Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 286 - History/Sexuality&Race/US

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary feminist study of sexuality. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for students to consider the history of sexuality and race in the U.S. both in terms of theoretical frameworks within women's and 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 the 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 "from the science of sex and sexuality to marriage debates" in light of histories of racial and sexual formations. (Gen. Ed. HS, DU)

In addition to one 75-minute lecture and one 50-minute discussion section each week, students will be required to attend additional lectures virtually outside of class throughout the semester, totaling an additional 4-5 hrs of "class" time.

This course was formerly numbered WGSS 290C. If you've taken WGSS 290C, you cannot take this course.