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SYLLABUS | ||||
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Evelyn Blackwood
Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality:
Scholarship on Lesbian and Gay Issues This course introduces students to current work in the study of sexuality, with particular attention to lesbian and gay studies. It encompasses research and creative work in a variety of fields, from literature to medical science. Along with an introduction to histories of sexuality, the course explores the ways human beings, including lesbians, gay men and transgendered people, construct, participate in and resist various constructions of gender and sexuality in the "West" and in other cultures in various historical contexts. We will discuss theoretical issues, read historical and ethnographic works, and view films in our quest to develop an understanding of human sexuality beyond that imagined in scientific and Western discourses. REQUIRED TEXT 1. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa, eds. Female Desires: Same-sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures. Columbia University Press, 1999. (B&W). 2. All other readings are provided in the course reader (see bibliography for complete references). COURSE REQUIREMENTS 1. There will be two papers of 4-5 pages each on topics handed out by the instructor. 2. CLASS ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION: You are allowed only 6 absences during the semester. An important part of the class will be discussion. Do your readings before class and be prepared to participate in discussions in class. 3. FINAL PAPER OR GROUP PROJECT: A mini-research project of 8-10 pages on a topic discussed in class, which will be due at the end of the semester. You must consult with the instructor about your topic. You may choose to do a project with another student. Papers may be based on library research or on ethnographic observation and analysis of a queer site. COURSE SCHEDULE Histories of sexuality, pt. 1 Freud, The sexual aberrations Social construction theory Wittig, One is not born a woman Ross & Rapp, Sex and society Vance, Social construction theory Queer theory Biology and its discontents Constructing Lesbian Identities Butch-femme Identities Transgendered Identities Transnational Queers and National
Locations Bibliography for Interdisciplinary
Studies in Sexuality Butler, Judith. 1993. Imitation and gender insubordination. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. H. Abelove, M. Barale, and D. Halperin, eds. New York: Routledge. Cordova, Jeanne. 1992. Butches, lies and feminism. In The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. J. Nestle, ed. Boston: Alyson Publications. Cromwell, Jason. 1999. Transmen and FTMs. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. De Lauretis, Teresa. 1993. Sexual indifference and lesbian representation. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. H. Abelove, M. Barale, and D. Halperin, eds. New York: Routledge. Doell, Ruth. 1995. Sexuality in the brain. Journal of Homosexuality 28(3/4):345-354. Freud, Sigmund. 1996. The sexual aberrations. In The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural Studies Reader. Donald Morton, ed. Boulder: Westview Press. Foucault, Michel. 1980. The History of Sexuality, Vol. I. New York: Vintage Books. Gay American Indians and Will Roscoe, eds. 1988. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Halberstam, Judith. 1998. Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press. Halperin, David. M. 1990. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love. New York: Routledge. Hamer, Dean. 1994. The
Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology
of Behavior. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Hammonds, Evelynn. 1997. Toward
a genealogy of black female sexuality: The problematic of
silence. In Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies,
Democratic Futures. M.J. Alexander and C.T. Mohanty, eds.
New York: Routledge. Katz, Jonathan. 1990. The invention
of heterosexuality. Socialist Review 20: 7-34. Kennedy, Elizabeth and Madeline
Davis. 1993. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History
of a Lesbian Community. New York: Penguin. LeVay, Simon. 1993. The
Sexual Brain. Cambridge: MIT Press. Lorde, Audre. 1983. Tar beach.
In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Barbara Smith,
ed. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press. Malinowitz, Harriet. Lesbian
studies and postmodern queer theory. In The New Lesbian
Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century. B. Zimmerman and T.
McNaron, eds. New York: Feminist Press. Manalansan, Martin. 1993. (Re)locating
the gay Filipino: Resistance, postcolonialism, and identity.
Journal of Homosexuality 26(2/3):53-72. Martinez, Jacqueline. 1997.
Radical ambiguities and the Chicana lesbian. In Spoils of
War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions. T. Sharpley-Whiting
and R. White, eds. Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Nestle, Joan. 1992. The femme
question. In The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader.
J. Nestle, ed. Boston: Alyson Publications. Ross, Ellen and Rayna Rapp.
1981. Sex and society: A research note from social history and
anthropology. Comparative Studies of Society and History
23:51-72. Rubin, Gayle. 1984. Thinking
sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality. In
Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. C.
Vance, ed., pp. 267-319. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Somerville, Siobhan. 1994.
Scientific racism and the emergence of the homosexual body. Journal
of the History of Sexuality 5(2):243-266. Vance, Carol. 1989. Social
construction theory: Problems in the history of sexuality. In Homosexuality,
which Homosexuality? Essays from the International Scientific
Conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies. D. Altman, et al.
London: GMP Publishers. Vicinus, Martha. 1993. They
wonder to which sex I belong: The historical roots of the modern
lesbian identity. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.
H. Abelove, M. Barale and D. Halperin, eds. New York: Routledge. Warner, Michael. 1991. Introduction:
Fear of a queer planet. Social Text 9(4):3-17. Wittig, Monique. 1993. One is
not born a woman. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.
H. Abelove, M. Barale, and D. Halperin, eds. New York: Routledge |
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