WGST 3703 Gender and Race: The Changing Face of Workplace Politics
This course will explore how categories of social difference – such as gender, class, sexuality, race, and ability – influence identities and processes within work environments. We aim to understand social differences not as individual traits but as social processes that are reproduced and challenged in the workplace. A key principle of this course is that workplaces, alongside reflecting ruling relations, also serve as sites where these relations are reproduced. We will examine how gender and race-based ruling relations are maintained in modern workplaces and suggest ways to challenge normalizing discourses that reinforce social hierarchies.