Gender and Intersectionality
Explore the intersection of gender with religion, class, race, sexuality, nationalism, and equality. This course offers a comprehensive understanding of gender studies, using literature, popular culture, and public discourse as examples. Discover how gender is portrayed in various forms of art and media, and learn to view it as a spectrum. Ideal for beginners or those looking to refresh their knowledge, this visually engaging course provides a range of resources including literature, articles, images, audio, websites, and visual texts. Analyze religious texts, class divisions, racial inequality, sexualities, and nationalism through a gendered lens. Adapted from a University of Iceland undergraduate course.
What you will learn
- Identify ways gender intersects with religion, class, race, sexuality, nationalism and equality.
- Discuss gender in literature, popular culture, and public discourse.
- Understand how gender is prescribed in literature, music, art, and public discourse.
- See gender itself as a spectrum rather than a monolith. Humanities, Social Sciences
Program Overview
Understanding how gender intersects with various cultural and social concepts is not only essential to understanding gender studies as a scientific discipline, it is also an important part of moving through and experiencing the world as a human being. Understanding gender and intersectionality can help us understand ourselves and the world and culture we live in. This course offers an excellent starting point for anyone coming to gender studies for the first time, or for those already in the field who wish to brush up on the basics through a more visual experience. The course will offer different resources in the form of literature, articles, images, audio, websites, and visual texts about gender in many different contexts. Specifically using examples from popular culture, classical literature, and history, this course will teach you how to analyze religious texts and traditions, class divisions, racial inequality, sexualities, and nationalism through a gendered lens. The course is adapted from a semester length undergraduate level course taught at the University of Iceland.
