SOC-323 Seminar on Sexuality and Social Theory.
A critical investigation of the place sexuality occupies in social theory. Texts by social theorists will illustrate a variety of intellectual affiliations, including Marxist political economy, feminism, Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic frameworks, and post-structuralist and post-modern perspectives. Examines how conceptions of sexuality figure in theories of social life, including theories of collective action, social organization, the origins and mechanisms of inequality and social identity.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
two social science courses or consent of instructor.
Offered
Fall
Notes
Some background in reading and analyzing difficult theoretical works (in sociology, political science, philosophy or a similar discipline) is helpful.