Syllabus

SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL IDENTITIES - Winter 2006

Sociology of Sexuality (Spring 2006) Syllabus - SYG 4060:

Human Sexuality - Spring 2006

SYLLABUS: MEN, WOMEN, AND SOCIETIES - Spring 2006

SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES - Sociology 278: Syllabus - Spring 2003 - Terry Arendell Department of Sociology, Colby College

Sociology 365 - Sexualities
Tina Fetner - Cornell College 2003
people.cornellcollege.edu/tfetner/sexualities/syllabus.html

Social Constructions

Week 1 Mon Introductions
How do you do?
Sex quiz - let's see how much you know.
Questions: just what is so social about sexuality? How can we visualize the sociology of sexualities?

Theorizing Sexualities
Jeffrey Weeks. 1986. Sexuality. NY: Routledge. Chapter 3. Available on reserve.
Mary McIntosh. 1968. "The Homosexual Role." Social Problems 16:182-92. Available on reserve.
Questions: How can we use historical and cross-cultural comparisons to highlight sexual norms and roles?

Gayle Rubin. 1993. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." In Abelove, Borale and Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. NY: Routledge. Available on reserve.
Issues: sexual hierarchies, moral panics, sexual identity

Social Institutions and Sexualities

Religion
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman. 1997. Intimate Matters. 2nd edition. Chapters 1-2.
St. Thomas Aquinas. 13th century. "The Purpose of Sex." Reprinted in Anne Minas, ed. Gender Basics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Available on reserve.
Film: "One Nation Under God"
Questions: Why does religion have such a large role in shaping sexual mores? What are the mechanisms through which religions enforce these norms? How much has the role of religion changed over time?

Family
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman. 1997. Intimate Matters. 2nd edition. Chapters 4-5.
Questions: How does the family, as an institution, shape sexuality? What are the social hierarchies of family forms? How are these hierarchies enforced?
Analysis Paper due today.

Class and Race
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman. 1997. Intimate Matters. 2nd edition. Chapters 9-10.
Questions: In what ways have class and race shaped our understanding of sexuality? In what ways have class warfare resulted in sexual policy?

Politics and Law
Hilary M. Lips. 1997. Sex and Gender: an Introduction. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. Selection entitled, "Marriage: the Intimate Economic Partnership." Available on reserve.
Susan L. Thomas. 1997. "Women, Welfare, Reform and the Preservation of a Myth." The Social Science Journal 34:351-68. Available on reserve.
Questions: How do politics constrain sexuality? What are the various mechanisms though which sexuality is enforced, and how do these intersect with race, class, and gender?

Part 3 - Sexual Communities and Identities

Building (and tearing down) Sexual Communities
Barry Adam. 1995. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. NY: Twayne Publishers. Chapters 3-4.
Leslie Feinberg. 1998. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press. Chapters 1-2.
Film: "Before Stonewall"
Questions: What led to the development of sexual communities in Germany in the pre-WWII era? How does this parallel the transgender communities developing in the US today? What are the necessary features of a community? How does sexuality lead to community building?

Communities and Movements
Barry Adam. 1995. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. NY: Twayne Publishers. Chapters 5-6.
Leslie Feinberg. 1998. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press. Chapter 6.
Arlene Stein. 1992. "Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism." Socialist Review 22:33-55. Available on reserve.
Questions: Under what conditions do sexual social movements succeed? How much do they depend upon community? identity?
Research paper outline and bibliography due today.

Part 4 - Social Control of Sexuality

Silence
Leslie Feinberg. 1998. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press. Chapters 3, 5.
Janice M. Irvine. 2002. Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 4, available on reserve.
Wendy Chavkin. 2001. "Sex, Lies, and Silence: Reproductive Health in a Hostile Environment." American Journal of Public Health 91:1739-41. Available as pdf through EBSCOhost. Also located here.
Questions: How does silence operate as a mechanism of social control of sexuality? Who enforces silence? How is this mechanism resisted?

Violence
Leslie Feinberg. 1998. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press. Chapters 7-8.
National Coaltion of Anti-Violence Programs. 2003. "Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Violence in 2002." Available as pdf download at www.avp.org or here.
Film: "The Times of Harvey Milk"

Part 5 - Sexual Commodities, Commodified Sexualites

Commodify this! Pornography and Sexuality
Wendy Chapkis. 1997. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. NY: Routledge. Introduction, Chapters 1-2.
bell hooks. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. Selection entitled, "Selling Hot Pussy." Available on reserve.
Issues: the tangled web of commercialized sexuality and feminist ideology, a Marxist interpretation of commodified sexuality, sex work and sex workers.

