Sex, Culture, and Power: Advanced Topics in Sexuality Studies

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The subject of sex is at once taken for granted—treated as self-evident and natural—and zealously scrutinized as a mysterious and potentially disruptive force. This advanced-level class will undertake a critical inquiry into this complicated terrain by examining theoretical interventions into the lived practices, social meanings, and cultural representations of human sexuality. Our examination of scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of sexuality studies will provide insight into sexuality as a source of personal and community identity as well as a site of political and cultural contestation.