Intimate Histories: Black Women's Sexuality
AFAM 242
Spring 2020
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 242 |
Black feminist theory teaches us that African American women have historically confronted racism and sexism in addition to other forms of oppression. How has this experience shaped the sexual lives of everyday black women and famous figures? This course places the sexual at the center of African American women's history. It will examine how regimes of violence have intervened in black women's sexual freedom, from intimate bonds to reproduction to same-sex desire. It will cover black women's resistance to these regimes; to their sexual agency in diverse spaces from the plantation to the porn industry. This course will also tackle the enduring impact of the Jezebel stereotype in the history of black women's sexuality. Using primary and secondary sources, this class will fundamentally investigate the significance of African American women's sexual history in the histories of American sexual, racial, gender, and class politics. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AFAM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFAM)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from the following major texts:
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, SEXUALITY AND SLAVERY
Cynthia M. Blair, I'VE GOT TO MAKE MY LIVIN': BLACK WOMEN'S SEX-WORK IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY CHICAGO
Mirelle Miller-Young, A TASTE FOR BROWN SUGAR: BLACK WOMEN IN PORNOGRAPHY
Toni Morrison, THE BLUEST EYE
Deirdre Cooper Owens, MEDICAL BONDAGE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GYNECOLOGY
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reflections/analysis of readings. Random in-class debates. Final essay, no longer than 15 pages. |
| Instructor(s): Esty,Kaisha Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: FISK121; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 0 |
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