Sex Industries
Wendy Chapkis. 1997. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. NY: Routledge. Chapters 3-4.
Valerie Jenness. 1990. "From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem." Social Problems 37:403-20. Available on reserve.
Questions: What does the law have to say about sex work? How is the industry organized, in terms of class and gender?

Regulating Sexual Commerce
Wendy Chapkis. 1997. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. NY: Routledge. Chapters 5-7.
Questions: What can we do to revise policies to improve working conditions in the sex industry? What is the difference between decriminalization and regulation?

Sociology 278: Course Syllabus - SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES
Spring 2003 - Terry Arendell Department of Sociology, Colby College

In this course we investigate and consider the historical and contemporary constructions of human sexualities from within the discipline of sociology. We explore the social aspects of human sexuality and various sexual identities and orientations or preferences. The social constructionist perspective and feminist approaches frame the course; we also look at queer theory and its relationship to sociology. Topics include: issues of human sexual desire, attraction, and gender; the interrelationship between gender and sexuality; sexual behaviors and practices; heterosexuality; lesbianism; gay male sexuality; bisexuality; transsexuality and transgenderism; and intersexuality. We consider historical shifts and developments and political movements for the expansion of the rights of people of all sexualities.

Required books available for purchase at the Colby Bookstore
Queer Theory/Sociology, Steven Seidman, editor, Blackwell
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History (Critical Perspectives on the Past), Kathy Peiss, Christina Simmons, with Robert A. Padgug , editors, Temple University
The Gender of Sexuality, Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter. Pine Forge Press
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Kate Bornstein, Vintage Books
'And Then I Became Gay': Young Men's Stories, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Routledge
Bisexuality: a Critical Reader, Merl Storr, Routledge
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation, Arlene Stein, University of California Press

Recommended: Queer by Choice, Vera Whisman, Routledge

Some additional assigned readings are on reserve at the Library, as noted on syllabus.

SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

Introduction to the Course; Introductions; Gender and Gender Bending Film: Adventures in the Sex Trade

Intersections of Gender and Sexualities: Identities, Practices
Read for 2/13 Schwartz and Rutter, The Gender of Sexuality
Chodorow excerpt: "Heterosexuality As a Compromise Formation," Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities

Historical Developments and Historical Meanings of Sexualities
Read for 2/20
Peiss & Simmons, 1, Passion and Power, An Introduction
Peiss & Simmons, 2, Padgug, Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History
Peiss & Simmons, 5, Weeks, Movements of Affirmation: Sexual Meanings and Homosexual Identities
Peiss & Simmons, 6, Chauncey, From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: The Changing Medical Conceptualization of Female "Deviance"
Film: Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community

Historical Developments and Historical Meanings of Sexualities
Read for 2/27
Peiss & Simmons, 9, Simmons, Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression
Peiss & Simmons, 10, Fee, Venereal Disease: The Wages of Sin?
Peiss & Simmons, 11, Freedman, "Uncontrolled Desires": The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960
Peiss & Simmons, 12, D'Emilio, The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America
Film: After Stonewall

Historical Developments and Historical Meanings of Sexualities
Read for 3/6
Peiss & Simmons, 7, Schwartz,
Peiss, & Simmons, "We Were a Little Band of Willful Women": The Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village
Peiss & Simmons, 4, Peiss, "Charity Girls" and City Pleasure: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1880-1920
Peiss & Simmons, 13, Kennedy & Davis, The Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach
Seidman, 13, Cole, Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and Post[Reagan] America

Sociology, Sexualities, and Contemporary Theories
Read for 3/13
Seidman, Introduction Seidman, 1, Macintosh, The Homosexual Role
Seidman, 2, Weeks, The Construction of Homosexuality
Seidman, 3, Plummer, Symbolic Interactionism and the Forms of Homosexuality Seidman, 6,
Stein & Plummer, I Can't Even Think Straight: Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology
Seidman, 7, Epstein, A Queer Encounter: Sociology and Study of Sexuality

Sociology, Sexualities, and Contemporary Theories (continued)
Read for 3/20
Seidman 8, Ingraham, The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender
Seidman 9, Namaste, The Politics of Inside/Out: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism, and a Sociological Approach to Sexuality
Seidman 10, Irvine, A Place in the Rainbow: Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Culture
Seidman 4, Greensburg & Bystryn, Capitalism, Bureaucracy, and Male Homosexuality
Recommended: Seidman 5, Adam, Structural Foundations of the Gay World

Gay Men and Masculinities
Read for 4/3
Savin-Williams, And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories
Lehne, Homophobia among Men: Supporting and Defining the Male Role, Library Reserve
Gomes, Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible, Library Reserve
Film: Growing Up Gay

Lesbian Women and Femininities
Read for 4/10
Stein, Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation
Seidman, 12, Esterberg, 'A Certain Swagger When I Walk': Performing Lesbian Identity

Bisexualities: Theoretical Developments and Approaches
Read for 4/17
Storr: Editor's Introduction, Parts I and II 1,
Ellis, Extracts from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume I: Sexual Inversion (1897) and from Studies in the Psychology of Sex Volume II: Sexual Inversion (1915)
2, Freud. Extract from Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: 1. The Sexual Aberrations (1905)
3, Stekel, Extracts from Bi-Sexual Love (1920)
4, Kinsey, Pomeroy & Martin, Extracts from Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948)
5, Klein, Extracts from The Bisexual Option: a Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978)
6, Udis-Kessler, Notes on the Kinsey Scale and Other Measures of Sexuality (1992)
7, Blumstein & Schwartz, Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues (1977)
8, Carrier, Mexican Male Bisexuality (1985)
9, Sittitrai, Tim Brown and Sirapone Virulrak Extracts from Patterns of Bisexuality in Thailand (1991)
10, George, Extracts from Women and Bisexuality (1993)
11, Clausen, Extract from My Interesting Condition (1990)
12, Valverde, Extract from Sex, Power and Pleasure (1985)

Bisexualities: Lived Experiences
Read for 4/24
Storr, Part III:
13, Eadie, Extracts from Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bisexual Politics (1993)
14, Garber, Extracts from Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995)
15, Pramaggiore, Extracts from Epistemologies of the Fence (1996)
16, Prabhudas, Bisexuals and People of Mixed-Race: Arbiters of Change (1996)
17, Daumer, Extract from Queer Ethics: or the Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics (1992)
18. Herdt, Extract from A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality (1984)
19, Ault Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: the Case of Bisexual Women (1996)
Seidman, 14, Ault, The Dilemma of Identity: Bi Women's Negotiations

Transsexuality/Transgenderism
Read for 5/1
Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Film: A Transsexual Journey

Intersexuality and the Intersex Movement
Read for 5/8
All are in Library Reserve under SO278:
Intersexuality Dreger, A History of Intersexuality: From the Age of Gonads to the Age of Consent
Wilson & Reiner, Management of Intersex: A Shifting Paradigm
Crouch, Betwixt and Between: The Past and Future of Intersexuality
Chase, Surgical Progress Is Not the Answer to Intersexuality
Kipnis and Diamond, Pediatric Ethics and the Surgical Assignment of Sex
Preves, For the Sake of the Children: Destigmatizing Intersexuality
Kessler, Meanings of Gender Variability: Constructs of Sex and Gender
Walcutt, Time for a Change
Coventry, Finding the Words
Cameron, Caught Between: An Essay on Intersexuality
Films: Hermaphrodites Speak! Is It a boy or a Girl?

Sociology of Sexuality (Spring 2006) Syllabus - SYG 4060:
Instructor: Dr. Steven Mizrach, adjunct professor, sociology/anthropology
OVERVIEW: This course deals with sexuality and society; how society controls the sexuality of its members, how sexuality is socially constructed and conceived, and the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality are just some of the topics we will examine. Although sexuality is biological in nature, it is social in its expression, and it is that relationship we will examine here.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Stambler, Mindy, et al., Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, Allyn & Bacon, Atlanta, 2004.
Chapter 1
Fausto-Sterling          Categorizing Sex
Christina                     Defining Sex
Yeoman                     Homosexuality
Chapter 2
Bullough                     Researching Sexuality
Brandt                        Tuskegee Sypillis Experiment
Chapter 3
Gamson                      Representing Sex
Lee                             The Third Sex
Chapter 4
Levine                         Learning About Sex
Stacey & Biblarz        Sexual Orientation & Parenting
Chapter 5
Bordo                         The Sexual Body
                                  (Pills & Power Tools)
Braun & Wilkinson     Representing the Vagina
Chapter 6
Gallagher                     Sexual Practices
Elmer-Dewitt               What Americans Really Do
MIDTERM EXAM    Full Exam Period
Chapter 7
Young                          Procreation
Kaplan                         Abortion
Chapter 8
Fee                               Sexual Diseases
Chapter 9
Belkin                           Social Control
Jenness                         Prostitution
Chapter 10
Gavey                           Sexual Violence
Pelka                            Male Rape
Chapter 11
Frank                            Commercial Sex
Goodwin                       Sex Traffick
Chapter “12”                 Cybersex
Last Day of Classes    Course Evaluations

SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL IDENTITIES - Winter 2006
SOCIOLOGY B/119
Prof. Steven Epstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Home page: http://sociology.ucsd.edu/~sepstein
Summary:
This course investigates the social sources of sexual meanings, values, institutions, and identities, and seeks to understand how sexuality has influenced other domains of ­society. The premise of the course is that sexuality is an important arena for sociological inquiry that has received less attention from sociologists than it deserves.
On the one hand, it is impossible to understand the fierce moral and political controversies that surround sexuality, the loaded meanings attributed to sexual experiences, or the varied social identities and social movements constructed around sexual behavior, without considering sexuality in broadly sociological terms—as a system of meaning and practice shaped by many other social institu­tions. On the other hand, we cannot fully understand other institutions studied by sociologists—including the economy; the family; the state; and systems of inequality such as gender, class, race, and nation—without investigating the ways in which sexual meanings intersect with and help shape these institutions.
The course is divided into two parts. First, we consider a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that have contributed to the sociological study of sexuality, including psycho­analytic theory, survey research, social construc­tionism, the work of Michel Foucault, and feminist theory. In addition to examining the theories as such, we will also look at some examples of scholarship that use these theories to study a wide range of topics, from sex-segregated schools to immigration policy to pornographic film production. Then, in the second part of the course, we explore contemporary arenas of controversy surrounding sexuality. These arenas include: the political economy of sex as manifested in sex work and sexual tourism; sexual colonialism; the construction of sexual identities of various kinds; intersections between sexual and racial identities; social movements based on sexual identities; and “moral panics” related to sexuality, the family, and children. We will try to understand what is at stake in the controversies surrounding these topics, and we will consider how a sociological analysis of context and meaning can help us to navigate those controversies.
Because lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and queer studies have been fundamental to the study of sexuality in general, this course will also serve as an introduction to sociological perspectives within LGBT studies and queer studies. However, the range of the course is broader than any particular set of sexual identities, and the course is open to anyone who has an interest in the general topic. The bulk of the course readings emphasize sexuality in the United States, but a number of them focus on other countries as well as on broad processes of globalization.
The course has no formal prerequisites. However, as we will be considering a series of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of sexuality, students will benefit from prior courses in sociology and, particularly, sociological theory.

PART ONE: How Do We Study Sexuality?
Thu, Jan 12: Freud and Psychoanalysis
Freud, Sigmund. 1963. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. XVI: Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. London: Hogarth, 303-38 (“The Sexual Life of Human Beings” and “The Development of the Libido”).

Tue, Jan 17: Psychoanalytic Theory in Everyday Life
Faludi, Susan. 1994. “The Naked Citadel.” The New Yorker, 5 September, 62-81.

Thu, Jan 19: Surveying Sexual Behaviors: From Kinsey to Modern Sex Research
Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin. 1948. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 3-9; 335-63 (skim); 636-41.
Kinsey, Alfred C., et al. 1953. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 4-11.
Lauman, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 35-52, 80-95, 509-40.

Tue, Jan 24: Social Constructionism and the Creation of Sexual Meaning
Plummer, Ken. 1982. “Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective.” In Human Sexual Relations, ed. Mike Brake, 223-41. New York: Pantheon.
Herdt, Gilbert. 1987. The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 101-10, 145-55.
Schalet, Amy T. 2000. “Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States and the Netherlands.” Body & Society 6, no. 1: 75-105.

Thu, Jan 26: Social Constructionism: Sexual Scripts and Their Implications
Carrillo, Héctor. 2002. The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 255-87 (Ch. 11: “Trust, Love, Passion: The Relational Context of HIV Risk”).
Escoffier, Jeffrey. 2003. “Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography.” Qualitative Sociology 26, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 531-55.

Tue, Jan 31: Foucault: Power, Knowledge, Pleasure
Foucault, Michel. 1980. History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction. New York: Vintage, 3-35, 103-105.

Thu, Feb 2: Foucaultian Analyses of Modern Sexuality
Irvine, Janice. 1995. “Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction.” In Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture, ed. Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla, 314-37. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Luibheid, Eithne. 1998. “‘Looking Like a Lesbian’: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 8, no 3, 477-506.

Tue, Feb 7: The Contested Place of Sexuality in Feminist Theory
MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1994. “Sexuality.” In Theorizing Feminism, ed. Anne C. Hermann and Abigail J. Stewart, 257-87. Boulder: Westview Press.
Vance, Carole S. 1993. “Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography.” In Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate, ed. Lynne Segal and Mary McIntosh, 29-49. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

PART TWO: Sexuality and Society: Arenas of Controversy
Thu, Feb 9: The Political Economy of Sex: Sex for Pay
Video excerpts: “Live Nude Girls Unite” (Julia Query, 2000) and “Male Escorts of San Francisco” (Matthew Link, ca. 1995)
Chapkis, Wendy. 1997. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. New York: Routledge, 69-96 (Chapter 3: “The Emotional Labor of Sex”).
Frank, Katherine. 2002. G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, 203-28 (Ch. 6: “Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body”).
Wonders, Nancy A., and Raymond Michalowski. 2001. “Bodies, Borders, and Sex Tourism in a Globalized World: A Tale of Two Cities—Amsterdam and Havana.” Social Problems 48, no. 4 (November): 545-71.

Tue, Feb 14: The Political Economy of Sex: Sexualizing Commerce
Coopersmith, Jonathan. 2000. “Pornography, Videotape, and the Internet.” IEEE Technology and Society 19, no. 1 (Spring): 27-34.
Walters, Susanna Danuta. 2001. All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 235-72 (Chapter 11: “Consuming Queers: Advertising and the Gay Market”).

Thu, Feb 16: Sexual Colonialism and the Sexualization of Race
Nagel, Joane. 2000. “Ethnicity and Sexuality.” Annual Review of Sociology 26: 107-133.
Fung, Richard. 1996. “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.” In Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience, ed. Russell Leong, 180-91. New York: Routledge.

Tue, Feb 21: Conceptualizing Identity, Constructing Identities
Weeks, Jeffrey. 1987. “Questions of Identity.” In The Cultural Construction of Sexuality, ed. Pat Caplan, 31-51. London: Tavistock.
Ponse, Barbara. 1978. Identities in the Lesbian World: The Social Construction of Self. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 169-96 (Ch. 7: “Theories and Experiences of Identity in the Lesbian World”).

Thu, Feb 23: Intersections: Racial Identities and Sexual Identities
Video excerpt: “Tongues Untied” (Marlon Riggs, 1989)
Takagi, Dana. 1994. “Maiden Voyage: Excursions into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America.” In Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience, ed. Russell Leong, 21-35. New York: Routledge.
Cohen, Cathy J. 1996. “Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS.” In Queer Theory/Sociology, ed. Steven Seidman, 362-94. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Tue, Feb 28: Identities: Hybridity and Globalization
Carrillo, Héctor. 2002. The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 31-96.

Thu, Mar 2: Identities: Proliferation and Border Wars
Video excerpts: “Transgeneration” (Jeremy Simmons, 2005)
Stone, Sandy. 1991. “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.” In Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, 280-304. New York: Routledge.
Esterberg, Kristin G. 2002. “The Bisexual Menace: Or, Will the Real Bisexual Please Stand Up?” In Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, ed. Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman, 215-27. London: Sage.

Tue, Mar 7: Collective Identities, Social Movements, and Sexual Citizenship
Adam, Barry. 1987. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. Boston: Twayne, 75-101 (Ch. 5: “Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism”).
Manalansan, Martin. 1995. “In the Shadows of Stonewall.” GLQ 2, no. 4: 425-38.
Bell, David, and Jon Binnie. 2002. “Sexual Citizenship: Marriage, the Market and the Military.” In Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, ed. Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman, 443-57. London: Sage.

Thu, Mar 9: “Moral Panics” and the Boundaries of “Appropriate” Sexuality
Rubin, Gayle S. 1993. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, 3-44. New York: Routledge.

Tue, Mar 14: Moral Panics: Sexual Threats, Children, and the Family
Video excerpt: “Capturing the Friedmans” (Andrew Jarecki, 2002; 107 min.)
Freedman, Estelle B. 1989. “‘Uncontrolled Desires’: The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960.” In Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ed. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons, 199-225. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Nathan, Debbie, and Michael Snedeker. 1995. Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt. New York: Basic Books, 67-92 (Ch. 4: “Judy Johnson and the McMartin Preschool”).

Thu, Mar 16: Moral Panics: Sexual Threats, Children, and the Family (Cont.)
Levine, Judith. 2002. Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 68-89 (Ch. 4: “Crimes of Passion: Statutory Rape and the Denial of Female Desire”).

Human Sexuality - Spring 2006
HDFS 276
Instructor: Erin Chapman
E-mail: chapman@iastate.edu
Teaching Assistants: Natalie Lonsdale & Masa Sato
E-mail: lonsdale@iastate.edu masasato@iastate.edu
Required Textbook
Carroll, J.L. (2005). Sexuality now: Embracing diversity. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Course Description:
Behavioral, biological, and psychological aspects of human sexuality within the social context of
family, culture, and society. Role of sexuality in human development. Critical analysis of media and research.
Communication and decision-making skills relating to sexuality and relationships.- Iowa State Bulletin

Course Objectives:
1. To appreciate the complexity of human sexuality as a confluence of biological, psychological,
and social factors.
2. To develop the personal security needed to discuss sexuality-related subjects maturely in
appropriate situations.
3. To maintain an academic distance/tolerance toward sexual behaviors different from your own.
4. To develop the critical acumen necessary to distinguish science from ideology in the field of
sexuality.
5. To learn the skills for accessing sexuality-related information from reputable sources.
6. To develop the habit of accessing the Internet for legitimate information regarding sexuality and
relationships.
7. To recognize and appreciate the importance of sexuality across the lifespan.
8. To develop the skills and attitudes necessary for building respectful, intimate, loving
relationships.
9. To develop a Personal Sexual Policy—an ethical/moral foundation for making decisions
regarding your sexual rights and expectations.

Course Plan
Introductions, WebCT Tour, A Sex Quiz.Why Study Sexuality?
Jan. 12 Thurs. Power & Sexual Coercion, Chap. 17 (pp. 528-555)
Jan. 17 Tues. Power & Sexual Coercion, Chap. 17 (pp. 528-555)
Jan. 19 Thurs. Intro to Theory & Research: A Sex Survey, Chap. 2 (pp. 28-57)
Jan. 24 Tues. Theory & Research in Human Sexuality, Chap. 2 (pp. 28-57)
Jan. 26 Thurs. A Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective of Female Sexuality: Anatomy & Physiology, Chap. 5 (pp. 122-149)
Jan. 31 Tues. A Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective of Male Sexuality: Anatomy & Physiology, Chap. 4 (pp. 102-118)
Feb. 2 Thurs. Challenges to Sexual Functioning: Sexual Dysfunctions & Therapies, Chap. 14 (pp. 428-456)
Feb. 7 Tues. Sexually Transmitted Infections, Chap. 15 (pp. 461-494)
Feb. 9 Thurs. EXAM 1, Chapters 2,4,5,14,15,17
Feb. 14 Tues. Conception, Pregnancy, & Childbirth, Chap. 12 (pp. 350-380)
Feb. 16 Thurs. Contraception & Abortion, Chap. 13 (pp. 385-423)
Feb. 21 Tues. Childhood & Adolescent Sexuality and Sexuality Education, Chap. 8 (pp. 205-238)
Feb. 23 Thurs. Childhood & Adolescent Sexuality and Sexuality Education, Chap. 8 (pp. 205-238)
Feb. 28 Tues. Sexual Development & Relationships in Adulthood & Later Life, Chap. 9 (pp. 242-272)
March 2 Thurs. Sexual Development & Relationship In Adulthood & Later Life, Chap. 9 (pp. 242-272)
March 7 Tues Sex & Gender: Gender Development, Gender Roles, Gender Identity, Gender Stereotypes, Chap. 3 (pp. 63-97)
March 9 Thurs. Sex & Gender: Gender Development, Gender Roles, Gender Identity, Gender Stereotypes, Chap. 3 (pp. 63-97)
March 21 Tues. Sexual Orientation Chap. 11 (pp. 314-346)
March 23 Thurs. Sexual Orientation Chap. 11 (pp. 314-346)
March 28 Tues. EXAM 2 Chap. 3,8,9,11,12,13
March 30 Thurs. Social Control of Sex TBA
April 4 Tues. Sexual Images & Selling Sex Chap. 18 (pp. 560-593)
April 6 Thurs. Love & Intimacy Chap. 7 (pp. 177-200)
April 11 Tues. Communication: Enriching Your Sexuality and Conflict in Relationships, Chap. 6 (pp. 154-172)
April 13 Thurs. Communication: Enriching Your Sexuality and Conflict in Relationships, Chap. 6 (pp. 154-172)
April 18 Tues. Sexual Expression Chap. 10 (pp. 277-310)
April 20 Thurs. Varieties of Sexual Expression: Atypical Sexual Behaviors, Chap. 16 (pp. 499-524)
April 25 Tues. Varieties of Sexual Expression Chap. 16 (pp. 499-524)

SYLLABUS: MEN, WOMEN, AND SOCIETIES - Spring 2006
Dr. Patti A. Giuffre - pg07@txstate.edu SOCI 3350 (Section 1)

Course description/objectives: We are born male or female. We become masculine or feminine. This course will explore the social and cultural construction of gender differences, focusing on contemporary issues. Some of the course material will examine sex and gender internationally. The course begins with a description of the sociological approach to the study of men and women and how it differs from other perspectives. We will examine the ways that boys/men and girls/women are socialized differently. Next we will explore gender differences in social institutions, including education, the family, and the workplace. We then discuss gender differences in intimacy and friendships. The course will conclude by examining different types of feminisms as well as questions about social change.
By the end of this course you should be able to understand and apply
(1) a sociological approach to the study of men and women;
(2) the social construction of gender in social institutions;
(3) the social construction of gender in relationships;
(4) sociological methods and theories; and
(5) sociological concepts and theories to your personal experiences and to your observations of others.
By the end of this course you should also be able to engage in critical thinking. Critical thinkers are able to
• understand many sides to an issue, even if they disagree with the arguments presented;
• analyze course material actively; and
• set aside their personal beliefs and values in order to understand issues from a scientific perspective.
Required textbook:
Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine. 2004. The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and
Possibilities. Thompson-Wadsworth: Australia.

CLASS SCHEDULE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS: I reserve the right to alter the reading
assignments and to change exam dates if needed.
Introduction to the Sociology of Sex and Gender: Basic Concepts
W 1/18 First day of class--welcome!
M 1/23, W 1/25 The sociological approach to the study of sex and gender. Sociological theories.
Reading: “Introduction” pp. 1-11
M 1/30, W 2/1 Biological approaches to the study of men and women and the sociological critique. Is there a
biological link between sex (being male and female) and gender (being masculine or feminine)? Is “anatomy
destiny?”
Reading: pp. 14-21 and “The Trouble with Testosterone” by Sapolsky, pp. 46-51
M 2/6, W 2/8 Transgendered and intersexed people or when sex and gender don't "match": The sociological
and scientific implications
Reading: “Sexing the Intersexed,” by Preves, pp. 31-45
“What It Means to Be Gendered Me,” by Lucal, pp. 52-63
M 2/13, W 2/15 Cultural differences in gender: How do beliefs about gender vary among different cultures?
How do definitions of masculinity and femininity vary globally? Why are these differences important to sociologists?
Reading: pp. 114-120
“Multiple Genders among North American Indians” by Nanda, pp. 64-70
“Gender and Power” by Lepowsky, pp.150-159
M 2/20 Gender and Other Social Locations (Race, Social Class, and others)
Reading: pp. 71-77
“Race, Gender and Class in the Lives of Asian Americans” by Espiritu, pp. 90-94
“ Macho”: Contemporary Conceptions” by Mirande` pp. 95-103
W 2/22, M 2/27 Socialization in the U.S.: How do boys and girls learn to become masculine and feminine?
Reading: pp.164-167; 169-170
“Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone: Race, Class, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Middle
Childhood” by McGuffey and Rich, pp. 172-182
W 3/1 EXAM 1
Students will be permitted to see their exams with correct/incorrect answers during the last 15
minutes of class on M 3/6. Students are not allowed to keep their exams.
Gender in Social Institutions
M 3/6, W 3/8 Gender and Education
Reading: pp. 167-168
“The Chilly Climate: Subtle Ways in Which Women Are Often Treated Differently at Work and in
Classrooms” by Sandler, pp. 187-190
“Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation” by Tanenbaum, pp. 213-219
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 13-17
M 3/20, W 3/22 Gender, Consumerism, Culture, and Capitalism
Reading: pp. 220-225
“The More You Subtract, The More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size” by Kilbourne, pp. 234-
243
“The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideas of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture” by Urla
and Swedlund, pp. 245-256
M 3/27, W 3/29, M 4/3 Gender and the Workplace
Reading: pp. 332-345
“Gendering the Market: Temporality, Work, and Gender on a National Futures Exchange” by Levin,
pp. 356-363
“Gender, Social Inequalities, and Retirement Income” by Calasanti and Selvin, pp. 370-376
"Sexual Harassment and Masculinity: The Power and Meaning of 'Girl Watching,'" by Quinn, pp.
472-480
APRIL 3, PAPER DUE
W 4/5, M 4/10 Gender and Intimacy, Gender and Families
Reading: pp. 395-402
Friendship: “Men, Women, and Friendship: What They Say, What They Do” by Walker, pp. 403-
412
Families: “Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two
Generations of Work and Family Change” by Gerson, pp. 413-424
Parenting: “Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice” by Clark, pp. 425-
W 4/12 EXAM 2--Students will be able to see their exams at the end of class on M 4/17 or W 4/19
M 4/17, W 4/19 Gender and Bodies
Reading: pp. 279-285
“Men Are Real, Women Are ‘Made Up’: Beauty Therapy and the Construction Femininity” by
Black and Sharma, pp. 286-295
“Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” by Mernissi, pp. 297-301
M 4/24 Gender, Social Control, and Violence
pp. 448-453
“Escape from Animal House: Frat Boy Tells All” by Straus, pp. 462-465
“Sexual Trafficking in Women” by Bertone, pp. 466-471
W 4/26 and M 5/1 Social Change; Feminisms (5/1--Last class day)
pp. 489-495; pp. 552-556
“Unraveling the Gender Knot” by Johnson, pp. 511-520

Abstracts

Sexualities: Identity, Behavior, and Society. Edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Rebecca F. Plante. Oxford University Press,
New York. 2004. ISBN: 0-19-515760-5 (paper) Retails to students for $44.95
Sexualities: Identity, Behavior, and Society focuses on gender, using multiple disciplines, international populations, and theories to explore sexualities. The readings—including several written specifically for this volume - will grab students' attention. Topics range from the motivations of X-rated movie stars to vibrator use to gendered sexual fantasies. Samesex orientation, people of color and global populations are considered throughout.
Sexualities: Identity, Behavior, and Society opens with classical and contemporary theories about sexualities, including selections by Freud, Kinsey, and Fausto-Sterling. Subsequent chapters explore the ways in which we learn about sexual activities and develop sexual identities, both heterosexual and same sex. The discussion expands to include sexual adaptations, sexual media, intersections with violence, and sex education. The text ends with a key question: How will the next generation be taught about sex?
With its synthesized focus on the psychological, social, ethical, and political discussions of sexualities, this book is ideal for courses in sociology, women's studies, anthropology, family studies, communication, and social work.

Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World.
By Amy Agigian.
This book explores the controversial implications of lesbian insemination. Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family- making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family. How, and why, do lesbians use insemination to build their families? How could it best be protected by law? Is insemination the ultimate in lesbian liberation, or a sell-out to nuclear family norms? How are race, class, feminism, and human engineering involved? Drawing on legal findings and personal interviews, as well as medical and psychoanalytic research, sociologist Amy Agigian looks at the impact and potential of this form of reproduction. Baby Steps is the first in-depth discussion of the issues and questions raised by lesbian insemination, and the book has been designed to serve the interests of general readers and health care providers as well as teachers and students in women’s studies, gay and lesbian studies, sociology, legal studies, and bioethics.
“Baby Steps is a fascinating study of the world of lesbian alternative insemination. Agigian has taken the unique step of critiquing the institutions and society in which lesbian families exist, rather than the families and conception methods themselves. In doing so, she brings into focus the institutional discrimination that has been perpetrated against lesbian families, particularly within the medical and legal systems, and justly argues that such reactions require radical revision. She tracks the politicization of lesbian alternative insemination
from an invisible and largely autonomous practice to its commercialization and mainstreaming, which although medically safer, shifts the reproductive control and accessibility.”—Dr. Ruth McNair, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
“Baby Steps presents a fascinating glance at our cultural and technological possibilities for a more gender- fluid and nurture-centered future.”—Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage “Patriarchy is a longstanding, durable institution and this book exhilarates any reader - heterosexual or lesbian - who is weary of living under its mantle.” - Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Vermont and author of Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth You may order Baby Steps through your local bookseller, or by calling University Press of New England at 1-800-421-1561.

Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity Editors: Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schaffner (Routledge: Fall 2004).

God, Sex and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies. Dawne Moon (University of Chicago Press, 2004). God, Sex and Politics is an ethnographic study which draws from and contributes to theories in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sexuality, as it seeks to make sense of debates about homosexuality in two United Methodist congregations, one theologically liberal and the other conservative. In it, Moon seeks to discover what makes these debates so explosive, and finds that these debates threaten to expose incompatible beliefs about who or what God is and what God demands of people with regard to sexuality, sin, conflict and politics. She examines how emotion languages figure into these debates, allowing members to distance their concerns from what the y consider “politics” while positing gay men and lesbians as “pained.” Library Journal: While there have been plenty of books written about religion and gays, there is little ethnographic accounting of how particular religious communities grapple with the issues. Moon takes us to two Methodist congregations: one situated in a large urban environment, the other in a small town about 70 miles away. The congregations and the
individuals in them are portrayed pseudonymously, but Moon imbues the debates and conflicts with vivid realism. The urban congregation was in the midst of selfexamination about whether or not to join the "Reconciling Congregations Program," a movement with American Methodism to welcome sexual minorities explicitly. A substantial group of members of the other congregation were involved in another organization called "Transforming Congregations," which is more conservative in approach. Some of the core issues of Christianity are raised and contested: the nature of sin, the role of politics, and the relationship of Scripture and experience. The book shows how people put into effect their beliefs on a specific issue (in this case, homosexuality) when faced with the broader questions. Moon has an unusual ability to explain social science theory clearly and give a three-dimensional report on real people grappling with issues that are very important to them. Both general and academic readers will find much in this book to commend. -David Azzolina, Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib., Philadelphia Copyright 2004.

Journals

Sexualities News - Newsletter of the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the
American Sociological Association Volume 7, Issue 1 Summer - 2004