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Academic Year 2002/2003

Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
ANTH 322 FA
Crosslistings:
AMST 320

This course focuses on the politics of gender and sexuality within a variety of nationalist contexts, including cultural nationalisms in the United States, and histories of resistance. Beginning with a historical exploration, we will examine how colonial processes, along with other forms of domination that include racializing technologies, have transformed gender and sexuality through the imposition of definitions of "proper" sexual behavior, pre-occupations with "sexual deviance," sexual expression as a territory to be conquered, legacies of control, legal codification, and commodification. We will then assess how diverse modes of self-determination struggles negotiate "differences from within" with regard to gender and sexual politics. This part of the course will examine feminist interventions in nationalist productions that sustain masculinist and homophobic agendas.

MAJOR READINGS

1. BETWEEN WOMAN AND NATION: NATIONALISMS, TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS, AND THE STATE, Eds. Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem.
2. SACRED QUEENS AND WOMEN OF CONSEQUENCE: RANK, GENDER, AND COLONIALISM IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, Jocelyn N. Linnekin.
3. IMPOSING DECENCY: THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY AND RACE IN PUERTO RICO, 1870-1920, by Eileen J. Suarez-Findlay.
4. WHEN JESUS CAME, THE CORN MOTHERS WENT AWAY: MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY, AND POWER IN NEW MEXICO, 1500-1846 by Ramon A. Gutierrez.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Regular class reading response papers. Three short focused papers.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS AMST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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