Description: |
This course explores a number of thematic topics in the history and politics of sex, sexuality, and the body. It looks at human bodies as cultural sites that have been constructed, experienced, and regulated in different ways at different times. In this continuous process of redefining and reimagining bodies, sex and sexualities emerge as important strategies that shape, control, and liberate bodies, both cultural and physical, individual and political. The course examines changing sexual behaviors and identities and considers the politics of sex as it moves out of private bedrooms into the realm of political ideologies, discourses, and practices. |