Regulating Intimacy: Secularism, Sovereignty, Citizenship
FGSS 225
Spring 2013
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01
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| Crosslisting:
RELI 481 |
Secularism is routinely defined as the relegation of religion to the private sphere, separate from public politics. Similarly, in secular-liberal societies, sexuality is in principal a private affair, beyond the purview of state interference. Indeed, secularism has come to be seen as the form of political rule that liberates women's sexuality from the clutches of religion, and from Islam in particular. Yet the secular-modern nation-state--in its colonial and post-colonial iterations--has also consistently regulated sex and religion, witnessed in the policing of "native," immigrant, and queer sexualities, in the construction of the family as a separate legal and moral domain, and in the surveillance and transformation of minority religious communities. Drawing on feminist, anthropological, and historical scholarship, this course critically examines the distinction between public and private central to state sovereignty and to the formation of modern, secular, sexually "normal" citizens. First examining the regulation of sexuality and of religion as parallel phenomena, the course ultimately asks what the relationship is between "proper" religion and "proper" sexuality in secular state formations. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| 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
Hussein Agrama, QUESTIONING SECULARISM: ISLAM, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RULE OF LAW IN MODERN EGYPT
Elizabeth Povinelli, THE EMPIRE OF LOVE
Laurent Berlant, THE QUEEN OF AMERICAN GOES TO WASHINGTON CITY
Michel Foucault, THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, VOLUME 1
Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini, LOVE THE SIN: SEXUAL REGULATION AND THE LIMITS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
Philippa Levine, PROSTITUTION, RACE, AND POLITICS: POLICING VENEREAL DISEASE IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Eithne LuibhÊid, ENTRY DENIED: CONTROLLING SEXUALITY AT THE BORDER
Judith Surkis, SEXING THE CITIZEN: MORALITY AND MASCULINITY IN FRANCE, 1870-1920
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Religion Department "Thematic Approach" major requirement. |
| Instructor(s): Fernando,Mayanthi Leilani Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: ALLB103; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: X | FR: X |
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