Homosexuality (Soc 831) Juan Battle ([email protected]) Fall, 2012 (212) 817.8775

Homosexuality (Soc 831) Juan Battle (Jbattle@Gc.Cuny.Edu) Fall, 2012 (212) 817.8775

Missing! Marginal! Misrepresented! In delineating the experiences of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people, this course draws on various bodies of scholarship – historical, social scientific, and literary – to reveal the multiple and intersecting social forces that have shaped their place, or lack thereof, in U.S. society. Notably, this course also pays attention to how gays, lesbians, and bisexuals themselves have resisted and questioned dominant notions of place, based on the racial and sexual hierarchy.

Because students will be exposed to (and contribute from) a wide variety of perspectives on the subject, this course is appropriate for students in the traditional social sciences (e.g. sociology, anthropology, psychology, urban education, and history) as well as more contemporary ones (e.g. women‟s studies, race studies, American studies, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies).

Grading – Grading will be a combination of a paper or proposal (40%); presentation(s) (40%); and class participation, assessment of which is the sole discretion of the professor (20%).

Prerequisite – None.

Required Texts: Coursepack(s)

Collins, Patricia Hill. (2004). Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism. New York: Routledge.

D‟Emilio, J. and E. Freedman. (1988). Intimate matters: A history of sexuality in America. New York: Harper and Row.

Delaney, Sam. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

Foucault, Michel. (1978). The history of sexuality: An introduction: Volume 1. New York: Vintage Books.

* Rahman, Morin & Stevi Jackson. 2010. Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, politics, and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800. London: Longman, 1981.

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Course Outline: Week 1 – Aug. 27 Social Movements (Homo)Sexuality Theoretical Perspectives Critical Moments & Timeline: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html Week 2 – Sept. 10 Survey of Gender Week 3 – Sept. 24 Survey of Sexuality Week 4 – Oct. 1 Historical Perspectives Week 5 – Oct. 10 Post Modernity & the Social Construction of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual (Wed.) and Queer Identities Week 6 – Oct. 15 Compulsory Heterosexuality & Homonormativity Week 7 – Oct. 22 Latinos Week 9 – Nov. 5 Blacks Week 10 – Nov. 12 N. Americans & Asians (South, East, & Southeast) Week 11 – Nov. 19 Global Perspectives: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East Week 12 – Nov. 26 Gender Variant Movement, Expressions, and Experiences Week 13 – Dec. 3 Queer Bodies Week 14 – Dec. 10 Life Course Experiences Week 15 – Dec. 17 Sex, Sex Work, and more …

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Week 1 – Aug. 27 Social Movements (Homo)Sexuality Theoretical Perspectives Critical Moments & Timeline: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html

Read: 10 Seidman, Steven. Theoretical Perspectives. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

Suggested Readings: Adam, Barry. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Rimmerman, C. (2001). From identity to politics: The lesbian and gay movements in the United States. Temple University Press.

Week 2 – Sept. 10

Survey of Gender

Read: 22 Butler, Judith. 1988. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory. Theater Journal, 40 (4): 519-531. 36 Chase, Cheryl. 1998. “Hermaphrodites With Attitudes: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Activism.” GlQ 4(2): 189-211

60 Collins, Patricia Hill. 2006. “Will the „Real‟ Mother Please Stand Up?” in From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism. Temple University Press.

70 Kimmel, Michael. Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame and silence in the construction of gender identity. In H. Brod & M. Kaufman (Eds.), Theorizing masculinities (pp. 119–141). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1994.

88 Martin, Emily. 1991. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” Signs, 16(3):485-501.

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106 Mullings, Leith. 1995. “Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender” Eds Ginsburg and Rapp Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. University of California Press.

116 Preves, Sharon. Unruly Bodies: Intersex Variations of Sex Development. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

1 Rahman, Morin & Stevi Jackson. 2010. Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches. Malden, MA: Polity Press. Introduction, Part I, and Part II. Pages 1 thru 100.

