WGSS 347a - Race and Sexual Politics in the Modern United States

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Yale University

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Timothy Stewart-Winter. th 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Race and sexuality as major categories organizing life and politics in the twentieth-century United States. Focus on the development of racial and sexual classification and on ways in which Americans have adopted, resisted, and transformed the normative meanings of these catagories. Topics include the politics of respectability in communities of color; definitions of sexual health; reproductive and marital norms; the changing status of sex and marriage across the color line; sexual harassment and violence; hiv/aids; and the sexual politics of social movements both left and right.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yale.edu

Phone Number:

(203) 432-4771

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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