Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory
Explores classic and current feminist theories, asking questions about knowledge, subjectivity, sexuality, and ethics.
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Graduate Topics in Gender Studies: US LGBT/Queer History
This seminar examines the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples in the United States during the post-bellum era. Although the history of the emergence of dissident sexual and gender identity categories during the modern period will be emphasized to a considerable degree, we will also consider historical instances of same-sex sexual behavior and gender non-conformity that predate the coalescence of such categories, or that transpired alongside them, often in accordance with logics of social and cultural difference that are unlike the logics of social and cultural difference that tend to organize our understanding of such phenomena today.
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Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century
Examines the cultural and political implications of sexuality's emergence as a public discourse during the twentieth century. Specifically, it examines certain limit cases in which the ostensibly private matters of sexual behavior and sexual identity have given rise to very public controversies about the cultural and political values of society at large.
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Gender, Medicine, and the Body
Examines topical themes related to medicine and the body as they interact with gender.
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