Gender and Performance
WOMGEN 1133
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Description
How does performance shape gender—especially as it intersects with race and sexuality? And how can gendered performances change the world, creating a new future? “Gender and Performance” engages different—and often conflicting—perspectives to answer these questions. In the first half of the course, we encounter concepts and theoretical tools that enable us to look anew at familiar performances (including those in media, sports, religious and secular rituals, theatre, activism, and our everyday self-presentation). In the second half, we examine activist performances from across a political spectrum. We ask, what forms of performance-based activism are effective, and why?
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Women, Gender & Sexuality
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
Women, Gender & Sexuality
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
