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The Pink BookSpring 2010 Courses in LGBT Studies
* = Permission of instructor required
Courses that centrally address issues in LGBT Studies WGSS 031b History of Sexuality Exploration of scientific and medical writings on sexuality over the past century. Focus on the tension between nature and culture in shaping theories, the construction of heterosexuality and homosexuality, the role of scientific studies in moral discourse, and the rise of sexology as a scientific discipline. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program. WGSS 323b [AFST323/ANTH239 ] HIV and AIDS in Africa The social and cultural context in which the AIDS epidemic emerged and spread in southern Africa. How people and organizations experience, conceptualize, and respond to AIDS, and how AIDS is constructed through discourse and representation. WGSS 337b [MGRK202/CLCV214/LITR225/HUMS278 ] The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy The interactions of gender, sexuality, and nationalism in the poetry of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933). Questions of biography, representation, disclosure, and evasion; Cavafy's aestheticism. Ways in which Cavafy simultaneously appeals to and resists prevailing notions of writing, desire, language, the classical tradition, and modernity. His contributions to our understanding of the history and politics of Greek and gay identity in the twentieth century. WGSS 346b [HIST 169] War, Gender, and Sexuality in the Twentieth-Century United States Study of how the symbolic and lived experience of combat has framed American ideas about gender and sexuality from the early twentieth century to the present. Attention to noncombat arenas where warfare intersects with everyday life, including conscription, industrial production, marriage and child rearing, sexual subcultures, intimate and racial violence, illness and disability, veteran status, and struggles for citizenship and equality. WGSS 348b [HIST160J/AMST353 ] Selected Topics in Lesbian and Gay History Changing understandings and regulation of same-sex desire and sexual subjectivity from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Interpretation of primary texts in the context of recent theory and historiography. Texts include sermons, diaries, correspondence, police and court records, medical and sociological studies, political tracts, fiction, photographs, and films WGSS 352b [ENGL359 ] Feminist Perspectives on Literature Feminist and queer methods in literary criticism. Topics include the sexual politics of literary traditions; gender and sexuality in relation to plot, narrative, authorship, language, and theories of reading and popular culture; voice, silence, and the politics of representation; and the contributions of literature to feminist and queer theory and political movements. Fulfills the methods requirement. WGSS 367b [HIST 129b] Urban Sexualities in U.S. History WGSS 408b [HUMS288/ENGL342 ] Mythology and Community in Twentieth-Century Queer Literature The use of mythology and mythopoeia (myth-making) by twentieth-century British and American writers to develop queer literary and historical communities. Readings include classical, biblical, and contemporary mythic texts as background for readings in modernist and postmodernist literature. Authors include James Joyce, Hilda Doolittle, Jeanette Winterson, and Tony Kushner. [WGSS 465 [ANTH 286] Anthropology of Sexuality] (Canceled for spring 2010)
Courses that include LGBT Studies Perspectives WGSS 110b [ SOCY134] Sex and Gender in Society Introduction to the social processes through which people are categorized in terms of sex and gender, and how these social processes shape individual experiences of the world. Sex and gender in relation to race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, education, work, family, reproduction, and health. WGSS 201b [ HIST171/AMST271] Women in America: The Twentieth Century U.S. women’s history and the history of gender from 1900 to the present. Changing meanings of femininity, masculinity, sex, gender, and sexuality; intersections of class, race, ethnicity, and gender; women?s labor in industrial and postindustrial economies; women?s participation in politics and social movements; trends in sexual expression, gender presentation, reproduction, child rearing, and marriage; and feminist and other gender-equity movements. WGSS 363b [AFST363/ANTH358 ] Beauty, Fashion, and Self-Styling Beauty, fashion, and style as aspects of self-identification and embodiment in everyday life. The relationship between the individual and society in different cultural and historical contexts, as interpreted by social science scholarship about the human body and its adornment WGSS 369b [ER&M367/ENGL369] Adoption Narratives A survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. and British representations of adoption in. fiction, memoir, poetry, drama, film, and social science writing. Special attention to the implications for adoption narratives of recent theories of race, gender, identity, and trauma. WGSS 376b [AMST 136b /FILM640/FILM444] Sexual Modernity and Hollywood Censorship Examines the genre of romantic comedy, censorship, and the representation of sexual modernity in Hollywood film from the 1920s to the 1960s. Analyzes the tension between the studios' censorship code and the influential European émigré filmmakers who developed filmic strategies to subvert it and to present modern perspectives on sexuality and gender. The course focuses mainly on the romantic comedies of the directors Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, with some attention to the films of Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. Screenings include The Marriage Circle, The Love Parade, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living, Ninotchka, The Major and the Minor, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and Irma La Douce. WGSS 398b Junior Seminar: Theory and Method An interdisciplinary approach to studying gender and sexuality. Exploration of a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies relevant to contemporary feminism. Prepares students for the senior essay. WGSS 410b [AFAM410 ] Interdisciplinary Approaches to African American Studies An interdisciplinary, thematic approach to the study of race, nation, and ethnicity in the African diaspora. Topics include class, gender, color, and sexuality; the dynamics of reform, Pan-Africanism, neocolonialism, and contemporary black nationalism. Use of a broad range of methodologies. WGSS 471b Independent Directed Study For students who wish to explore an aspect of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies not covered by existing courses. The course may be used for research or directed readings and should include one lengthy or several short essays. Students meet with their adviser regularly. To apply for admission, students present a prospectus to the director of undergraduate studies including a bibliography of the work proposed and a letter of support from the adviser. WGSS 390b The Senior Colloquium A research seminar taken during the senior year. Students with diverse research interests and experience discuss common problems and tactics in doing independent research. AMST 210b Nineteenth-Century American Literature, the Revolution to 1865 A survey of antebellum American literature, with emphasis on the relationships of law, literature, and democracy in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Definitions of "the people," the expansion of the literary public sphere, market relations and literary democracy, and concepts of public voice in law and literature as inflected by the contexts of race and gender. EP&E 384b Social Studies of Sexuality Human sexuality as a key dimension of social and cultural life. Historical transformations of sexual life as well as its main features in contemporary society. The role of sexual discourses and practices in constructing notions of selfhood and interpersonal relationships. AFAM 304b Toni Morrison Analysis of Toni Morrison's speeches, interviews, essays, and eight novels. Examination of race, gender, class, sexuality, identity, and memory in Morrison's work.
The Pink Book is compiled from courses listed online in the Yale College Blue Book Programs of Study. These courses are for the Spring 2010 semester only.
Official Yale College course information is found on the Yale Online Course Information Website, www.yale.edu/courseinfo. Consult this site for updated meeting times and locations.
Fall 2009 Courses in LGBT Studies
* = Permission of instructor required
WGSS 145a, Cross-Cultural Narratives: Desire* William Summers TTh 4:00-5:15 Discourses of desire as reflected in literature, history, popular culture, medicine and science with examination of both Western and Non-western examples. Connections with shifting notions of gender and sexuality; intersections with race, class, and culture. How desire is recognized, represented and understood in diverse cultures and subcultures, especially as it relates to sexual minorities, will be the main theme of this seminar. Enrollment is open to Freshman and Sophmores.