Suggested Readings:

De Beauvoir, Simone. 2011 (1949). The Second Sex. New York: Vintage Books.

Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.

Week 3 – Sept. 24 Survey of Sexuality

Read: 123 Gamson, Joshua. Popular Culture Constructs Sexuality. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 128 Longmore, M. A. (1998). Symbolic interactionism and the study of sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research, 35, 44-57.

1 Rahman, Morin & Stevi Jackson. 2010. Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches. Malden, MA: Polity Press. Part III, Part IV, and Part V. Pages 101 thru 210. 144 Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In H. Abelove, M. Borale and D. Helperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993), New York, Routledege.

182 Valentine, David. The Categories Themselves. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Pages 215-220.

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Suggested Readings: Seidman, Steven. (2003). The social construction of sexuality. New York: Norton & Company.

Week 4 – Oct. 1 Historical Perspectives

Read: D‟Emilio, J. and E. Freedman. (1988). Intimate matters: A history of sexuality in America. New York: Harper and Row.

Foucault, Michel. (1978). The history of sexuality: An introduction: Volume 1. New York: Vintage Books.

188 Halperin, David M. 1989. “Is There a History of Sexuality?” History and Theory, 28 (3): 257-274.

Suggested Readings: Epstein, Steven. “Gay and Lesbian Movements in the United States.” The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics. Eds. Adam, Duyvendak, and Krouwel. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1999

Greenberg, David. (1988). The construction of homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, politics, and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800. London: Longman, 1981.

Week 5 – Oct. 10 (Wed.) Post Modernity & the Social Construction of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Identities

Read: 208 Bersani, Leo. 1987. “Is the Rectum a Grave?” October 43: 197-222.

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237 Gamson, Joshua (1995). “Must Identity Movements Self-destruct? A Queer Dilemma.” Social Problems, 42 (3): 390-407. 257 Gurevich et al. 2007. “What Do They Look Like and Are They Among Us?: Bisexuality, (Dis) closure and (Un) viability” in Out in Psychology: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer perspectives eds by Victoria Clarke and Elizabeth Peel. John Wiley & Sons. 285 Rodriguez Rust, Paula. Bisexuals in America. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 294 Shepard, Benjamin (2001) “The Queer/Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts.” Monthly Review, 53, 1. 304 Warner, Michael. 1999. “Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet” Social Text, 29, 3-17. 323 Wittig, Monique. 1993. One is not born a woman. In H. Abelove, M. Borale and D. Helperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York, Routledege.

Suggested Readings: Jagose, Annamarie (1996) Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press.

Week 6 – Oct. 15 Compulsory Heterosexuality & Homonormativity

Read: 330 Bernstein, Mary. The Marriage Contract. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 336 D‟Emilio, John. (1983) “Capitalism and Gay Identity.” Eds. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Tompson. New York: Montly Review Press, 1983. 103-110.

344 Duggan, Lisa. “Queering the State.” Social Text , No. 39 (Summer, 1994): 1-14.

362 Ingraham, Chrys. One Is Not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 368 Puar, Jasbir. 2005. “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages.” Social Text 84-85, 23 (3-4).

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388 Puri, Jyoti. Sexuality, State, and Nation. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

397 Rich, Adrienne. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. Signs, 5(4) (1980): 631-660.

Suggested Readings: Vaid, Urvashi. (1995). Virtual equality: The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Duggan, Lisa. 2004. The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and The Attack on Democracy. Beacon Press.

Week 7 – Oct. 22 Latinos Read: 426 Arevalo, Sandra and Amaro, Hortensia. Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 438 Ayala, George. Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 443 Calvo, Luz and Esquibel, Catriona Rueda. Latina Lesbianas, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 456 Gonzalez Lopez, Gloria. 2004. Fathering Latina Sexualities: Mexican Men and Virginity of Their Daughters. Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol 66: 1118-1130. 470 Gutiérrez, Ramon. A History of Latina/o Sexualities. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 484 Moraga, Cherrie. 1981. “La Guera” in This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color eds by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Watertown, MA: Persephone. 490 Ochoa, Maria. Latina/o Transpopulations. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.

