Gender Studies

68 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;...
Gender Studies Social Sciences Sociology
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 Social Sciences Sociology
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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 Gender Studies
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...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Health, and Society
Dr. Brittany Charlton
This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender...
Gender Studies Health & Medicine Immunology
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Gender Studies Humanities International Development
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Anthropology Economics Gender Studies
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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 Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
How does one writer use another writer’s work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Gender Studies International Development Political Science
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...
Engineering Gender Studies History
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 Social Sciences
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Gender Studies Health & Medicine Mental Health
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gender
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Power, Leadership, and the Workplace
Dr. Mindy Fried
This course will provide students with an analytic framework to understand the roles that gender, race, and class...
Business & Management Gender Studies Organizations & Leadership
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 Gender Studies International Development
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies History
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...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture 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...
Education & Teaching Gender Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies History
intermediate
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies Humanities
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Communication Gender Studies
intermediate
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 Gender Studies Humanities
advanced
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...
Biology Climate Science Earth Science
advanced
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Gender Studies Policy and Administration Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers
Prof. James Cain
This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies Social Sciences
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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 Social Sciences
advanced
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...
Climate Science Earth Science Energy, Climate & Sustainability
intermediate
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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 Social Sciences Sociology
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...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies
advanced
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 Social Sciences
intermediate
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...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Major Authors: Melville and Morrison
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni...
Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies Humanities
intermediate
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,...
Anthropology Gender Studies History
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...
Anthropology Gender Studies Political Science
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
intermediate
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...
Anthropology Economics Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Vocal Repertoire and Performance: Women Composers
Ms. Pamela Wood
This course is for the singer and/or pianist interested in collaborative study of solo vocal performance. This term...
Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies Humanities
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...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Gender Studies Health & Medicine Public Health
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
International Women's Voices
Prof. Margery Resnick
International Women’s Voices has several objectives. It introduces students to a variety of works by contemporary...
Gender Studies Humanities Literature
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...
Gender Studies History Humanities
intermediate
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 Social Sciences Sociology
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