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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

WOMS 156 - American Sexualities

Credit(s): 3
AMERICAN SEXUALITIES
Component: Lecture
Learn about the history of American sexuality and its importance to our politics and culture today. We will examine a variety of topics: the history of marriage and the family, pregnancy and childbirth, contraception, abortion, rape, prostitution, erotica/pornography, sexual reform and social purity movements, sexuality and racial conflicts, sex during wartime, transsexuality, same-sex desires and communities, the sexual politics of women’s emancipation, sexual diseases, sex education, sexual liberation, and the gay rights movement.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: Crosslisted with HIST 156  
University Breadth: History and Cultural Change College of Arts and Sciences Breadth: A&S GROUP B: History and Cultural Change
General Education Objectives: