Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (341-0-20)
Topic
Asian American Sexualities
Instructors
Raymond Andrew San Diego
Crowe 1-125
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-331: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
Topic: Asian American Sexualities.
"Sexuality"—as potential, productive, perverse, political, and pleasurable— is taken up in this course as a profoundly dynamic node of power and knowledge. This interdisciplinary course interrogates how "Asian American sexualities" are taken up as a problematic and/or analytic in history, performance, public health, film, sociology, anthropology, literature, and art to discuss diaspora and migration, activism and HIV/AIDS, intimacy and pornography, gender and labor. This course asks, "What are the possibilities and potentialities of Asian American sexualities? How do Asian American sexualities inform our thinking about how we understand, relate to, and imagine the world and what we want it to be?"
Registration Requirements
Attendance at first class is mandatory. Must be upper-division or have permission of instructor.
Class Materials (Required)
Asa Akira. Insatiable: Porn- A Love Story (Grove Press, 2015). ISBN-13 : 978-0802123497
Class Notes
Please be aware some texts and media might be too explicitly violent, graphic, or sexual for some students.
This course requires attendance events outside of the scheduled class time
Class Attributes
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area
Juniors/Seniors Only