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Academic Year 2005/2006


Crime and Violence in the 20th-Century United States
CHUM 313 SP

Crosslistings:
AMST 340
HIST 340

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.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006


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