2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0621-3374-01 | The History of Sexuality in America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The seminar’s investigation of the history of sexuality in America is inspired by Michel Foucault, who argued that body/sex/gender serve as a powerful force for establishing social order in liberal society. We will utilize both the scholarly literature together with numerous historical sources, as well as Foucault's own writing, to study the political and social significance of such subjects as motherhood, physical education, disease, statistics, prostitution, fat, and fashion, from the eighteenth century through to today.