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Calendar

Lec # Topics Key Dates
1 What is "Queer"? Sexual Identity as Historically Situated
2 Medicalization and the "Birth of the Homosexual"
3 Homosexuality and the Hollywood Production Code
4 Science, History, and Theories of Gender and Sexual Identity First response paper due
5 Psychoanalysis and Sexual Identity
6 The Invert, Third Sex, and Lesbians in History Second response paper due
7 Stonewall, the Closet, and Gay Marriage
8 AIDS and a Changing Sexual Culture Third response paper due
9 Lesbian Feminism and Queer Politics
10 Performativity, Drag, and Gender Identity
11 Transsexuals and the Mutability of Gender Fourth response paper due
12 Butch/Femme Identities and Female Masculinity
13 Contemporary Portrayals of Sexuality: Queer Images, Television, Photography, and Censorship Final projects due at the end of course