PLTC 298 - Sexuality and the Politics of Difference

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Bates College

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Picture females and males learning how to be women and men by distancing themselves from each others' prescribed gender roles. What's missing from this picture Identity politics often gives the impression that patterns of self and other are fixed in nature, culture, or both. The politics of difference marks a refusal to reduce life's ambiguities to orderly patterns. Various gay and lesbian constructions of sexuality provide suggestive terrain for exploring how theories of difference undermine fixed patterns of sexuality. Students read, discuss, and write about recent work in political theory within a context of difference influenced in part by Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida. Recommended background: Politics 191. Not open to students who have received credit for Political Science 298. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 30. W. Corlett.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.bates.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 786-6000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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