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Sex and the City<\/strong>
\nHist 291.00<\/strong>
\nSpring 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof. Andrew Ross
\nDepartment of History
\nKenyon College
\nSeitz House 3
\nE-mail: rossa@kenyon.edu
\nOffice Hours: Tu-Th 1-3, W 2-3 and by appointment<\/p>\n

Course Website<\/b>: http:\/\/www.andrewisraelross.com\/s13satc<\/a><\/p>\n

Course Description<\/b>: This course will examine the complicated relationship between sexuality and urban space by challenging the notion that our environment simply serves as the background for activities that take place within it. Instead, we will discuss how the modern city simultaneously shaped and was shaped by the development of modern sexual identities from the Enlightenment to the present day. The creation of sophisticated police forces, government bureaucracies, and consumer cultures in European and American cities between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries was deeply implicated with the emergence of gay and lesbian identities and subcultures, gendered ideologies of public and private, and the sexual sciences. Readings comprise primarily of secondary sources, supplemented by in-class primary source readings and visual material. Topics covered include prostitution, gay and lesbian sexualities, public and private space, sexual violence, and race and imperialism in cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, and New York in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u00a0 The course proceeds through four themes: (1) fundamental concepts in the study of sex and the city; (2) space and sex work; (3) gay and lesbian subcultures; and (4) power, space, and sex.<\/p>\n

Course Objectives:<\/b>
\nBy the end of the semester, students will be able to:<\/p>\n