HIST 3503 - The History of Sexuality in the United States

Hours: 3
The history of sexuality examines how Americans have imagined, represented, embodied, used, and resisted different ways of understanding sexuality. Focusing on U.S. history from the nineteenth century through the 1990s, an examination of the history of sexual ideology and regulation; changing sexual practices; the emergence of distinct sexual identities and communities; the politics of sexuality; sexual representation and censorship; sexual violence; the politics of reproduction; gay and lesbian sexualities; sexually transmitted diseases; and the relationship between sexuality and gender, race, class, and power in the United States.

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HIST 3503 - The History of Sexuality in the United States