Instructor: Lindsey Raisa Feldman
Mon/Weds | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | In Person
Fall 2025
This Special Topics course examines the intersection of gender, sex, sexuality, and health. Students will read and discuss literature from across the social sciences, with an emphasis on ethnographic and cross-cultural texts. Throughout the semester we will critically unpack differences between gender, sex, and sexuality, and how, both separately and together, these subjectivities contribute to differences in the lived experience of health, healthcare access, and wellbeing. We will apply key theoretical frameworks of gender and sexuality to topics such as the history of women’s health; sexual differentiation; select diseases and illnesses seen through a gendered lens; how poverty, race, and discrimination play a role in people’s gendered well-being; masculine practices in health care seeking; and how the social (gender) can become biological (sex). The course aims to foster the development of a nuanced and critical approach to gender and sexuality as it is experienced in, and produced by, healthcare systems around the world.