Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
ANTH 322
Spring 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 320, FGSS 322 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
This course explores the politics of gender and sexuality within a variety of nationalist contexts, including cultural nationalisms in the United States and histories of resistance with a focus on the role of women in nationalist struggles. Beginning with a historical exploration of women and colonialism, we will also examine how colonial processes, along with other forms of domination that include racializing technologies, have transformed gender and sexuality through the imposition of definitions of proper sexual behavior, preoccupations with sexual deviance, sexual expression as a territory to be conquered, legacies of control, legal codification, and commodification. We will then assess how diverse modes of self-determination struggles negotiate differences from within with regard to gender and sexual politics. This part of the course will examine feminist interventions in nationalist productions that sustain masculinist and homophobic agendas. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST) |
Major Readings:
M. Jacqui Alexander, PEDAGOGIES OF CROSSING
Eileen J. Suarez Findlay, IMPOSING DECENCY: THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY AND RACE IN PUERTO RICO, 1870-1920
Anne McClintock, IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT
Benita Roth, SEPARATE ROADS TO FEMINISM: BLACK, CHICANA, AND WHITE FEMINIST MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA'S SECOND WAVE
Tara L. Atluri, WHEN THE CLOSET IS A REGION: HOMOPHOBIA, HETEROSEXISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN
Ty Kawika Tengan, NATIVE MEN REMADE: GENDER AND NATION IN CONTEMPORARY HAWAI'I
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students are required to produce weekly response papers about the assigned readings as well as additional homework assignments. There is also a 20 page research paper. The course is writing intensive and robust verbal participation in seminar is expected. |
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