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This course takes as axiomatic that gender is not a natural or biological given, but a culturally constructed set of possibilities for human bodies and sets out to explore the different gender expressions of artists from a variety of places and times. How do artists employ gendered conventions and expand or subvert our conceptions of what masculinity and femininity mean in any given culture or period? How do the shape-shifting forces of race, nation, class, sexuality, and disability, intersect with artistic formations of gender? Students of this course will gain a better understanding of how art represents the harms and constraints of gender, as well as its possibilities for play, imagination, and self-expression.