AP/POLS 3011 3.00

The Politics of Sexuality/Sexual Politics

Human sexuality has become a contested site of political and social conflicts. Since the 1980's research has challenged popular conceptions of sex as a natural and biological force. The course explores the socio-political construction of sexualities through the fields of psychoanalysis, law, sexology, and popular culture. Focusing on Canada, the United States and Britain from the nineteenth century to the present, the course investigates a range of subjects: gender identity, heterosexuality, homosexuality, transsexuality, bisexuality, 'femininity', 'masculinity', transgender, sexual representation, pornography, and disease.