Dyanna Bateman (she/her)Looking for some last minute classes to add to next semester? Here’s your guide to all the LGBTQ+ classes being offered at UM for Winter 2021. This LGBTQ+ Course Guide features classes that are specifically focused on LGBTQ+ topics, and classes that are focused on other subjects but include an LGBTQ+ perspective. (All descriptions have been taken directly from lsa.umich.edu/cg and compiled for your convenience.) AAS 358 - Topics in Black World Studies (Professor Jennifer Jones)
This course will introduce students to historical narratives that center same-sex intimacies and gender transgression in African Diasporic communities. Students will survey the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on such topics and interrogate how black queer cultural workers craft(ed) historical narratives (via films, poems, plays, and fiction) to (re)imagine pasts and possible futures. Note: I have not taken this specific course; however, I have taken a different class with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor Jones! AAS 458 - Issues in Black World Studies: Black Intimacies (Professor Jennifer Jones) This class examines the ways in which black feminist scholars and creatives conceptualize black intimate life through a historical lens. Black intimate life refers to the diverse intimate relationships, kinship networks, reproductive capacities, gendered behavior, and sexual acts of people of African Descent as well as the stories told about these ways of being. Two questions animate the course. What is the relationship between the historical and the contemporary in black feminist scholars/ writers’ work on intimate matters? What are the frameworks/ methods black feminist scholars/writers utilize to understand and write about diverse forms of black intimate life? This course covers three broad overlapping themes (the pursuit of bodily autonomy, pleasure politics, and queer intimacies) and includes various topics (black women’s reproductive agency, interracial sexual intimacies, the politics of respectability, black family formation/ marriage, sex work, etc.). This is a seminar course. Note: I have not taken this specific course; however, I have taken a different class with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor Jones! AAS 482 / WGS 433 - Black Queer Theory (Professor Lydia Kelow-Bennett) While Black Queer Studies is a relatively young field in academia, Black queer brilliance has a much longer history. In this course, we will examine key genealogies, debates, and questions emerging from the intersections of blackness, gender, sexuality, and class in the U.S. and other sites in the African diaspora. This course will cross both disciplinary and methodological boundaries as we examine histories of Black queer and queer of color social movements; literature that reflects Black LGBTQ experiences; Black queer performances; and the numerous interventions that Black queer theories have made into questions of family, belonging, citizenship, futures, and performance. Students registering for this class should have some background in Black or African American/Diasporic studies, preferably at least one course in AAS; or, at least one course in gender and sexuality studies with special attention to race and intersectionality. Graduate students are welcome with instructor permission. AAS 558 - Seminar in Black World Studies (Professor Lydia Kelow-Bennett) Popular culture is an important site for creating, challenging, and transmitting meanings about race, gender, and sexuality. Black popular culture, both in the United States and globally, has particular appeal as a fraught and contested site of meaning-making, power, and self- and communal definition. What can we learn about blackness, gender, and sexuality using the lens of popular culture, and what can critical approaches in Black Studies, Black Queer Theory, and Black Feminism reveal about the meanings made in Black popular culture? In this course, we will examine how Black creators construct and are constructed by popular culture in the U.S. by building a set of critical tools that can help us navigate this rich terrain. We will explore topics such as representations of Black genders and Black sexualities, ideologies and popular culture, fandom, desire and disgust, and subversive media over a wide range of Black popular culture artifacts. We will examine film, television, digital media, photography, music videos, music, theatre, and other artifacts of interest to the class. Throughout the course, we will trouble the term “popular" and think deeply about questions of power, transmission, and affect. Students will help build the syllabus by contributing chosen readings during the second half of the semester. Final projects can be papers, syllabi, field lists with annotated bibliographies, or creative projects. Senior undergraduate participation by instructor approval only. AMCULT 301 / ASIANPAM 301 / FTVM 366 - Topics in American Culture: Asian American Cinema (Professor Melissa Phruksachart) Asians and Asian Americans were some of U.S. cinema’s first subjects and first creators; they are also among its most interesting contemporary voices. This course introduces students to the history of Asian American media-making from the early twentieth century to the present. We will NOT focus on stereotypes in mainstream media. Instead, we’ll examine how the work of Asian American filmmakers (especially women and queers of color) actively resists, complicates, and reimagines what “Asian American” can mean. Screenings will range from pre-code Hollywood films to studio musicals, community video, independent cinema, television, and the internet. Filmmakers to be studied may include Wayne