Spring 2019  |  GWSS 3404 Section 001: Transnational Sexualities (67771)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall B80
Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.
Class Description:
The contemporary forces of cultural, economic, and political globalization continue to alter and redefine conceptualizations of sexuality and gender. How do we situate cultural, geographical, and historical understandings of sexuality while remaining attentive to homophobic, oppressive, and violent state and individual practices? We will pay particular attention to how ?oppression? is often posited through a liberal human rights framework. This class fosters an interdisciplinary discussion through queer, feminist, and postcolonial theory, globalization studies, literature, film, and ethnography. We will examine concepts of identity, sexual practices and queerness in relation to formulations of the local-global, nations, the transnational, diaspora, community, borders, margins, urban-rural. The course is divided into three sections: representation and iconographies of transnational sexualities; issues around activism, law and citizenship; and finally a survey of current dilemmas and debates within transnational sexuality studies. This course satisfies the Global Perspectives Theme in the Liberal Education Requirements with its transnational, interdisciplinary focus on the particular issue of sexuality. Keywords: sexuality, gender, transnational, immigration, race, globalization, desire, exoticism, sex work, HIV/AIDS, human rights, tourism, space, homonationalism, pinkwashing.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67771/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
23 February 2015

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