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504 Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador. Religion/Spirituality, US Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship. In Ascencio, Marysol (Ed.). 2010. Latina/o Sexualities:Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.

Suggested Readings: Anzaldua, Gloria. 2012. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Fourth Edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books Ramirez, Rafael L. 1999 (1993). What it Means to be a Man: Reflections of Puerto Rican Masculinity. English Translation. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Week 8 – Oct. 29 Class Cancelled

Week 9 – Nov. 5 Blacks

Read: Collins, Patricia Hill. (2004). Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism. New York: Routledge. (BOOK)

520 Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review , Vol. 43, No. 6 (Jul., 1991): 1241- 1299

582 McBride, Dwight A. “Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality and the Problem of Authority” Callaloo , Vol. 21, No. 2, Emerging Male Writers: A Special Issue, Part II (Spring, 1998): 363-379.

600 McGruder, Kevin. Pathologizing Black Sexuality: The U.S. Experience. In Battle, Juan & Sandra Barnes (Eds.). 2010. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.

Suggested Readings: Collins, Patricia Hill. Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2000.

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Week 10 – Nov. 12

N. Americans & Asians (South, East, & Southeast)

Read: 618 Gilley, Brian J. 2010. Native Sexual Inequalities: American Indian Cultural Conservative Homophobia and the Problem of Tradition. Sexualities 13(1):47-68. 650 Jackson, Peter A. 2000. “An explosion of Thai Identities.” Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies edited by Seidman, Fischer & Meeks. Routledge Press. 667 Kong, Travis. Sexualizing Asian Male Bodies. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 672 Lal, Vinay. 2012. Not This, Not That: The Hijras of India and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality. Social Text 61:119-140. 696 Mahdavi, Pardis. Iran‟s Sexual Revolution. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 703 Ritchie, Jason. 2010. How do you say „Come Out‟ in Arabic? GLQ 16(4):557. 722 Seidman, Steven. A Post-Identity Culture of Sexual Resistance: The Case of Lebanese Nonheterosexuals. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 726 Toor, Saadia. How Not to Talk About Muslim Women: Patriarchy, Islam and the Sexual Regulation of Pakistani Women. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

Suggested: Roscoe, Will. 2000. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Week 11 – Nov. 19

Global Perspectives: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East

Read: 735 Allen, Jafari. Blackness, Sexuality, and Transnational Desire: Initial Notes toward a New Research Agenda. In Battle, Juan & Sandra Barnes (Eds.). 2010. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 749 Hanawa, Yukiko. 2006 “inciting sites of political interventions: queer n‟ asian” in Queer Cultures edited by Deborah Carlin and Jennifer DiGrazia. Pearson. 762 Haritaworn, Jin. 2012. “Women‟s Rights, gay rights and anti-Muslim racism in Europe: Introduction.” European Journal of Women’s Studies 19(1): 73-78. 769 Moussawi, Ghassan. Not “straight,” but still a “man:” Negotiating non-heterosexual masculinities in Beirut. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 776 Povinelli, Elizabeth and Chauncey, George. 1999. “Thinking Sexuality Transnationaly.” GLQ 5(4):439-449.

788 Raj, Senthorum. 2010. Displaced Subjectivities: The Queer Refugee Body in Law. Challenging Politics Conference. 802 Zanghellini, Aleardo. 2010. Queer Kinship Practices in Non-Western Contexts: French Polynesia‟s Gender-variant Parents and the Law of La Republique. Journal of Law and Society, 37(4): 651-677.

Suggested Readings:

Puar, Jasbir. 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Women‟s Studies). Duke University Press.

