2018 - 2019

0621-3374-01
  The History of Sexuality in America                                                                  
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Michael ZakimGilman-humanities320Sun1600-1800 Sem  2
Gilman-humanities320Wed1600-1800 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

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.

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