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Anthropology (ANTH) 375

The Anthropology of Gender (Revision 3)

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Delivery Mode:Individualized study.

Credits:3

Area of Study:Social Science

Prerequisite:ANTH 275, or SOCI 287 or WGST 270 or an equivalent course from another institution.

Centre:Centre for Work and Community Studies

ANTH 375 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

This course explores gender as it affects anthropological research conducted by male and female ethnographers, primatologists, physical anthropologists and evolutionary biologists. Next, we consider various topics that expose the constructed nature of gender, and discuss the contexts within which gender is built, acted out and changed. We end the course with a discussion of gender in the context of globalization.

Outline

Unit 1: Engendering Fieldwork

Unit 2: Biology, Culture and the Production of Gender

Unit 3: Gender and Work

Unit 4: The Work of Gender

Unit 5: Gender, Healing and Religion

Unit 6: Gender Identities and Sexuality

Unit 7: Colonialism, Globalization and Gender

Evaluation

To receive credit for ANTH 375, you must obtain at least 50 per cent on each TMA and on the final examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

TMA 1 Response Paper	TMA 2 Exam	TMA 3 Research Paper	TMA 4 Ethnography Review	Final Exam	Total
15%	15%	20%	25%	25%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Brettell, Caroline B., and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 2005. Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Nanda, Serena. 1999. Neither Man Nor Woman, 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Ward, Martha, and Monica Edelstein. 2006. A World Full of Women, 4th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

Other materials

The course materials also include a student manual, study guide and a reading file.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 3, December 5, 2007.