| August 26 |
Introduction to the course
Read the syllabus carefully, buy the textbook, and browse through
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| August 28 |
The FaitSsocial of Gender
- Emile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method. (Source: J. Farganis,
Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 2)
- Sherry B. Ortner, Is female to male as nature is to culture?
(Reserve)Talcott Parsons, Age and Sex in the Social Structure
of the United States. (Source: Farganis, Readings in Social Theory.
Chapter 7, pp. 191-200.)
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| August 30 |
Performing Gender
- Judith Butler: Imitation and Gender Subordination (Reserve)
- Harold Garfinkel: Passing and the managed achievement of sex
status (Reserve)
- Tricia Rose, Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Black
Female Teenage Sexuality in the Popular Imagination.pp. 185-202
in Elizbeth Long (ed.), From Sociology to Cultural Studies. Blackwell.
(Reserve)
- Recommended: Sharon Hays, "The Ideology of Intensive Mothering,"
In Long, etc. (Reserve)
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