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This course examines gender and gender relations as they are performed in spectacular and mundane settings. Gender is a key organizing category globally, though people’s experiences and ideas about what gender is and does vary dramatically across cultural and historical contexts. Drawing on anthropology, feminist studies, and performance studies scholarship, we will investigate how people do gender and what gender does in our cultural imaginaries. This interdisciplinary perspective seeks to show how culture and society shapes gender, how ideas about and experiences of gender are disseminated through performance, and how performances of gender affect culture and cultural meaning around the world.