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Academic Year 2004/2005

Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
ANTH 322 SP
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. IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT, Anne McClintock
5. FEMINIST GENEALOGIES, COLONIAL LEGACIES, DEMOCRATIC FUTURES, eds. M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Regular class reading response papers and one final paper.

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-21-2005

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