WGSS 2002 - Theories and Methods: Gender and Sexuality Studies - Writing Intensive

Hours: 3
Thinking the body. Examining the corporeal “‘stuff’ of subjectivity,” exploring gender and sexuality as a nexus of desire, pleasure, power, and personhood. Investigating a rich panorama of sexual and gender identities, acts, and expressions. Wrestling with questions of definition and agency. Topics will include teen masculinity, “the bro code,” transgender transitions, barebacking, the stone butch, asexuality, sex work, pornographies, orgasm, non-monogamies, and s/m. The interconnections between race, gender, class, nation, age, and sexuality. Readings represent recent and cutting-edge texts in the field, including work by Anamarie Jagose, C. J. Pascoe, Tim Dean, Julia Serrano, and more.
Every other year, odd years.
Prerequisites: WGSS 1100 and 2001, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors only; or WGSS 1100 and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minors only; or permission of instructor.

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WGSS 2002 - Theories and Methods: Gender and Sexuality Studies - Writing Intensive