Spring 2013 HIST 406. Syllabus Part 2 of 2
4.1 Topics & Course Calendar
Nobiletti
All Dates below are the days the reading or assignment is due (unless otherwise announced.)
The instructor reserves the right to modify the reading assignments and schedule as conditions
warrant.
Week
Topics
Readings, Class Activities,
and Assignments Due
Thursday 1/17
Introductions
Intro Syllabus Part 1 & 2
1st Methodology for Analyzing History of Sexuality:
“Big History” Sexuality:
A) FILM: Evolution: Why Sex? (Media Center: VTC 1715
tape 5 or DVD 4814)
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DISCUSS: Evolution: Why Sex?
B) Periodizing Human History:
5 Techno/Economic Periods
IN CLASS PREVIEW: 2nd Methodology Analyzing
History of Sexuality: Jeffrey Weeks’ 5 Areas Crucial in
Social Organization of Sexuality.
Thursday 1/24
2nd Methodology for Analyzing History of Sexuality:
Jeffrey Weeks: 5 Areas Crucial in Social Organization
of Sexuality
Thursday 1/24
Read: Syllabus carefully ; sign
contract page and bring in;
Peiss: Ch 1: Jeffrey Weeks: pp
1-9
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2
Purchase All Required
Materials
Terminology
Thursday 1/31
Discuss Micro Assignment #1 Overpopulation, Melinda
Gates & Birth Control
Lect/PPT: Classical Athens (480-400) BC:
Women: Wife, Prostitute, or Concubine?
Sex and Patriarchy
(What is Coontz’s argument? From 70-77)
Thursday 1/31
Micro Assignment #1 due.
Will have been posted or
sent previous weekend
(OPTIONAL) To View: On
Reserve in Library: Keuls
Visuals in Chapters 4 & 6 on
Women in Classical Athens
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Thursday 2/7
Discuss + “Afghan Girls Forced . . .”
Women of Sparta: A very different situation.
Thursday 2/7
Read: “Afghan Girls Forced to
Sell Sex . . .” in CLASS
READING PACKET
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Optional: Examples of Extra Credit Readings:
In readings in Class Packet:
1) “Female Genital Mutilation” by former student
Gina Melani in CLASS READING PACKET
2) Paper by former HIST 406 student on Prostitution
in The Netherlands.
. [Do questions for either or each similarly to Outside
Videos or Extra Credit video write-ups (see Syl Part 1
Section 3.1.1, p. 10.) Submit to EC in BBd’s Turnitin
anytime up to wk 14] Each worth .3 final grade
points
Thursday 2/14
Classical Athens — Pederasty
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Historical Background: Christianity and Sex
Discuss Micro Assignment #2 India: Rape,
Gender selection & attitudes on homosexuality
NATIVE AMERICA:
Native American-Euro Contact & Sexual Encounters
Be sure to make distinctions amongst Indian Nations;
do not fall into the historical fallacy that “All Indians
were the same” and mix them together.
4 Corners Region in Southwest U.S. today:
The Pueblo: Sexual Formations & Contact in the
Late Archaic Period (late 1400s C.E.)
Thursday 2/21 QUIZ 1
Thursday 2/14
Micro Assignment # 2 Due
Thursday 2/21
Quiz 1: covers week 1 – 5
readings & class.
(Pueblo continued from last Thursday) and
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Constructing “The Other”
California Native People: 1770s
(specifically: San Diego/Orange County Region)
Due Outside Video Question
set, any time by Friday (See
Syl Part 1 Sect 3.1 p.10)
Read: (Important)
Peiss Ch 2: Essay by
Castaneda: “Sexual Cultures &
Encounters in the New World”
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NATIVE AMERICA - Northeast: “Love and Marriage
among the Hurons” (sic)
Read: Peiss pp. 27-31
IN CLASS PREVIEW: D’Emilio & Freedman’s
Categories for Analyzing Sex in History
(3rd Methodology for Analyzing History of Sexuality)
Thursday 2/28
Intro: Contrasting New England & Virginia:
NORTH AMERICAN English Colonial Sexuality.
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17th Cent Virginia (The Chesapeake)
Thomas/Thomasine: Transvestism & Intersex
Discuss “Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn’t
Clear” [& Zuni Lhamana paper?]
DISCUSS: Term Paper
3rd Methodology for Analyzing History of Sexuality:
D’Emilio & Freedman’s
Sex/Gender Periodizations in United States
Reminder for Prof: send 2
transgender articles.
Thursday 2/28
Read: Peiss Chapter 3: (Brown
essay only) Regulating Sexuality in
the Anglo-Amer. Colonies
Read: Transgender articles:
“Supporting Boys or Girls When
the Line Isn’t Clear” NYT
“Pride, Prejudice And Pancake
Makeup” (Articles will be sent
to you )
Read: Former 406 Student
Paper in Class Packet :
“The Zuni Lhamana: Beyond a
Dualistic Framework of Gender”
by Jennifer Gosa
Read: D’Emilio & Freedman on BLACKBOARD/Course
Documents (IMPORTANT)
Categories for Analyzing Sex
in History pp.: xv, (From
paragraph starting “In
organizing”) to p. xix
[Professor send: Intersex
article for next week]
Thursday 3/7
Discuss Intersex Article: “What if. . .”
