Crime and Violence in the 20th-Century United States
CHUM 313
Fall 2005
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 340, HIST 340 |
This course addresses the modern relationship between sex, desire, criminal activity and the broader political consequences of conservative political interventions into sexual subcultures. Topics include: the marketing/censorship of persons and images of persons to a potentially desiring public; the historical emergence of women and juveniles as potentially exploitable persons, or victims, particularly liable to injury through their own desire or the desire of others; the transformation of criminal perversion from private vice to public threat; and the post-modern paradox of the family as a privatized realm that has the statutory protection of the state, but must be policed by it in the interests of a national sex/gender system. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Jane Gallop, FEMINIST ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
John Gerassi, THE BOYS OF BOISE
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, CITY OF EROS
James Kincaid, EROTIC INNOCENCE
Laura Kipnis, BOUND AND GAGGED
Catherine McKinnon, ONLY WORDS
Nadine Strossen, DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY
Adele Stan, ed. DEBATING SEXUAL CORRECTNESS
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers and a 15-20 pp. research paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students may count this in the queer studies concentration in AMST, and in the Gender and U.S. concentrations in the history department.
Students whose attempt to register fails should submit an enrollment request, but should not e-mail the professor. |
| Instructor(s): Potter,Claire B. Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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