SO 213 - Sexualities and the Social

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Wagner College

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Description:

One unit. Ranging from pre-colonial Nigerian to contemporary United States culture, "Sexualities and the Social" will examine the diverse wayshuman beings think about and experience sexuality, sex and gender roles, intimacy and love, marriage and other forms of intimate human relationship, parenting, and domestic and sexual labor. The course will explore how both the experience and ideological meanings of human sexuality have changed in different social and historical contexts, and how sexuality permeates the social division of labor. It will investigate how the ways humans think about and organize sexuality are related to the material realities of the political economy and people's everyday lives and work. Special attention is given to differences and similarities in the experience of sexual relationships across lines of gender, sex, class, race, and sexual orientation. "Sexualities and the Social" makes use of sociological, anthropological and literary sources on sexuality, sex and gender roles including for example the following: Igbo society before and during British colonization; an early nineteenth-century British novelist's exposé on sex and love;an American sex researcher's exploration of human sexuality in the 1940s; second-wave feminist and conservative thinking on marriage and divorce; a late twentieth-century gay man's autobiographical story about his partner's death; and contemporary sociological research on domestic and sexual labor.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wagner.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 390-3100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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