FS 014 PZ -Gender, Politics, and American Culture

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course explores linkages between gender, politics, and American culture. We will consider how gender is socially and culturally constructed and how gendered stereotypes shape, and are shaped by, political discourse, policy-making and pop culture. We will examine the ways in which gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation, and how these intersections affect attitudes, advocacy and institutions. We will investigate feminism as a political movement and cultural phenomenon. In so doing, we will tackle classic questions regarding the connections between descriptive and substantive representation, identity and ideology, and personal and political priorities.

Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.