The Politics of LGBTQ Human Rights

Catalog description

This course will study sexual orientation and gender identity in international rights institutions and discourses. Topics will include: the criminalization of sexual and gender minorities; tensions between presumptively universalist constructions of sexual orientation and gender identity and regional formations of sexual and gender non-conformity; legacies of colonialism and strategies of resistance to neo-colonial impositions; sexual rights; queering development; homonationalism; movements against “gender ideology”; the phenomena of moral panics/sex panics. This course is the same as