Our ideas of what it means to be a man and a woman organize our lives in important and complex ways.  For the most part, patterns of gender remain unnoticed and taken for granted.  It is the job of sociology to examine and analyze these taken for granted forms of social organization so that we gain a complex and informed conception of ourselves and others.  This course provides students with the tools to critically examine how gender and sexuality structure our daily lives.  In doing so, students should leave the class with tools that allow them to help build a moral and just society based on more equitable gender and sexual relations.