Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Amanda L Swarr
GWSS 545
Seattle Campus

Transnational Sexualities

Focuses on transnational processes such as colonialism and globalization, imperialism, and consumerism. Analyzes attempts to both codify and undermine universal queer subjects. Participants theorize sexual practices, discourses, and histories through explorations of tourism, HIV/AIDS, immigration, and other interstices of transnational intimacies.

Class description

This graduate seminar will explore themes in the emerging field of postcolonial queer and sexuality studies. Focusing on transnational processes such as colonialism and globalization, imperialism and consumerism, students will analyze attempts to both codify and undermine universal queer and gendered subjects. Participants in this class will theorize sexual practices, discourses, and histories through explorations of tourism, HIV/AIDS, immigration, terrorism, indigeneity, and many other instances of transnational intimacies.

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