Sex, Money, and Power: Anthropology of Intimacy and Exchange
ANTH 203
Fall 2017
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 223, AMST 228 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
Sex and money--intimacy and economy--are often imagined to occupy distinct and separate spheres. Sex and intimacy are located in the private or domestic realm, in spaces of leisure, feelings, care, and personal connections. Money and economy, on the other hand, are purportedly public, located in the market and tied to labor, rationality, and impersonal (non)-relations. This course brings these spheres together, focusing on the links, exchanges, and circuits between the intimate and the economic in diverse cultural contexts across the Americas. 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. We will be centrally concerned with the relationship between economic, cultural, and political formations and with the differences race, ethnicity, nation, class, gender, and sexuality make. Throughout, we will ask, How do practices and bodies accrue value? When are intimacies--sexual and social--commoditized? How have transnational flows complicated relationships between sex and money? How do these intersections constrain and/or empower people? And, finally, who benefits from such arrangements, and who does not? |
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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
TBD, drawn from:
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
Greg Mitchell, Tourist Attractions: Performing Race And Masculinity In Brazil's Sexual Economy
Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, And The Commerce Of Sex
Katherine Frank, G-Strings And Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars And Male Desire
Alexandra Chasin, Selling Out: The Gay And Lesbian Movement Goes To Market
Silvia Federici, Revolution At Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, And Feminist Struggle
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Examinations and Assignments:
short memos; class discussion; final paper/project |
| Instructor(s): Weiss,Margot Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: PAC004; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 35 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 15 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 19 | 1st Ranked: 6 | 2nd Ranked: 3 | 3rd Ranked: 5 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 4 |
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