WGSS 111a, AMST 111a, Sexuality and Religion Kathryn Lofton TTh 11:35-12:25 The sexuality of American religion. Case studies and theoretical expositions map the relationship between sexuality and the texts, rituals, regulations, and communities of American religious cultures. Topics include seductive ministers, pedophile priests, abstinent sects, and complex marriages. WGSS 200a, AMST 135a, HIST 127a, U.S. Lesbian and Gay History George Chauncey TTh 10:30-11:20 Introduction to the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual minorities. Focus on understanding categories of sexuality in relation to shifting normative regimes, primarily in the twentieth century. The emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements. WGSS 296a, Introduction to LGBT Studies* Graeme Reid Timothy Stewart-Winter TTh 11:35-12:50 Study of works that have as their theme gay and lesbian experience and identity since the late nineteenth century. Works include fiction and autobiographical texts, historical and sociological materials, texts on queer theory, and films. Focus on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. WGSS 304a, Men, Manhood, and Masculinity* Graeme Reid W 1:30-3:20 Cultural and historic constructions of masculinity explored through an investigation of male bodies, sexualities, and social interactions. Multiple masculinities; the relationship between hegemonic, non-hegemonic, and subordinate masculinities. WGSS 347a, Race and Sexual Politics in the Modern United States* Timothy Stewart-Winter Th 3:30-5:20 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 categories. 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. WGSS 349a, THST 356a, Gay and Lesbian Theater* Robert Vorlicky F 1:30-3:20 A reading-intensive survey of U.S. gay, lesbian, and transgender drama and performance across genre, periods, and casting variables. Plays examined both as texts and as material meant for production. Emphasis on historicizing the interplay between text and performance when critiquing the gay, lesbian, and transgender subject in theatrical representation. WGSS 364a, Sex, Gender, and the Modern Body Inderpal Grewal Social theory of “the body” and its complex links to sex and gender. Exploration of the varied notions of the body produced within different historical, cultural, and disciplinary contexts, with special attention to the conditions of colonialism, race, and modernity. Analysis of the body within popular and consumer culture.
WGSS 370a, Cultural Narratives of Violence against Women* Melanie Boyd TTh 1:00-2:15 Examination of key feminist theories of violence against women, considering the ways in which they have both illuminated and altered broader cultural narratives of sexual violence. Ways in which these theories are themselves shaped by cultural presumptions, particularly those grounded in race, class, and sexual orientation.
WGSS 339a, ENGL 385a, Feminist Fictions* Margaret Homans TTh 1:00-2:15 Historical survey of works of fiction that have shaped feminist and queer thought from the late eighteenth century to the present. Authors include Wollstonecraft, C. Brontë, Gilman, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Wittig, Walker, Morrison, Churchill, and Winterson.
WGSS 436a, AFAM 231a, ANTH 211a, Sex & Gender in the Black Diaspora Jafari Allen TTh 1:00-2:15 A critical survey of images, rhetoric, experiences, and practices of gender and sexuality formation of black subjects in Africa, the Caribbean, Western Europe, and the United States. Construction of class, nationality, race, color, sexuality, and gender. WGSS 466a, PSYC 414a, Psychology of Gender Images* Marianne LaFrance MW 9:00-10:15 The nature and effects of gender images (males and females, sexual orientation, gender identities) on the construction of self-identity, stereotypes, aspirations, and interpersonal relationships. Focus on contemporary media, with attention to how, when, and why gender images change with time. ENGL 256a, Class, Desire and the Novel* Barry McCrea M 9:25-11:15 Literary plots involving social and erotic progress examined in works for the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include social ambition or decline, the marriage plot and its alternative, the narrative role of family or social outsiders,and sexuality and narrative form. SOCY 330a, Civil Society and Democracy* Jeffrey Alexander T 9:25-11:15 Normative and sociological theories of civil society and its role in democracy, with special attention to cultural discourses. The 1960s civil rights movements, the 1980s gay and lesbian movement, and more recent controversies over immigration; the role of mass media; power and the 2008 presidential election; issues of global civil society. AMST 465a, Censorship and U.S. Culture* Jole Silverman Th 1:30-3:20 An analysis of American culture, from World War I to the present, through the lens of struggles over texts that discuss political, religious, and sexual themes. Source material includes banned or challenged novels, essays, photographs, films, and music.
The Pink Book is compiled from courses listed online in the Yale College Blue Book Programs of Study. These courses are for the Fall 2009 semester only.
Official Yale College course information is found on the Yale Online Course Information Website, www.yale.edu/courseinfo. Consult this site for updated meeting times and locations.
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