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Dekalb, Illinois

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ANTH 568

Anthropology of Gender

Survey of current theory and research on gender, sexuality, and representations of the body. Examination of debates about the significance of gender and sex in primate and human evolution, physical anthropology, and sociobiology. In seminar format, students also explore cross-cultural notions of gender and analyze the intersection of race/class/gender and the historical construction of sexuality and conceptions about the body in the sciences, the arts, ethnography, and popular culture

Units: 3.0