| Course Title: Special Topics in Sociology: 'Families, Kinship, and Sexuality' |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: How do family and kinship shape our social lives? In turn, how are family and kinship shaped by social and historical contexts? We all come to this course with individual experiences of family, kinship, and sexuality, but this course will ask you to critically engage with these concepts from a sociological perspective. In this course we will both define and use an intersectional lens to understand how class, race-ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship mutually shape our individual and collective experiences of family and kinship. We will consider family as a site for reproducing inequality and violence, but also as a site for resistance, revolution, and home. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Samantha Leonard | sleonard@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 08:30AM - 09:45AM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 216 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: SOCI-123. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 27 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Author: Collins, Caitlyn Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780691202402 Publisher: Princeton University Press |
Recommended | 17.95 |
| Title: Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family Author: Enriquez, Laura E. Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780520344358 Publisher: University of California Press |
Recommended | 29.95 |
| Title: Just Get on the Pill The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics Author: Littlejohn, Krystale E. Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780520307452 Publisher: University of California Press |
Recommended | 24.95 |
| Title: Invisible Families Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Blac Author: Moore, Mignon Copyright: 2011 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780520269521 Publisher: University of California Press |
Recommended | 29.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |