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Academic Year 2005/2006

Problems and Methods in Queer Historiography
HIST 349 SP
Crosslistings:
AMST 197
WMST 349

This course is intended to prepare students for advanced research in the field of queer history, the history of gender, and the history of sex; and to support a historical perspective for those doing queer research in American Studies. The course will encourage students to take a transnational and/or comparative perspectives that will teach comparative method more generally, and situate the production of identities in the history of race, politics and ideas.

MAJOR READINGS

Lisa Duggan, SAPPHIC SLASHERS
Michel Foucault, THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: AN INTRODUCTION
Licia Fiol-Matta, A QUEER MOTHER FOR THE NATION
Audre Lorde, ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME
Joanne Meyerowitz, HOW SEX CHANGED: A HISTORY OF TRANSSEXUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Siobhan Somerville, QUEERING THE COLOR LINE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

3 5-7 pp. papers or 1 15-20 pp. paper

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Course may be counted for the Gender and History Concentration, and as a junior colloquium and comparative Americas credit in American Studies.

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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