Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

AMS maintains a strong relationship with the program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. This summer we will cross-list two courses taught by our graduate students in WGSS. Milton Wendland will offer Lesbian and Gay Cultures in the U.S. at the Edwards campus- click the flyer above for more. Back in Lawrence, Chris Robinson will offer Gender in American Popular Music. Chris says:

This course will examine the importance of, and the roles that gender, femininity and masculinity have played in shaping numerous aspects of 20th Century American popular music. We will study gender in relation to hip hop and rap, rock, country music, jazz, blues, and other genres. Central to this course will be how gender roles and perceptions are socially constructed and perpetuated in American culture. The intersectionality of race and gender will also play a central part in this course. This course will also place gender, masculinity and femininity in social and historical context. Power, politics and economics also play crucial roles in shaping the discourse surrounding musicians, their music, and American cultural conceptions of gender. This interdisciplinary course will draw on methods, disciplines and approaches including history, musicology, gender and race theory, English, African American Studies, Jazz Studies, semiotics and material culture studies.

Both courses are listed as AMS 344.