Sex, Money, and Power: Anthropology of Intimacy and Exchange
ANTH 203
Spring 2013 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 223 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
This course focuses on the dense exchanges between money and sex/intimacy in various cultural and historical contexts, from the normalized arrangement of sex/money in marriage to the stigmatized arrangement of sex/money in sex work. We will combine recent ethnographic explorations of the relationships between sex/intimacy and money/commodification with interdisciplinary analysis of capitalism, globalization, and neoliberalism. Case studies will be drawn from sex work and tourism; marketing and pornography; reproduction, domestic labor, transnational adoption; marriage; class and sexual lifestyle; labor and carework; the global market in organs and body parts; outsourced surrogacy; sex stores and commodities; and sexual activism and identity politics. Throughout, we will ask, How do practices or bodies gain value? How are intimacies--sexual and social--commoditized? Who benefits from such arrangements, and who does not? And, finally, how are transnational flows complicating relationships between sex and money in a variety of sites? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANTH)(CSCT)(FGSS)(HRAD-MN)(STS) |
Major Readings:
Lisa Rofel, DESIRING CHINA; Ara Wilson, INTIMATE ECONOMIES OF THAILAND; Katherine Frank, G-STRINGS AND SYMPATHY; Mark Padilla, CARIBBEAN PLEASURE INDUSTRY
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Examinations and Assignments:
reading response papers; final paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Readings are still under consideration; email me at mdweiss@wesleyan.edu if you would like the finalized list of course texts. |
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