| Over the past two decades scholarship on "gender" has challenged conventional academic wisdom regarding representations of culture, society, and the individual. Anthropology has furthered these debates by offering a significant reappraisal of "gender" --as concept, social relationship, and category of analysis. Anthropology's most important insights point to the cultural construction of gender as well as to the complexities of gender constructions. In this course we will pay attention to how various peoples (including ourselves), living at different times, have fashioned social distinctions based on gender, and how these distinctions have played a role in the organization of political, religious, economic, and ideological practices. |
