WGS 201 — Intercultural Gender Studies
Examines the power structures related to women, men, and across the gender spectrum in developing countries, using foundational understandings of patriarchy, oppression, gender bias, and the social construction of gender. Explores intersectionality and the reality that it is often the complex interaction of various factors including sex, gender, race, socio-economic-status, and sexual preference that contribute to power dynamics across societies. Includes the following topics: the process of gender enculturation, male preference, sexual violence, female circumcision, infanticide, child brides and honor/ dowry deaths, economic empowerment, education, ethnocentrism, advocacy, literacy, trafficking and prostitution.
Prerequisites: WR 121, WR 121Z