
This course explores how gender shaped the historical experiences and cultural productions in the North American...
Humanities History Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Race and Gender in Asian America
Prof. Emma J. Teng
In this seminar we will examine various issues related to the intersection of race and gender in Asian America,...
History Sociology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Women and War in the 20th Century
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This seminar examines women’s experiences during and after war, revolution, and genocide. The focus of the course is...
History Gender Studies Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship
Prof. Renee Bergland
This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry across a range of disciplines. Feminist research...
Gender Studies Sociology Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gender Issues in Academics and Academia
Dr. Holly Sweet
Does it matter in education whether or not you’ve got a Y chromosome? You bet it does. In this discussion-based...
Gender Studies Sociology Social Sciences
intermediate
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University Of Hong Kong Doing Gender And Why It Matters
Gender Studies
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University Of British Columbia Gender And Sexuality Applications In Society
Gender Studies
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Universidad Del Rosario Genero Y Sexualidad Bases Conceptuales Y Perspectivas Criticas
Gender Studies
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The University Of Iceland Gender Violence And Post Conflict States
Gender Studies
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The University Of Iceland Gender And Intersectionality
Gender Studies
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The University Of Iceland Gender And Development Critical Theories And Approaches
Gender Studies
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Stanford University Health Across The Gender Spectrum
Gender Studies
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Discursos Visuales Analisis De Imagenes Digitales Con Contexto De Genero
Gender Studies
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American Psychological Association Gender And Sexuality
Gender Studies