Queer Liberation Not Rainbow Capitalism
"Queer Liberation Not Rainbow Capitalism", Aloyisius, CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
How have issues like same-sex sexuality, reproductive control, sex work, pornography, and non-marital sex shaped the United States? How has the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, gender, citizenship, and family contributed to experiences and expectations of sexuality in the United States? Drawing on feminist scholarship, queer theory, LGBTQ+ studies, history, law, and sociology, HDEV 357 examines the history of how sexualities have been regulated in the United States from the colonial era to the present. The course analyzes the changing sexual habits and beliefs in the United States and the historical impact of laws and other regulatory mechanisms as they formed, surveilled, regulated, and criminalized various sexualities in the United States, as well as the history of resistance to these regulations.
The historical timeline assignment asks students to collectively create a thematic annotated historical timeline using both course readings as well as scholarly sources that they find through their independent library research. Each group has significant creative latitude in crafting an organizing theme for the historical timeline and presenting several key thematically relevant historical events to represent their chosen theme.