

Required Reading List Dangerous Bedfellows, eds. Secondary sources (historical and theoretical source material Photographic studies, audio/video presentations, etc) with Will combine primary research (oral histories, interviews, Projects related to ethnographies of gender, sexual identity,Īnd urban community in the New York City area.

Final projects: students will conduct individual or group.Occasional audio/video supplements to readings.Weekly readings (and possible reaction papers).Parallels) between mainstream, alternative, and “queer” and the social, political, and cultural distinctions (and.health care and health education, with a special emphasis onĬommunities forged around HIV prevention and AIDS education.patterns of recreation and consumption for gay and straight.the economic and political role of sexual commerce and sexual.how different communities define private, public, and.the creation and maintenance of multiple urban identities.Issues related to gender, geography, and community. Sociological, and theoretical writings about a wide variety of Students will read and respond to many different historical, Landscape exacerbate the roots of racism, sexism, and homophobia? We will ask questions such as:Īre gender and sexuality defining features of the urbanĮxperience? Or are they only components of a much larger and moreĬomplex set of urban identities? In what ways do the classĭivisions and political tensions already implicit the urban Greater sense of the complex relationships between the personalĪnd the political in urban culture. Protect and defend those identities, we will be able to make Sexual identities, as well as the communities that people form to Ideas found at the intersection of urban studies, cultural Metropolitan Studies as a major to some important questions and This course will introduce students who are considering Serlin: Sexual Identity and Urban Community Sexual Identity
