SOC 388 - Sociology of Sex, Sexualities and the Interpretation of Desire (4)

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Focuses on the idea that sexualities and desire are mediated through social processes and identity categories. Sexuality has both a history and a sociology that increasingly recognizes the importance of sexualities and desire in the construction of the self. Major foci include the construction of sexual identity categories, the construction of sexual scripts, the secularization of sexuality, the transformation of intimacy, the politicization of sexuality, and organized resistance to the social control and regulation of sexualities and desire. Employing sociological, feminist, queer and critical heterosexual studies perspectives, issues of sexuality and desire (from (“normative” to “unsafe” and “perverse”) will be explored through the lens of gender, race, and class. Odd years Spring.