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The Pink Book2011-2012 Courses in LGBT Studies
Courses that Centrally Address Issues in LGBT Studies WGSS 200a [HIST127|AMST135] U.S. Lesbian and Gay History George Chauncey TTh 10:30-11:20 (1 HTBA) An introduction to the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual minorities. Focus on understanding categories of sexuality in relation to shifting normative regimes, primarily in the twentieth century. The emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements. WGSS 296a Introduction to LGBT Studies* Liz Montegary T Th 11:35-12:50 Study of works that have as their theme gay and lesbian experience and identity since the late nineteenth century. Works include fiction and autobiographical texts, historical and sociological materials, texts on queer theory, and films. Focus on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. WGSS 319a Queer Mobilities Liz Montegary M W 11:35-12:50 Ways in which histories of travel, immigration, and displacement shape the formation of sexual identities, communities, and politics. Rural and suburban movements; experiences of escape and exile; immigration, asylum, and diaspora; surveillance, imprisonment, and war; narratives of rescue; political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the lesbian and gay tourism industry. WGSS 348b Selected Topics in Lesbian and Gay History George Chauncey T 1:30-3:20 Changing understandings and regulation of same-sex desire and sexual subjectivity from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Interpretation of primary texts in the context of recent theory and historiography. Texts include sermons, diaries, correspondence, police and court records, medical and sociological studies, political tracts, fiction, photographs, and films. WGSS 402a Homosexual Desire in East Asian Literature* John Treat W 2:30-4:30 Survey of homosexual themes in traditional and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature. WGSS 418b Privacy, Privatization, and Queer Cultures* Liz Montegary T Th 11:35-12:50 Queer critiques of neoliberal discourses of privacy and processes of privatization. Examination of queer scholarship and activism on privacy rights, marriage equality, and military service. The effects of prison and university privatization on marginalized queer communities. The past, present, and future of queer public cultures.
Courses that Include LGBT Studies Perspectives WGSS 110a [SOCY 134a] Sex and Gender in Society Rene Almeling M W 10:30-11:20 Introduction to the social processes through which people are categorized in terms of sex and gender, and how these social processes shape individual experiences of the world. Sex and gender in relation to race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, education, work, family, reproduction, and health. WGSS 236b Masculinity and Militarization* Liz Montegary M W 11:35-12:50 Historical and theoretical analysis of the relationship between masculinities and the U.S. military. Ways in which histories of colonial conquest and contemporary practices of empire shape discourse about manhood in relation to race and nation. Militarized processes underpinning the regulation of racialized, sexualized, and disabled masculinities. The extension of militarized constructions of masculinity into everyday life in the United States. WGSS 309b [AFAM 394b/AMST 309b] Toni Morrison* Naomi Pabst T 3:30-5:20 Analysis of Toni Morrison's speeches, interviews, essays, and eight novels. Examination of race, gender, class, sexuality, identity, and memory in Morrison's work. WGSS 315b [PSYC 342b] Psychology of Gender Marianne LaFrance M W 2:30-3:40 Exploration of the relationship between gender and psychological processes at individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cross-cultural levels.
WGSS 336a [AFAM 327a/ER&M 399a/AMST 373a] American Literary Nationalisms GerShun Avilez T 9:25-11:15 The influence of nationalist frameworks on American artistic production in 1960s and 1970s. The treatment of gender expression in nationalist sentiments. Focus on writings by and about the Black Arts Movement, the Chicano Movement, the Young Lords Party, Asian American nationalism, and feminist and queer organizing. Works by Arturo Islas, Alice Walker, Frank Chin, Gloria Anzaldua, Amiri Baraka, and Maxine Kingston. WGSS 339b [ENGL 385b] Feminist Fictions * Margaret Homans W F 11:35-12:50 Historical survey of works of fiction that have shaped feminist and queer thought from the late eighteenth century to the present. Authors include Wollstonecraft, C. Brontë, H. Jacobs, C. P. Gilman, Chopin, Woolf, Hurston, Wittig, LeGuin, Morrison, Anzaldua, and Winterson. WGSS 340a Feminist and Queer Theory* Inderpal Grewal W 1:30-3:20 Advanced theoretical approaches in feminism and queer studies. Readings from key texts include postcolonial, transnational, and critical race perspectives. WGSS 376b [AMST 136b//FILM 444b] Sexual Modernity and Censorship in American Film * Ronald Gregg T 7-9 pm W 1:30-3:20 Romantic comedy, censorship, and the representation of sexual modernity in Hollywood film from the 1920s to the 1960s. Tensions between the studios' censorship code and émigré filmmakers' strategies to subvert it. Focus on the romantic comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, with some attention to the films of Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. WGSS 385b [ER&M 330b] Latina and Latino Sexualities Julio Capo W 3:30-5:20 The Latina and Latino experience in the modern era explored using sexuality as a methodological tool. Ways in which changing perceptions of sexuality inform and influence a broad range of issues, including the construction of ethnicity, race, and class, the creation of ethnic enclaves, assimilation, public health, reproduction, homosexuality, legal status, U.S. immigration policy, and U.S. foreign policy for Latin America and the Caribbean WGSS 388a [AMST 326/AFAM 349] Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation Crystal Feimster T 2:30-4:20 The dynamic relationship between the civil rights movement and the women's liberation movement from 1940 to the present. When and how the two movements overlapped, intersected, and diverged. The variety of ways in which African Americans and women campaigned for equal rights in the twentieth century. Topics include World War II, freedom summer, black power, the Equal Rights Amendment, feminism, abortion, affirmative action, and gay rights.
