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Academic Year 2005/2006
Crime and Violence in the 20th-Century United States
CHUM 313 FA
This course addresses the modern relationship between sex, desire, criminal activity and the broader political consequences of conservative political interventions into sexual subcultures. Topics include: the
marketing/censorship
of persons and images of persons to a potentially desiring public; the historical emergence of women and juveniles as potentially exploitable persons, or victims, particularly liable to injury through their own desire or
the desire of others; the transformation of criminal perversion from private vice to public threat; and the post-modern paradox of the family as a privatized realm that has the statutory protection of the state, but must
be policed by it in the interests of a national sex/gender system.
MAJOR READINGS
Jane Gallop, FEMINIST ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
John Gerassi, THE BOYS OF BOISE
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, CITY OF EROS
James Kincaid, EROTIC INNOCENCE
Laura Kipnis, BOUND AND GAGGED
Catherine McKinnon, ONLY
WORDS
Nadine Strossen,
DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY
Adele Stan, ed. DEBATING SEXUAL CORRECTNESS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Weekly response papers and a 15-20 pp. research paper
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Students may count this in the queer studies concentration in AMST, and in the Gender and U.S. concentrations in the history department.
Students whose attempt to register fails should submit an enrollment
request, but should not e-mail the
professor.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Potter,Claire B.
- Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: CFH106;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 5
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: X FR: X
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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