WMST 600: Special Topics

WMST 600-001: Transnational Sexualities
(Spring 2014)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M

Thompson Hall L004

Section Information for Spring 2014

This course will explore the globalization of sexual identities, cultures, and social movements from a transnational perspective. During the course of the semester, we will consider some of the social and political movements as well as the kinds of legal and policy-making arguments that have helped to shape sexual and gender rights advocacy. To this end, the course readings will be organized around three key areas—migration, development, and human rights—to reflect the increasing turn towards issues of sexuality in each of these domains of academic scholarship and social policy. We will examine a variety of texts—anthropological, cinematic, literary, and legal—across a range of disciplines, including women’s and gender studies, sexuality studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, history, law, cultural studies, and critical ethnic studies, to name but a few. Engaging with literature from across the social sciences and humanities, we will consider how sexual rights discourses get defined and utilized in relation to theories of desire and the body; sexual health and reproductive rights; sex work and sex trafficking; travel and tourism; border-crossing and migration; and neoliberalism and development.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Study of selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Topics vary but include representation and images, violence, public policy, international development, transmigration of labor, myth and ritual, history and politics of sexuality, psychoanalysis, and religion. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. Offered by Women & Gender Studies. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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