Gender and Sexuality in Modern America

Undergraduate catalogue

This course examines the history of gender and sexuality from 1900 to the present, with emphasis on both regulation and resistance. Topics include early homosexual subcultures; the commercialization of sex; reproduction and its limitation; sex, gender, and war; cold war sexual containment; the feminist movement; conservative backlash; AIDS politics; same-sex marriage; Hillary; Trump 2.0; and many others.