Wang, Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jon Moritsugu, Isabel Sandoval, Wu Tsang, and Andrew Ahn. AMCULT 375 / HISTORY 370 / WGS 370 - Queer Histories of the United States, 1850 to the Present (Professor Jennifer Jones) To teach queer history or to queer the teaching of history? This question- posed by historian John Howard- reflects the central teaching objectives of Queer Histories of the United States, 1850 to the Present. Course participants will survey the diverse social, political, cultural and economic histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) communities in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. Moreover, the instructor and students will collectively interrogate the historical production of gender and sexual categories of “normativity” and “non-normativity” within American life. Course topics include but are not limited to the historical development of queer communities, homophile organizations, gay liberation politics, the histories of queer communities of color, the AIDS Crisis and related activism, transgender political communities, the role of federal and state law/policy in the production of heteronormativity and early twenty-first century trans/queer activism. This course utilizes lectures, discussions and writing assignments alongside interdisciplinary scholarship and primary source materials (including photographs, art, newspapers, memoirs, film and political ephemera). Note: I have taken this specific course with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor Jones! AMCULT 411 / WGS 411 - Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (Professor Nadine Hubbs) What does country music or the “redneck” have to do with the queer? What can the phrase “I’ll listen to anything but country” tell us about the connections among taste, identity, and social status? In the dominant U.S. middle-class culture, country music is linked to white, rural, working-class, heterosexual, southern, and Midwestern people and is invoked as a symbol of “redneck” bigotry. By contrast, queer identity is associated with multicultural, urban, coastal, and enlightened lifestyles. This seminar brings these clashing categories together to question popular images of each one. Is country and its constituency the face of American bigotry? Are queer and of color opposites to rural and working class? How did such notions originate? And are they useful, or counterproductive, for purposes of progressive social change? ASIAN 310 / WGS 311 - Family in Japan (Professor Allison Alexy) What is the importance of family in contemporary Japan? This course begins to answer this central question by exploring both families as lived experience and Family as a powerful symbol for national unity. Focusing on the ways in which families have been imagined, legislated, lived, and refused, we will examine legal structures and social norms that shape these very personal groups. Including social scientific theory about kinship, the course traces the centrality of family in contemporary life while analyzing debates about family change, social conflict, and personal preferences. Topics include the household registry system, parent-child relationships, family-owned businesses, queer families, divorce, and domestic violence. Note: I have not taken this specific course; however, I have taken a different class with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor Alexy! ASIAN 480 - Topics in Asian Studies: Antiracism and Japanese Culture (Professor Reginald Jackson) This course trains students to think critically and comparatively about how concepts of race have been constructed and deployed in the context of Japanese culture, across different historical periods. Using an intersectional feminist framework, we will undertake a transdisciplinary analysis of the discontinuous yet entangled ideologies, affinities, and institutional structures that have configured our unjust past and present. Our driving question is this: How can we employ a Black feminist framework to analyze the historical forces contributing to the particular racial formations congealing within and around Japanese cultures since the late medieval period, and how might we build from this analysis to challenge white supremacist structures? In pursuing anti-racist study, we draw mainly from scholarship in diasporic ethnic studies, mixed-race studies, queer studies, indigenous studies, Asian American studies, Black feminist theory, and afro-pessimism—analytical lenses generally left untapped in Japanese studies. Examples include studies of Japanese Brazilian diaspora; Japanese zainichi Koreans’ language politics; mixed-race representations of Black/Japanese subjects; cold war Afro-Asian solidarity; and afro-pessimist investigations into how late-medieval western antiblackness nourished modern Japanese notions of racial superiority. The primary goals of this course are to establish a critical awareness of racialization and its multifaceted histories, and to develop students’ skills of critical thinking and analytical writing about Japanese culture in an antiracist mode. This involves investigating the roots and legacies of anti-Blackness toward the goal of imagining strategies for practicing anti-racism in our scholarship and non-academic lives. Topics to be explored include the premodern history of Japanese slavery; shifting religious and legal definitions of property and personhood in a transnational frame; the development of racial capitalism; Jesuit missionary activities in Asia, as linked to the slave trade and conquest in the “New World”; racialized representations in literature, drama, visual art, and film; colonialism and modern contestations of sovereignty; legacies of minstrelsy (including blackface and yellowface); white supremacy and Japanese imperialism in Asia; the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII; pre-WWII interracial solidarity movements and cold war decolonial efforts; and contemporary artistic and political responses to right-wing extremism. By the end of the course students will be able to historicize various notions of race, delineate their premises and ideological aims, and conduct research on Japanese culture using intersectional methods. Over the term we will engage in close readings of primary texts and secondary criticism, which will be supplemented with examinations of art historical materials, archival photographs and film footage, and contemporary media. ENGLISH 203 - Introduction to Language and Rhetoric (Professor Alisse Portnoy) Many of us learned an old playground rhyme: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” While that may reassure an elementary school child, anyone who spends even a few minutes studying language and politics, or language and advertising, or language and just about anything, soon realizes that naming has tremendous power. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously defends his “willingness to break laws” by naming some laws just and some unjust; lives hang in the balance pending whether something is named murder or self-defense; selecting a category of racial or national membership on an application or a census poll has many practical consequences. If we acknowledge the tremendous power tied to our linguistic and rhetorical choices, it becomes so important to think critically about them. How do we use, engage, sometimes take apart arguments — whether we are building nations, establishing equalities, normalizing behaviors, applying for jobs, or appealing parking tickets? We’ll increase our critical and analytical facility with a persuasive discourse by engaging some inspiring and often masterful texts from U.S. civil rights movements (1960s Black freedom activists, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and disability rights movements) — and also, in our conversations and writings, by bringing what we learn from that engagement to the worlds around us, outside of our classroom. Basically, we get to study terrific texts, and what we come up with just might change the ways we look at every day, every day. Might even be as fun and sometimes challenging as playing on an elementary school playground, without the sticks and stones. Our texts, mainly speeches and short essays by people including, for example, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Susan B. Anthony, Tammy Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, Huey Newton, John F. Kennedy, and Harriet McBryde Johnson, will be available online via Canvas. ENGLISH 214 / WGS 214 - Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literatures: Trans and Queer Contemporary Poetry (Professor Hannah Ensor) In this course, we will explore contemporary poetry (written mostly in the last 5-10 years) by transgender, trans*, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and otherwise queer-identified writers, and/or works that engage with questions of gender, sex and sexuality, identity, and politics. At the center of our course will be the poems themselves, and we’ll supplement these primary readings with podcast appearances, poetics essays and reviews, and performances/short films created by these and other poets. We’ll engage with some critical “lens” texts to help us frame our discussions, but at every opportunity we will return to the poems as a landing place for our discussions and inquiries. The list of contemporary poets we’ll read is long; we’ll start here: Xandria Phillips, Raquel Salas Rivera, TC Tolbert, CA Conrad, Eileen Myles, Ari Banias, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Angel Dominguez, Ching-In Chen, Jos Charles, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Danez Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Noah Baldino, Duriel E. Harris, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Andrea Abi-Karam, Samuel Ace, Yanyi, and more. The two primary modes of course engagement will be writing and class discussions; writing will take the form of: (1) informal written responses to course texts for each class meeting; (2) putting poems (and other texts) into conversation with each other in short analytical essays; and (3) a cumulative longform essay focusing on one or more course authors to read more deeply, including analysis, research, and optional personal/creative reflection. No prior poetry experience is necessary. ENGLISH 298 - Introduction to Literary Studies: Five Works, Five Ways (Professor Ittai Orr) Literature comforts, conscripts, conceals and criticizes, but above all, it gathers people and meanings across time and space. And somehow, even sitting silently on a shelf, it seems to matter quite a lot. This course asks: what is literature? why does it matter? and how should we make sense of it? Zooming in on just a few touchstone English-language texts in various literary genres – the novel, poetry, the short-story, and even television – and reading several critical takes on each, students will gain a familiarity with the critical tradition, and the analytic frameworks that guide the study and interpretation of literature today, including ecocriticism, disability, race, and queer theory. Pursuing their own approaches, students will ultimately write a critical essay about a literary work of their choosing. Texts include Robinson Crusoe, the poems of Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and The Wire. FRENCH 366 / MEMS 386 - Medieval Literature, History, and Culture: Saints, Deaths, and Miracles in Medieval France (Professor Blake Gutt) In this course, we will examine the role of saints in medieval French life and death. Medieval French literature shows saints as excessive, often uncanny beings who might levitate, live for years without food, see visions, or survive experiences that would be deadly for the average person. Their ability to cure others and to intercede with God renders saints a vital facet of medieval conceptions of physical, mental, and spiritual health. In contrast to the hierarchies of the Catholic church, saints often represented disruptive power, challenging typical social roles. We will investigate saints through their stories, images, and relics. Topics discussed will include disability, chronic illness, queer identities, and neurodiversity. FTVM 190 - First-Year Seminar: Humanities Seminar on Women and Gender: FFF: Film, Fiction, and Female in Israel (Professor Ruth Tsoffar) This first year seminar will introduce students to the incredibly rich, diverse and complex Israeli culture and its approach to women, gender and sexuality. We will trace the codes of masculinity, femininity, and queering in the dynamic climate of contemporary Israeli Jewish and Palestinian realities, engaging with a selection of films, long features and documentaries, short stories, novels and poetry. Discussions will not only provide the opportunity to address the intersections of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, race, or class, but will also help us develop critical tools to approach their historical development and potential for future change. HEBREW 410 - Topics in Modern Hebrew Language (Professor Adi Raz) With immigration from 112 countries, and the religious center of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, Israel is a collection of many cultures. This is an advanced course in Hebrew intended for students who have completed HEBREW 202 and beyond, deals with the many people and cultures of Israel. The course discusses different issues and problems of the minorities (such as Arabs, Druze, Hasidics, and LGBTQ), and different cultures that inhabit the State of Israel. HISTORY 222 / JUDAIC 224 / WGS 224 - Sex and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (Professor Rachel Neis) This course explores Jewish understandings and practices of sexuality and sex/gender from antiquity to the present. We will consider how different concepts of gender – masculine, feminine, nonbinary, queer, and more – interacted with sexual practices and ideas in a variety of religious, social, and political contexts. And we’ll not only trace shifting notions of sexuality and gender but also examine how these notions shored up differing ways of being and doing Jewishness. We will study ancient and medieval traditions (Bible, Talmud, Kabbalah) and their transformations in early modern Jewish communities through contemporary Jewish movements, medieval Jewish practices and imaginaries in Christian and Islamicate worlds, and the complexities of modern Jewish formations in the US and Israel/Palestine, and the present. Our source materials will range across the ritual, legal, ethical, and visual-material, from the philosophical to the everyday. A recurring difficulty we’ll have to grapple with is how we can study cultures in different times and places using present-day categories and identities (e.g. heterosexuality and LGBTQ history). We will try to approach this problem through creative projects and experimental writing. Those interested in the study of religion, sexuality, gender, and history and who enjoy reading and talking about these topics are encouraged to sign up! HISTORY 496 - History Colloquium: Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century (Professor Heather Thompson) This course introduces students to the history of activism in the United States after WWII and it particularly emphasizes on the social and political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will be asked to analyze the origins, strengths, weaknesses, and impact of various movements and the important connections between them. Among these will be the LGBTQ movement, the Black Freedom Struggle, the Welfare Rights Movement, the Prisoner Rights Movement, the Chicano/a Rights Movement, the Asian- American Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, and many more. Students will draw from books, memoirs and primary documents, as well as will view numerous documentaries so that they not only have a good handle on what motivated various social and political movements and what their impact might have been, but also how those movements shine important light on politics today. Course meets fully online synchronously. This course meets the Upper Level Writing Requirement. PSYCH 401 - Special Problems in Psychology as a Social Science: Special Topics in Eating Disorders (Professor Emma Schiestl) Special Topics in Eating Disorders is an upper level seminar broken into two primary aims. 1. Exploring the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of currently recognized clinical eating disorders, with an emphasis on individual (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status) and environmental risk factors associated with pathological eating behaviors, and 2. Examining special topics within the field of eating disorders, including underrepresented populations (e.g., men, LGBTQ+, non-Western cultures), disorders not officially recognized (e.g., food addiction, orthorexia), and the role of the food environment. PSYCH 401 / WGS 432 - Advanced Topics in LGBTQ Studies: Queer Psychology (Professor Will Beischel) Though research in psychology is increasing including LGBT perspectives, an explicitly queer theoretical lens is often missing. But might this lens be a productive way to think through issues relevant to LGBTQ people’s lives as well as the psychological study of gender and sexuality more generally? How can we build a psychology of queerness that centers gender and sexual minorities, rather than pathologizing or marginalizing deviance? And how do other social identities and structures, like race and class, influence the experience and study of queerness? In this course, we will tackle these questions and more by traversing through a multidisciplinary terrain of scholarship in LGBT psychology, queer theory, queer psychology, anthropology, sociology, and feminist studies. We will read both social theories, from early and contemporary theorists, as well as empirical research from across the social sciences. Topics will include heteronormativity, cisgenderism, intersectionality, sexual orientation, gender identity, youth, and activism, among others. At each stage, we will ask of our readings and of ourselves: How would queer theory add to this conversation? And how might this scholarship work toward emancipatory social change for people of all genders and sexualities? These guiding questions will help us consider what queer theory has to offer the field of psychology and how incorporating queer perspectives into the study of gender and sexuality can result in a more inclusive, just, and ultimately more rigorous science. RCCORE 100 - First Year Seminar: Weird Art, Fuller World (Professor Darcy Brandel) Ever wonder why a signed and dated urinal, placed upside down in a museum, gets to be called art? Or why that song sounds more like noise than music? What’s the point of a poem that resists logical meaning at every turn? Or a designer dress made out of meat? Art, in its various forms, often seeks to confront us, and this course considers what the purpose of such strange encounters might be as well as how the strange, itself, can serve as resistance and protest. We will consider a range of artistic examples from Dada to Oulipo, rap to queer camp, produced by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, N.W.A., Harryette Mullen, Lady Gaga, and Claudia Rankine, drawing upon intellectual approaches from literary studies, philosophy, art history, gender and queer studies, and critical race theory. We will explore how weird art defamiliarizes—makes the familiar strange—and can open up new possibilities in the process. But such disruption can be uncomfortable, unexpected, and unwanted, much like protest and activism. As part of our ongoing exploration, we will consider the interplay between discomfort and effectiveness, particularly in the context of social change. This is a course driven by questions, rather than answers; one that asks us to slow down and be fully present—not only with the strange art in front of us, but with the tensions and complex structures of the world around us. This is serious business, no doubt, but art often includes elements of pleasure and fun (I mean, a urinal! on display! in a museum!), so even as we encounter these disruptions, we will bring playfulness and a rigorous curiosity to the process, as well. Along the way, we will develop and hone our writing skills, using informal journaling, peer review, revision, research, close reading, comparative analysis, and reflection, as well as creative expression, to help us explore the fullness and possibility of the weird and strange. SPANISH 232 Section 022 / Section 025 / Section 031 / Section 032 / Section 044 - Second-Year Spanish, Continued: LGBTQA in the Hispanic World: Artistic and Cultural Manifestations (Professor Yeray Ramos Silgado) This topic course will provide students with a general overview and a better understanding of the LGBTQA community/minority in the Hispanic World through a series of different artistic and cultural manifestations: politics, political linguistics, cinema, music, literature, painting, history, law and society. The course will consist of four main thematic units. Each unit will have its own cultural content. These cultural aspects will be used not only for the correspondent cultural component of the course but also for the design of in-class and out-of-class grammar and vocabulary activities. The subtopics of each unit will be thematically related as well as the main movie, readings and songs selected. Students will be able to practice and improve their comprehension and listening skills while relating the language to the common thread: LGBTQA in the Hispanic World. SOC 270 / WGS 270 - Gender and the Law (Professor Emily Peterson) This course explores contemporary legal responses to gender inequality in the U.S., with particular attention to the ways that feminists have tried to use law for social change. Topics may include sex and race discrimination on the job, pay equity, immigrant women’s labor conditions, regulations of pregnancy and abortion, domestic violence and incarceration, and the role of religious liberty in relation to LGBTQIA+ rights. We will study debates among feminists over these legal strategies, the interaction of law with society and culture, and the ways that the intersection of gender, racial, and ethnic identities make a difference in the application and effects of the law. SOC 595 - Topics in Sociology: Sociology of the Body (Professor Paige Sweet) It is the aim of this course to show you how theorizing the body can help you theorize the social world. Bodies are flashpoints for multiple sociological tensions, such as the relationship between the material and the symbolic, desire and discipline, knowledge and experience, the “natural” and the social, regulation and resistance. Attention to the body and embodiment can help us understand complex intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, and ability – how those intersections are performed, exploited, commercialized, and represented – how such axes of power are made durable and how they might transform. This course will explore theories of the body from social theorists such as Marx, Foucault, Butler, Haraway, and Fanon. We will also read contemporary sociological literatures related to the body, such as medicalization, policing, and social movements. In studying the body and embodiment, we will draw from interdisciplinary literatures, especially feminist and queer theory. By the end of the course, you should have the tools to identify how bodies are situated in social relations, how attention to bodies can inform and enhance our understanding of power and inequality, and you will have the opportunity to apply theories of body and embodiment to a topic of interest to you. WGS 150 - Humanities Seminars on Women and Gender: Free to Read: Women, Narratives, and Empowerment (Professor Ruth Tsoffar) This first year seminar will introduce students to the incredibly rich, diverse and complex Israeli culture and its approach to women, gender and sexuality. We will trace the codes of masculinity, femininity, and queering in the dynamic climate of contemporary Israeli Jewish and Palestinian realities, engaging with a selection of films, long features and documentaries, short stories, novels and poetry. Discussions will not only provide the opportunity to address the intersections of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, race, or class, but will also help us develop critical tools to approach their historical development and potential for future change. WGS 245 - Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender and Queer+ Studies (Professor Nadine Hubbs) This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the academic study of sexuality and gender through scholarship in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+(LGBTQ+) studies. Topics include feminine, masculine, gender-queer, and transgender positions; practices of sexuality and gender in and outside the Americas; meanings and uses of the term queer in contemporary discourse; regulation of bodies and pleasures through genital normativity and the category of sexuality itself; shifting historical concepts of same-sex desires and practices; and possibilities for activism. Throughout, the course will consider the interplay of past and present genders and sexualities with race, culture, and class. WGS 265 - Introduction to Transgender Studies (Professor Andrea Bolivar) This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Transgender Studies. We study how transgender is understood by various disciplines, including: medicine, anthropology, women's studies, and queer theory. We engage with "trans" as an analytic, and examine how transgender has contributed to our ever changing understandings of gender, sex, race etc. WGS 341 - Special Topics in LGBTQ Studies: Queer Israel (Professor Oren Eubanks Segal) This course traces the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Israel from 1948 to the present day. With particular attention to the ways that sexual identity intersects with nationality, ethnicity, religion, class, and gender, the course showcases the historically contingent nature of not only homosexuality but also heterosexuality and gender identity. By emphasizing the gradual emergence of sexual identities in dialog with other social phenomena in the Israeli context, we will understand the central role that sexuality has played in Israeli cultural history. Topics include the emergence of Zionist masculinity, sexual policing, the tension between global and local sexual identities, AIDS crisis, army service, gay tourism, the Eurovision song contest, pinkwashing, and queer politics WGS 432 - Advanced Topics in LGBTQ Studies: Black Intimacies (Professor Jennifer Jones) In this course, students will explore the ways in which black feminist and black queer scholars, writers and artists have analyzed and articulated black intimacies in their work. Here black intimacies refers to black intimate life or the diverse erotic bonds, friendships, kinship formations and communal networks of people of African Descent. Course texts include (inter)disciplinary scholarship (history, literary studies, sociology, performance studies) and various forms of creative expression including novels, poetry, film and art. Note: I have not taken this specific course; however, I have taken a different class with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor Jones! WGS 447 - Sociology of Gender (Professor PJ McGann) For individuals, gender is often an essential aspect of personhood and personal experience. But gender is also a cultural and structural system that differentiates members of society. At both the individual and institutional levels, gender intersects with race, class, and sexuality to structure identities, rights, privileges, and opportunities. Organized around investigation of the socially produced North American binary gender order, this course is an introduction to the sociological study of gender that focuses on gender as embedded in social life. Specific topics of study include gender identity, how children and adults "become" gendered and "do" their gender(s), gender as a symbolic system, gender and sport, desire and gender, trans, and intersex. Note: I have not taken this specific course; however, I have taken a different class with this professor, and I highly recommend Professor PJ! Looking for more? Check out these majors and minors offered by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies: Women’s and Gender Studies Major Gender and Health Major Gender and Health Minor Gender, Race, and Nation Minor LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies Minor
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