A gender neutral bathroom. (Image courtesy of Kaldari. Source: Wikimedia Commons. This image is in the public domain.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
MIT Course Number
21H.983
As Taught In
Spring 2017
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems.