Course Objectives
- Recognize the difference between gender and sexuality
- Recognize how masculinity relates to gender
- Understand the difference between social
constructionist theories of gender versus biological theories of gender
- Describe biology as a social construction
- Recognize that masculinity is not symmetrical to
femininity
- Ability to describe how masculinity is produced
through social institutions such as schools, military, prisons
- Ability to describe, compare, and analyze different
cultural systems of manhood
- Ability to describe how manhood is organized around
dominance
- Recognize how masculinity intersects with other axes
of power