WGSS 389b [AFAM 389b/ENGL 371b] Sexuality in African American Literature and Popular Culture GerShun Avilez Th 9:25-11:15 Sexual imagery and content in African American literature and popular culture. Ways that artists and social critics understand the relationship between sexual identity and racial identity. Writers and artists include Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Spike Lee, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Patricia H. Collins, Mark Anthony Neal, and Audre Lorde. WGSS 398b Junior Seminar: Theory and Method* Liz Montegary T 7:00-8:50 Advanced theoretical approaches in feminism and queer studies. Readings from key texts include postcolonial, transnational, and critical race perspectives.
WGSS 451b [AMST 449b] Photography and Memory: Public and Private Lives Laura Wexler Th 1:30-3:20 Photographs as a source for the creation of public and private memory in the United States, 1839 to the present. WGSS 459b [ANTH 455b] Masculinity and Men’s Health Marcia Inhorn M 2:30-4:20 An exploration of ethnographic approaches to masculinity and men's health around the globe. Issues of ethnographic research design and methodology; interdisciplinary theories of masculinity; contributions of men's health studies from Western and non-Western sites to social theory, ethnographic scholarship, and health policy. WGSS 466a [PSYC 414a] Gender Images: A Psychological Perspective Marianne LaFrance M W 2:30-3:45 The social, cultural, and political history of American medicine from 1945 to 1960. The defeat of national health insurance; racism in health care; patient activism; the role of gender in defining medical professionalism and family health; the rise of atomic medicine; McCarthyism in medicine; and the polio vaccine trials and the making of science journalism. WGSS 471a/WGSS 471b Independent Directed Study * Maria Trumpler For students who wish to explore an aspect of women's, gender, and sexuality studies not covered by existing courses. The course may be used for research or directed readings and should include one lengthy or several short essays. Students meet with their adviser regularly. To apply for admission, students present a prospectus to the director of undergraduate studies along with a letter of support from the adviser. The prospectus must include a description of the research area, a core bibliography, and the expected sequence and scope of written assignments. WGSS 490a/WGSS 490b The Senior Colloquium * Maria Trumpler HTBA Advanced theoretical approaches in feminism and queer studies. Readings from key texts include postcolonial, transnational, and critical race perspectives. WGSS 750a [AMST 770/HIST 770] Research in Gender and Sexuality George Chauncey & Joanne Meyerowitz Students conduct research in primary sources and write original monographic essays on the history of gender and sexuality. Readings include key theoretical works as well as journal articles that might serve as models for student research projects.
LGBT Topics in Courses Outside of WGSS
AMST 390a: Junior Seminar: Dance Music and Nightlife Culture in New York City This course explores the dance music and nightlife culture of New York City. Special attention is paid to race, gender, and sexuality. Topics include Harlem cabarets, the regulation of nightlife, mega clubs, glamour, vogueing and house ball culture, b-boys, DJs, and genres such as disco, hip-hop, techno, and dubstep. Readings include Chauncey, Schechner, Grazian, Hughes, Vogel. A creative final project.
AFAM 187a [ANTH261/LAST187] Sexuality in the Caribbean and Latin America Jafari Allen MW 10.30-11.20 Introduction to the anthropological study of sexuality in the Caribbean and Latin American regions. Aspects of sexuality celebrated in popular culture as central parts of social life, as well as those steeped in silence and public invisibility. Sexuality as an engine of tourism. Includes field trips to museums, cultural centers, and/or performances. ENGL 410b The World of James Merrill Langdon Hammer W 3:30-5:20 James Merrill's life and writing in the context of Keats, Proust, Stevens, Yeats, Cavafy, Rilke, Mallarmé, Auden, Bishop, Mozart, and Wagner. Topics include the occult, homosexuality from the era of the Closet to AIDS, psychoanalysis, New York School painting and poetry, Japanese theater, cosmopolitanism, Greece in the 1960s, environmental catastrophe, and the use of biography in literary criticism.
REL 644b Christianity and Social Power Kathryn Tanner M 3:30-5:20 This course examines intersections between Christian theology and issues of sociopolitical equality through the study of historical cases. Cases include Christian justifications of hierarchical rule in the early church, medieval arguments over the status of women in church and society, controversies over "New World" colonization, leveling movements in the English civil war, arguments for and against slavery in the United States, nineteenth-century reactions to democratic reform movements on the continent, and contemporary controversies over the ordination of women and gays. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Pink Book is compiled from courses listed online in the Yale College Programs of Study (Blue Book) . These courses are for the 2011-2012 academic year. Consult the Yale Online Course Information Website, www.yale.edu/courseinfo for classroom locations and updated meeting times. Courses are arranged by WGSS course number, Fall 2011 courses indicated with an "a" following the course number, and "b" for spring 2012 The Pink Book is published by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (LGBTS). Office location: WLH 316 Phone: 203 432 7737 E-mail: lgbts@yale.edu Visit our web site at www.yale.edu/lgbts * = Permission of instructor required
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