HIST 0707 - SEX AND GENDER: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
How do ideas of sex and sexuality change over time? Can we understand global history through the lens of sex? This course will survey topics in global history and the history of sex and sexuality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. We will explore continuities and changes in the definitions of sex and sexualities, the science and politics of sex and reproduction, the relationships between sex, sexuality, and imperialism, the sexual construction of social and cultural differences in different nations, changing portrayals of sex and sexuality by the state and by the media, social and legal activism with regard to issues of sex and sexuality, and the value of using sex and sexuality as a historical framework for issues in social, cultural, and political history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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