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22 de ene. de 2024 · The three-course civilization sequence focuses on bodies, sex, and gender by introducing concepts in feminist, gender, and queer theory and will use feminist and queer critique to frame analyses of power, desire, and sexuality.
This two-quarter sequence aims to expand students’ exposure to an array of texts—theoretical, historical, religious, literary, visual—that address the fundamental place of gender and sexuality in the social, political, and cultural creations of different civilizations.
GNSE 15002. Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations I. 100 Units. The first quarter of the GNSE Civ sequence offers a historical examination of bodies, sex, and gender.
Historians at the University of Chicago see gender and sexuality as an essential analytic category for understanding social, cultural, and political change. Our research and teaching on the history of gender and sexuality reflects a variety of geographic and methodological perspectives.
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and student self-organization. It now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies.
In this class, we will draw on the knowledge gained in the first two quarters of the Gender and Sexuality in World Civilization sequence to explore queens, queenship, and the long history of people’s fascination with queens and royal women.
GNSE 15002. Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations I. 100 Units. The first quarter offers a theoretical framing unit that introduces concepts in feminist, gender, and queer theory, as well as two thematic clusters, “Kinship” and “Creativity and Cultural Knowledge.”
