Sex/Work

Catalog description

In this course, students explore the topic of sex work. While course material focuses primarily on sex work in the United States, students also engage in comparative analyses in the international context. Participants in this course learn about the various types of labor that comprise sex work, as well as the different social, theoretical, feminist, regulatory, political, and legislative understandings and approaches to these forms of labor. Students also learn about the impacts that these understandings and approaches have on those engaged in these forms of labor and society more broadly, particularly as it relates to questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Prerequisite: one of the following: RGS 100 , RGS 150 , EDS 206 , POL 205 , PUB 210 , SOC 110 , SOC 120 , SOC 150 . Offered Fall - Odd Numbered Years.