Gender & Sexuality

(1-2 Credits)

Theories of gender and sexuality have evolved beyond dualities to multiplicities. We consider psychoanalytic feminism and the postmodern turn in addition to such complicated issues as sex, sexual desire, polymorphous perversity, and the normative imperative. Following contemporary queer and feminist interventions in the discipline, we consider subjectivities that had heretofore been repressed or relegated to the margins of white male privilege. We explore comparative perspectives on gender and sexuality. This area of study contains various course sections addressing selected topics.