Tamale, Sylvia. 2011. African Sexualities: A Reader. Pambazuka Press.

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Week 12 – Nov. 26

Gender Variant Movement, Expressions, and Experiences

Read: 830 Diedrich, Lisa. 1994. Deconstructing Gender Dichotomies: conceptualizing the Native American Berdache. interSections. 840 Feinberg, Leslie. 2006 [1992]. “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come” in Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. Routledge. 858 Halberstam, Judith. 1998. “Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum” in Female Masculinity:Duke University Press. 896 Namaste, Viviane. Transsexual, Transgender, and Queer. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 904 Stone, Sandy. 2006 [1987]. “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” in Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. Routledge. 926 Stryker, Susan. 2006. Selected text from “(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies” in Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. Routledge. 943 Towle, Ewan and Morgan, Lynn Marie. 2002. “Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the „Third Gender‟ Concept.” GLQ, 8(4): 469-497.

Week 13 – Dec. 3 Queer Bodies Read: 972 Caldwell, K. 2010. “We Exist: Intersectional In/Visibility in Bisexuality and Disability.” Disabilities Studies Quarterly 30(3-4). 990 Conrad, Kathryn. 2009. “Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age.” Surveillance & Society 6(4):380-387. 998 Godfrey, Phoebe Christina. Law and the Regulation of the Obscene. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

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1006 Gough, B., Flanders, G. 2009. “Celebrating „Obese‟ Bodies: Gay „Bears‟ Talk about Weight, Body Image and Health.” International Journal of Men’s Health 8(3):235-253. 1026 McRuer, Robert. 2006. “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” in Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York University. 1032 Pitts, Victoria. 2000. Visibly Queer: Body Technologies and Sexual Politics. The Sociological Quarterly 41(3):443. 1054 Saguy, A.C., Ward, A. 2011. “Coming Out as Fat” Social Psych Quarterly 74(1):53-75.

Suggested Readings: Popenoe, Rebecca. 2003. Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People. New York: Routledge. McRuer, Robert. 2012. Sex and Disability. Durham: Duke University Press. Bell, Christopher. 2012. Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press

Week 14 – Dec. 10

Life Course Experiences Read: 1078 Burke, Mary and Kristine Olsen. Queering the Family. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 1085 Dickerson, Bette and Nicole Rousseau. Black Senior Women and Sexuality. In Battle, Juan & Sandra Barnes (Eds.). 2010. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 1105 Hunter, Marcus Anthony, Marissa Guerrero, and Cathy Cohen. Black Youth Sexuality: Established Paradigms and New Approaches. In Battle, Juan & Sandra Barnes (Eds.). 2010. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 1129 Pascoe, C.J. Guys Are Just Homophobic: Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 1137 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1991. How to Bring Your Kids up Gay. Social Text 29: 18- 27.

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1149 Taylor, Yvette. Lesbian and Gay Parents: Situated Subjects. In Seidman, Steven; Nancy Fisher and Chet Meeks (Eds.). 2011. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

Suggested Readings: Johnson, E. Patrick and Mae G. Henderson (Eds.). 2006. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press. Cohen, Cathy. 1999. Boundaries of Blackness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Week 15 – Dec. 17 Sex, Sex Work, and more …

Read: Delaney, Sam. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

1163 Fung, Richard. 1991. “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.”

1183 Haritaworn, J; Lin, C and Klesse, C. 2006. Poly/logue: A Critical Introduction to Polyamory. Sexualities 9(5): 515-529. http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/9/5/515.full.pdf+html 1199 Hearn, Jeff. 2008. Sexualities Future, Present, Past. Sexualities 11:37.

1211 McGuffey, C. Shawn. Blacks and Racial Appraisals: Gender, Race, and Intraracial Rape. In Battle, Juan & Sandra Barnes (Eds.). 2010. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.

1237 Scherrer, Kristin S. 2008. “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire.” Sexualities 11:621.