Histories of Modern U.S. Gender and Sexuality
AMST 237
Spring 2018
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 237 |
| Course Cluster: Education Studies Minor, Queer Studies |
This course will explore constructions of U.S. gender and sexuality from the late 19th century to the present. We will consider ideologies of gender and sexuality as social, political, economic, and biomedical systems, as well as lived, material realities. Particular attention will be paid to intersectional politics, by interrogating how categories such as race, class, disability, and national identity operate in relation to gender and sexual politics. Topics covered will include: the scientific "invention" of hetero- and homosexuality; anti-miscegenation law; gender-based immigration regulations; ideas of normative domesticity and kinship; labor patterns and gender-based disparities; gender- and sexuality-based rights' movements, including first, second, and third wave feminisms and LGBTQIA liberation; and reproductive technologies and rights. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (EDST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from these and other texts:
Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
Rachel Maines, Technology of the Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the US
Natalia Molina, Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in San Francisco, 1879-1940
Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren, eds., Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
Michelle Murphy, Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
Mai Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty
Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
Rickie Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
Siobhan Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality
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Examinations and Assignments:
Moodle posts, 20%; In-class midterm, 25%; Participation, 25%; Final essay, 30%. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Attendance |
| Instructor(s): Glick,Megan H. Times: ..T.R.. 08:50AM-10:10AM; Location: FISK208; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 35 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 12 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 12 | FR: 0 |
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