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WEEK ONE: SEX & GENDER
12-May
Sex as Reified Knowledge/Power
Eviatar Zerubavel: The Elephant in the Room
Schaffer: "50 Years After Kinsey"
Tautology in Rhetoric
Define Cheating & Virginity
13-May
Classification, PostStructualism, Tautology
Casper & Muse: "Genital Fixations"
Biddy Martin: "Sexualities without Genders and Other Queer Utopias"
Kate Bornstein: "Hoowahyoo?"
Problems with Functionalism: Teleology, Ontology & Agency
Practice a role flip
14-May
Gender Bifurcation & The Gaze
Eck: "Men are Much Harder"
Nicolson & Burr: "Normal (Hetero)Sexual Orgasm"
Parker: Ants!!!
Kate Bornstein's Gender Aptitude Test
Bonnie Zylbergold: "Plastic Surgery and the New Standard"
Anne Fausto-Sterling: The Five Sexes
Gaze @ 2 shows, 1 on LOGO
15-May
Sociology of Science, Nature & Reality
Tiefer: Medicalization of sex
History of the Vibrator
Paula Treichler: "How to Have Theory in an Epidemic"
Leonore Teifee: "In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis"
Victoria Pitts: "...Body Projects"
Medical Research on your sex topic
WEEK TWO: POWER & THE BODY
19-May
Cultural Control of Bodies
Thomas Beatie: "Labor of Love"
Daniel Engber: "Naughty Nursing Homes"
Emily Martin: "The Egg and the Sperm"
Myra Marx Feree: "Abortion Talk"
Franz de Waal: "Bonobo Sex"
Make a FLIPPED pregnancy plan
20-May
Resources, Structure, Rships, Ideology
Sharon Hays: Flat Broke
Kath Weston: "Families We Choose"
Frederick Engels: Origins of the Family: Private Property and the State
Judith Butler: "Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?"
Prepare for children TOMORROW!!!
21-May
Public/Private Negotiations
PatricCalifia Public Sex
Oneida: Read this plus the NYTimes link AND the slideshow at NYT
Hilandale Sex Stings: "Sodomy Ruling Mostly Symbolic"
Interview with Foucault: "Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual"
Michel Foucault: "The Repressive Hypothesis"
Write instructions for your body
22-May
Intersections
Richard Fung: "Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn."
Nagel, Joane. "Ethnicity and Sexuality."
Suey Spivey: "Bureaucratizing the Erotic"
Race Matters Cornell West
Extend your sex topic to another culture
WEEK THREE: DIRT
26-May
27-May
Queer Theory: Homosociality
Kate Bornstein: "Gender Outlaw"
Judith Butler: Gender Trouble
Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality"
Kimmel& Mahler: "...School Shootings, 1982-2001"
Dellinger and Williams: "The Locker and the Dorm Room"
Homosocial journal
28-May
Queer Theory: Sexual Identity
Jonathon Katz - "The Invention of Heterosexuality"
CJPascoe: "Dude You're a Fag"
Stein & Plummer: "I Can't Even ThinkStraight"
Lisa Walker: "How to Recognize Lesbian"
Thomas Linneman: "...Feminizing Will & Jack on Will & Grace"
Josh Gamson: "...Queer Dilemma"
Heteronormative Allies
29-May
(Post)Structure-ation & Reality
E.O. Lauman: Sexual Organization of the City
"Boy oh Boy!" Gay Zip codes
Sex & Social Order - A
Sex & Social Order - B
Cathy van Ingen: "Geographies of Gender, Sexulity, and Race"
Kath Weston: "The Great Gay Migration (waiting on article)
Funmaps & international sex laws
WEEK FOUR: EX CHANGE
2-Jun
Purity & Danger (Naturalizing)
Keiran Healy: "HIV in the Blood Supply"
Susan Sontag: "Illness as Metaphor"
Judith Levine: "Harmful to Minors"
Juliet Lapidos: "Is Mad Cow an STD?"
Meghan O'Rourke: "Cancer Sluts... HPV"
Abigail Saguy: "...Sexual Harassment in France & the US."
The dirty challenge
3-Jun
Exchange Theory
Vicki Mayer: "Films Gone Wild"
Suey Spivey: "Bureaucratizing the Erotic"
Andrea Dworkin: "Pornography Happens to Women"
Susie Bright: "After Andrea"
John Martin: "Is PowerSexy?"
Beth Eck: "Nudity and Framing..."
Armstrong et al.: "Sexual Assault on Campus"
Nicola Beisel: "Morals vs. Art"
Chris Summers: "When Does Kinky Porn Become Illegal?"
Ann Ferguson: "Sex War"
Sex Industry Research: Locate a non-medical sexual expense and find out how big the industry is
4-Jun
Resistance, Reproduction, Transgression
Josh Gamson: "Freaks Talk Back"
Amy WIlkins: "...Goth... Sex..."
Outing
Anrienne Rich: "Lies Secrets and Silence"
Silences
5-Jun
ONLINE EXAM FRI JUNE 5, 2008