2022-2023 Academic Catalog

May 16, 2024

2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 279 - Gender and Environmental Inequality

This capstone seminar explores the important yet often overlooked intersection of gender inequality and environmental harm. We will explore foundational perspectives from environmental sociology and the sociology of gender, building toward an intersectional understanding of how environmental threats that arise from toxic contamination and climate change disproportionately burden women and other marginalized populations. The course will also shed light on the gendered power dynamics of environmental social movements, environmental risk management as gendered labor, how the reproductive health and justice movement has tackled issues of environmental contamination, and the gendered nature of environmental activism and pro-environmental behavior more broadly. Throughout the course, we will explore how a feminist lens can help lead us to more equitable approaches to the theory and practice of environmental protection.

Prerequisites: SOC 110 OR SOC 205 OR SOC 208

Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically