Fall 2009
Lesbian and Gay Literature before Stonewall
LGBTS/English/Women's Studies M101A
Instructor: Arthur Little
Survey of lesbian and gay literature in English from earlier periods through 1960s. Works by such authors as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, E.M. Forster, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, William S. Burroughs, John Rechy, Audre Lorde, and Edward Albee.
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
LGBTS/Women's Studies M114
Instructor: James A. Schultz
Introduction to history, politics, culture, and scientific study of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people; examination of sexuality and gender as categories for investigation; interdisciplinary theories and research on minority sexualities and genders.
Chicana Lesbian Literature
LGBTS/Chicana and Chicano Studies/Women's Studies M133
Instructor: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Exploration of intersection of radical First and Third World feminist politics, lesbian sexuality and its relationship to Chicana identity, representation of lesbianism in Chicana literature, meaning of "familia" in Chicana lesbian lives, and impact of Chicana lesbian theory on Chicana/Chicano studies.
Gay and Lesbian Perspectives in Pop Music
LGBTS/Music History M137
Instructor: Mitchell Morris
Survey of English-language popular music in the 20th century, with focus on lesbians, gay men, and members of other sexual minorities as creators, performers, and audience members.
Queer Cinema and Film Theory
LGBTS 187.1
Instructor: Cheryl Dunye
WINTER 2010
Divas in Song: Women, the Hollywood Studio System, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Audiences
LGBTS/Music History 98T
Instructor: Ross Fenimore
Thursday 2:00–4:50
Musical styles that shaped divas in Hollywood studio system from 1930 to period of reorganization after U.S. versus Paramount Pictures (1948), with emphasis on role of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender audiences.
Lesbian and Gay Literature After Stonewall
LGBTS/English M101B
Instructor: Arthur Little
Tuesday / Thursday 12:00–1:50
Survey of lesbian and gay literature in English since 1969, year of Stonewall Riots in New York City, commonly recognized as beginning of modern lesbian and gay culture. Works by such authors as Adrienne Rich, Jane Rule, Maureen Duffy, Brigid Brophy, Larry Kramer, Bertha Harris, Edmund White, Rita Mae Brown, Alan Hollinghurst, and Emma Donahue.
Queering American History
LGBTS/Women’s Studies M118
Instructor: James Schultz
Tuesday / Thursday 2:00–3:15
Analysis of the changing social organization and cultural meaning of same-sex relations and cross-gender phenomena in the United States, primarily during the twentieth century. We will examine the emergence of heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality as the predominant categories of sexual experience and identity; the prior and continuing importance of cross-gender behaviors and identities both in their own right and in relation to same-sexuality; the contested boundaries between same-sex sociability, friendship, and eroticism; the development of lesbian and gay subcultures; the emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political movements; the significance of gender, class, racial and ethnic differences.
The Psychology of Lesbian Experience
LGBTS/ Psychology/Women’s Studies M147A
Instructor: Linda Garnets
Monday / Wednesday 10:00–11:30
Review of research and theory in psychology and women's studies to examine various aspects of lesbian experience, impact of heterosexism/stigma, gender role socialization, minority status of women and lesbians, identity development within a multicultural society, changes in psychological theories about lesbians in sociohistorical context.
Public Intimacies: Queering Kinship, Law and Culture
LGBTS 187
Instructor: Kathryn Oliviero
Tuesday 3:00–5:50
Exploration of queer and normative constructions of intimacy within law, performance, arts, and literature to assess their attached political and imagined meanings. Examination of significant 20th- and 21st-century public policies and their articulation of proper relations between state, private intimacy, individual freedom, and public good. Prominent legal decisions considered in conjunction with historical documents such as Moynihan report, racialized discourses of welfare queens, "don't ask, don't tell," and 21st-century governmental fatherhood and marriage initiatives. Queer and feminist critiques of these formulations (e.g., Franke, Warner, Ruskola, Halley, Fineman, and Polikoff). Survey of queer visions of intimacy in performance, literature, and art (films: Paris is Burning, Southern Comfort; novels: Dunn's Geek Love, McCuller's The Member of the Wedding; and Opie's photography).
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Education and Law
Education 147
Instructor: Stuart Biegel
Wednesday / Friday 11:00 – 12:50
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related controversies that arise in schools, colleges, and universities today and how they are being addressed by legal and education communities. In particular, examination of real-life consequences of current laws and exploration of what might be done to make things better for all persons.
