| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the study of family, sexuality and gender | |
| Part I: Concepts and Themes | ||
| 2 | Is sex to gender as nature is to culture? | Reader response 1 due |
| 3 | Cultural acquisition of gender as learned behavior | |
| Part II: Family, Sex, and Gender as Social Institutions | ||
| 4 | Ascribed status, arranged marriage, inheritance and gendered divisions of labor in pastoral and agrarian societies | |
| 5 | Achieved status, wage labor, and gendered divisions of labor in capitalist societies | Paper 1 topics handed out |
| 6 |
Gender, agency, and virtue Film: Beauty Academy of Kabul | |
| 7 | Social reproduction: Reproducing formal and informal class relations | Reader response 2 due |
| 8 | The racial economy of social reproduction | |
| 9 | Household dependencies | |
| 10 | Doing, undoing, redoing the gendered division of labor | Paper 1 due |
| 11 | The invention of sexuality-based identities | |
| Part III: Family and Kinship as Cultural Systems | ||
| 12 | Kinship | |
| 13 | De-essentializing the family | Reader response 3 due |
| 14 | Do Western sexual identities travel? | |
| 15 | Violence and agency | |
| 16 | De-essentializing motherhood | Paper 2 topics handed out |
| 17 | Circulation of children | |
| 18 | Implications of gender and kinship for conception and birth | |
| 19 | Implications of gender and kinship for conception and birth and for family planning | Paper 2 due |
| 20 | Viewing of the film The Pill | |
| 21 | Nationalism and gendered citizenship |
Reader response 4 due Paper proposal for final paper due |
| 22 | Reproductive technologies | |
| 23 | Rethinking relatedness | |
| 24 | Student presentations | |
| 25 | Student presentations (cont.) | Final paper due |
