Study of Women and Gender 302 - SEMINAR: INTIMACIES

While scholarship on contemporary American society often emphasizes how distracted and disconnected we are, it can also be argued that we have developed new ways of connecting, generating intimacies that challenge, exceed or swerve from traditional categorizations (e.g. sexual, familial). What are the queer and feminist resonances of these modes of intimacy? How has new media and technology helped to generate and proliferate new forms of intimacy? Topics include the use of social media, contemporary pornographies, intimacies across time and the queering of the genre of the "buddy"/road movie. Prerequisite: SWG 150 and at least one additional SWG course. Enrollment limited to 12. (E)

Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores