American Studies 334 - Topics in Sexual Identity

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

GSS, SRE This course focuses on the emergence and development of lesbian and gay identities in the United States from World War II to the present. Reading a variety of textual genres (history, sociology, memoir, literature) and screening documentary visual media, students examine the consolidation of lesbian and gay identities in the years before 1969 (Stonewall), the effect of the Stonewall Rebellion, the divergence of lesbian and gay male subcultures in the 1970s (with their separatist and hedonistic utopian variations), the AIDS crisis and racialized lesbian feminisms of the 1980s, and the new queer activism and subsequent commercialization of gay identity in the 1990s.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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