AIP 337 Lesbian and Gay Studies (CP, UP)
This course will familiarize students with the field of Lesbian and Gay Studies. While maintaining a socio-cultural focus, the course will remain loyal to the interdisciplinary nature of the field itself and draw its materials from a variety of fields including sociology, anthropology, history, political science, literature, philosophy, and feminism. The course will focus on the social construction of homosexuality and the emergence of a lesbian and gay identity and movement in the United States following World War II. Throughout the semester, special emphasis will be placed on the relationship between the categories of sexual identity and those of gender, race, class and nationality. The course concludes with a discussion about queer theory, and the political significance of this recent development for the future of lesbian and gay life and politics.