UMass Boston

Sexual Identities in American Culture

Course #: WGS 325L, Class #: 7156, Section #: 01

Description

This course studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis upon the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, through the study of cultural texts such as novels, songs, films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and men in federal employment during the cold war and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s.

Prerequisites

Pre-req= ENGL 102 and minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor