Undergraduate

• Anth 230: Gender Across Cultures
  This course explores gender and sexuality from a global perspective.  Drawing on studies of women and men in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Native North America, we will explore the richness and diversity as well as the inequalities and privileges of women's and men’s lives and how these vary from culture to culture. Our exploration of gender across cultures leads us to examine, among other things, gender in prehistory, the relations between women and men, women and households, the creation and perpetuation of gender hierarchies, gender in a globalized world, and the cultural construction of sexuality and gender. We will study the contributions of feminist anthropology to raise questions concerning the gendered nature of power and the meaning of categories such as domestic, public, household, kinship, sexuality, woman and man.
• IDIS 482: Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality

Graduate

• Anth 505: Culture and Society
  This course provides an overview of contemporary issues and theories in socio-cultural anthropology.  We will study critical issues in several topical areas by first examining traditional approaches in each area and then studying their critiques and revisions, including recent critical work addressing the usefulness and boundedness of anthropological categories. The course will provide students with an introduction to a variety of approaches to sociological knowledge, to theories of subjectivity and power, and to the meaning of “culture” in a globalized world.
• Anth 620: Self, Identity and Agency
  This course explores the relation of individuals to society from an anthropological perspective, asking how individual actions and identities are constructed within a particular social reality.  Questions of structure and agency, self and subjectivity are important to understanding how individual subjects operate within a cultural milieu. To what extent do cultural actors have agency in the actions that they take?  How are subjects able to resist, elude or transform social conditions?  We will explore these questions and the possibilities of multiple subject positions, disidentifications, and mestiza consciousness.
• WOST 681i: International Feminisms
• WOST 681b: Contemporary Issues in Feminist Scholarship: Theorizing Genders and Sexualities

RESOURCES AND RECOMMENDED READING:

• Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Leiden: Brill Publishers)
• The Infography About The Infography: a site that provides excellent scholarly resources on a wide range of topics.
• Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. (Garland)
• The Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Charles Scribner’s Sons)
• Sexuality Research and Social Policy (http://nsrc.sfsu.edu)