WGSS 231
Sexuality and Imperialism
Fall 2016
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
COMP 234
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Class Details
This course takes as its central premise that the definition and experience of modern sexuality are intimately bound to nineteenth-century imperialism and its legacies. How did imperial power relations help to constitute racial and sexual categories and classifications? To what extent did sexual norms in both the colonies and European metropole contribute to the “management of empire”? In what ways can this historical and intellectual framework help us understand contemporary phenomena such as homonationalism and pink-washing? We will explore these questions through the study of novels, films, and a variety of other cultural and historical texts, ranging from Freud’s Totem and Taboo and Foucault’s History of Sexuality to AndrĂ© Gide’s accounts of sexual tourism in colonial Algeria and Fanon’s analysis of the devastating psychological effects of colonialism. As part of the Exploring Diversity Initiative, this class will foster an awareness of how the economic and political structures of imperialism affected sexual diversity (and vice versa), and how colonial social hierarchies created differing and unequal sexual expectations, restrictions, and freedoms in individual lives.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 15
Class#: 1893
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 25
Expected: 15
Class#: 1893
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
two or three 3-page papers, a 6- to 8-page final essay, a presentation on the final essay topic, and engaged participation
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies majors
Distributions:
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGSS; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 234 Division I WGSS 231 Division II
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 234 Division I WGSS 231 Division II
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