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A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World
Online
4 WeeksQuick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 1300 | yes | University of Glasgow, Glasgow |
The Syllabus
- How a gendered and sexual approach alters our understanding of the past
- Patriarchal and heteronormative power and its historical operation and resistance
- Men, masculinities, and #MeToo
- The sex and gender binary and beyond
- New trans historical and philosophical approaches
- How our bodies and their desires have been understood and regulated in the past
- Complicating narratives of nineteenth-century sexual ‘repression’ and 1960s sexual ‘liberation’
- Sex, Race, and Empire
- Queer stories from history
- Movements for reproductive rights and justice
- Feminist (re)definitions of work and care
- Gender inequality in pay and conditions
- Equal pay struggles in history and across the globe, including the 1975 ‘Women’s Day Off’ in Iceland
- The historical provision of care, parenting, and ‘blended families’
- Gender history and material culture
- Diverse historical and global understandings of feminism
- Intersectionality, feminist activism, and identities of race, class, sexual orientation and disability
- Gendered citizenship, political rights, and transnational suffrage activism
- Cultural forms of feminist politics