Gender Studies 333BD - Rethinking the Sexual Body

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary feminist study of sexuality. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for students to consider histories of sexuality and race in the U.S. both in terms of theoretical frameworks within gender studies, and in terms of a range of sites where those theoretical approaches become material, are negotiated, or are shifted. The course is a fully interdisciplinary innovation. It will emphasize links rather than differences between theory and practice and between cultural, material, and historical approaches to the body, gender, and sexuality. Throughout the course we will consider contemporary sexual politics in light of the co-constitutive histories of racial and sexual formations in science and culture.

Prereq: Coursework in feminist, queer, critical race, and/or critical ethnic studies.