ANTH 7979 - Sexualizing the State

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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What would it mean to consider the state from the lens of sexuality How might we engage the nexus of state and sexuality in ways that help us scrutinize the state This course focuses on queer critiques of the state. The state serves as a site for the biopolitical regulation of subjects and populations. Sexuality, the reproduction of heteronormativity, is the node through which state power and biopolitical regulation proceeds. Bringing to bear strands of queer theory and critical scholarship on the state, this course reassesses how the state is imagined and how state reproduction of heteronormativity is conceptualized. Examples of immigration law, mobilization against "sodomy law," and state policies meantto discipline bodies, sexuality, and market exchanges, among others, will help engage questions of state power and its fractures.

Credits:

1.00 - 3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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