Study of Women and Gender 200 - THE QUEER 90'S

This course examines the emergence of queer studies during the early 1990's and explores the shape the decade takes through analyses of politics and popular culture. The Queer '90s historically situates queer studies within the Clinton era-amid the AIDS crisis, the backlash against identity politics and conservative attacks against the National endowments of the Arts. By reading queer theories alongside 1990s era queer independent films, music, science fiction and the mainstream media that represent queer bodies and sexualities, this course contends with the subversive popular culture and the duplicitous political climate that makes the 90s so queer. Prerequisite: SWG 150.