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Academic Year 2005/2006

Gender, Science and Sexuality
WMST 293 SP

This seminar is a Women's Studies gateway course and will consider medical and scientific approaches to the study of sexuality over the past 100 years. We will focus on critical reading of primary sources including Krafft-Ebbing Psychopathia sexualis, the Kinsey Reports, and Sex in America. Key themes will include: how conceptions of gender inform and are constructed by the investigative framework and the interpretation of results, the consequences of the impulses to "medicalize" and "normalize" sexual behavior, the effects of quantification, and the tensions between "scientific studies" and "pornography."

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Trumpler,Maria Jean   

Times: ...W... 01:10PM-04:00PM;     Location: FISK115;

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 20)

SR. major: 0   Jr. major: 0

SR. non-major: 0   Jr. non-major: 0   SO: 10   FR: 10

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Writing

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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