Sociology 323 - TOPC: GEN, SEX, SOC CH-CONSERV

Topics course. This course can be repeated once for credit with a different topic: This class focuses on challenges to and changes in gender and sexuality during conservative time periods.  Focusing on the U.S., we will primarily examine the 1980's and the contemporary period as case studies.  We will look how political and other institutions affect gender and sexuality, and at social movements addressing gender and sexuality from both the right and the left.  We will look at movements including queer, feminist, anti-racist, anti-interventionist movements on the left, and racial supremacist, pro-military intervention, anti-LGBT, and conservative evangelical movements on the right.  Theoretical frameworks are drawn from social movements, intersectional feminist and queer theories.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores