Sex, Money, and Power: Anthropology of Intimacy and Exchange
ANTH 203
Fall 2014
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 223 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
This course focuses on the 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 read recent ethnographic explorations of the relationships between sex/intimacy and money/commodification, alongside interdisciplinary analyses 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: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANTH)(CSCT)(FGSS)(HRAD-MN)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, DOMÉSTICA: IMMIGRANT WORKERS CLEANING AND CARING IN THE SHADOWS OF AFFLUENCE; Nicole Constable, ROMANCE ON A GLOBAL STAGE: PEN PALS, VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY, AND "MAIL ORDER" MARRIAGE; Patty Kelly, LYDIA'S OPEN DOOR: INSIDE MEXICO'S MOST MODERN BROTHEL; Jane Ward, RESPECTABLY QUEER: DIVERSITY CULTURE IN LGBT ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS; Margot Weiss, TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE: BDSM AND THE CIRCUITS OF SEXUALITY; Erica Lorraine Williams, SEX TOURISM IN BAHIA: AMBIGUOUS ENTANGLEMENTS
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Examinations and Assignments:
short response papers; final paper; class wiki |
| Instructor(s): Weiss,Margot Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK302; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 10 | FR: X |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 12 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 3 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 7 |
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