History 254 - Gender and Sexuality in US CA,UD

Institution:

Hiram College

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Description:

History of Gender and Sexuality in the US: This course will survey some of the major issues in the history of American gender and sexuality. Several themes will organize this course: cross-cultural encounters, malefemale sexual politics, and the formation of homosexual and heterosexual identities. We will track these themes from the era of colonial settlement until the present day. As settlers arrived in the colonies they found Indians to possess gender roles and sexual practices at odds with their own. Looking more squarely at the colonists' own communities we will wit ness a surprising degree of tolerance towards behaviors still taboo in may modern circles. Sodomy and abortion seem to have been accepted as part of man's fate in a fallen world. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries seem to have given birth to a vigorous assault on the female body by moral reformers and physicians in Northern society. As we turn to the twentieth century we will consider the breakdown of Victorian mores, as well as the emergence of homosexual identity, both as imposed by outsiders as well as defined by the gay community.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HIRAM.EDU

Phone Number:

(330) 569-3211

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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