Sex Gender Reproductive Rights

Catalog description

This seminar is an overview of sexual, gender, and reproductive rights in the context of the culture, politics, government, and history of rights and social movements. The course will primarily focus on the United States context but will also integrate examples of rights-based movements, advocacy, and policy making from various countries and municipalities as applicable. It describes the policy-making process and why sexuality, gender, and reproduction are often the subjects of policy making. Threaded throughout the course will be an examination of the concept of sexual citizenship. Analytic techniques will draw on the fields of policy evaluation and health communications. Central goals of this course are for students to analyze the epistemological assumptions within a current sexuality, gender, and/or reproductive policy; deconstruct the historical context of the policy; then propose recommendations for a new or improved policy and communications campaign. RESTRICTED TO HSX STUDENTS