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Lecture: A Moral Panic: Bestiality in 17th Century New
England
Micro Assignment #3: Self Study PPT
Discuss: Levine Reading & Self Study PPT
Film: 20th Century with Mike Wallace: Child Sex
Scandal: Modern Day Witch Hunts?
Discuss: Film
Thursday 3/7
Read: Intersex article: “What if
It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort
of) a Girl?” from NYT (Will be
sent to you electronically).
Micro Assignmnet # 3 (see
posted directions) Read &
Self Study PPT: Levine: (pp.
45- 67) Forward + Intro + Ch 3
“Children Who Molest” Be sure
to read!
Read: Levine: Ch 4: pp.68-89
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Crimes of Passion
Thursday 3/14
Thursday 3/14
Lect? Coontz on Marriage: (condensed) Ch. 8 (pp.123142) W. Europe at Dawn of Modern Age
Lect: Coontz: Intro, Ch 1,9 “The Radical Idea of Marrying
for Love.” The Enlightenment Triggers New Concepts of
Marriage
Due: Outside video question
set #2, any time by Friday
Lect: (Condensed): Early Republic: late 1700s-early
1800s. Early U.S. Sexuality
The New Middle Class & the New Working Class:
America’s “Early Victorian Sexual/Gender System”
emerges
Sex and Utopian Communities: Inc. Mormonism and
Polygamy
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Thursday 3/21 QUIZ 2
(The South’s (and the United States’) Racialized
Sexual Order
Sex/gender systems of Slaves, Freemen, Yeomen and
Plantation owners
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(Lect Continued)
Thursday 3/28
Civil War (1861-1865) to 1873
(A Sexual Loosening, or a Failed Sexual Revolution?)
Challenges to the Late Victorian Sex/Gender System:
(start Lecture- Condensed)
Sexual Politics: Comstock’s Censorship vs. a Free
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Read: Peiss Ch. 4: Self
Control & Sex Reform in the
Early 19th Cent. Documents 1 &
4 only;
Read Essays: Stansell
(Working Class Women) &
Cott (Passionlessness)
Thursday 3/21 QUIZ 2
From Last Quiz to reading
for Today
Read: Peiss Chapter 5:
Documents 3 & 5. Sexuality,
Race & Violence in Slavery &
Freedom
Read: Peiss Ch 5: Stevenson
essay
Thursday 3/28
Term Paper Due
OPTIONAL Read: Peiss
Chapter 6: Love & Intimacy in
19th Cent America (Rosenberg
essay)
Read: Peiss Chapter 7: Free
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Love Culture of Resistance
(Same as Tuesday)
Start: Changing Sexual Constructions in the Last Third
of the 19th Century United States
SPRING BREAK NEXT WEEK
Thursday 4/11
Thursday 11/1
(continued) Changing Sexual Constructions in the Last
Third of the 19th Century United States
Micro Assignment #4
Current Events Article of
your choice on Sexuality
Sexual Orientation & Gender Orientation
Classifications
Heterosexual/Homosexual
Late 19th & Early 20th Century: 1890-1910: Sex and
the Working Class
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Love, Free Speech, and Sex
Censorship
(Documents 1 & 4, plus
Burton essay)
Using Sex for Economic, Social & Racial Control:
Lynching
FILM: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice [VTC 4327]
Discuss Micro Assignment #4 What’s new in the
history of sexuality? Current Events/Contemporary
History
Thursday 4/11
Read: Peiss Chapter 9:
Essay by Linda Gordon The
Politics of Reproduction
Birth Control & Abortion (“The
Contraception Revolution” and
“Rituals of Youth”)
Read: Levine Ch 6:
“Compulsory Motherhood: The
End of Abortion”
OPTIONAL Read: Peiss Chapter 8:
(Documents 2, 6 & 7 only;
Peiss’ essay) Prostitution &
Working Class Sexuality in the
Early 20th Century
Thursday 4/18
Thursday 4/18
Rise of the “Sexual Liberalism” Sex/Gender System 1920s Sexual Revolution, + the 1930s
Due Outside video question set
#3, by any time Friday
1930s-70s Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on African
Americans:
Read: Peiss Chapter 9: Essay
by M. Ladd-Taylor: “Eugenics,
Sterilization, & Social
Control”
Read: Peiss Chapter 13:
(Document 2 & Essay:
Brandt only) Sexually
Transmitted Diseases
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1940s & 1950s: WWII & Sex and the Early Cold War
The Transgender Revolution: 1950s-21st Century
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FILM: Start Watching DVD or at
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids -FRONTLINE: The Age of AIDS Part 1: Sections 1-4 (
up through: Scientific Breakthroughs)
Read: Peiss Chapter 11:
Open Secrets in Cold War
America
OPTIONAL Read: Peiss
Chapter 10: Heterosexual
Norms & Homosexual Identities
in Popular Culture Documents 1
& 5, & Katz essay
Thursday 4/25
Thursday 4/25
Rise of Identity Politics: Woman’s Liberation Mov’t
(‘60s & 70s)
(All Extra Credit due by next
week.)
1960s & 1970s: The Second 20th Century Sexual
Revolution: The Demise of Sexual Liberalism
FILM: Sex in the 20th Century: Part 3: Make Love,
Not War
OPTIONAL Read: Peiss
Chapter 13 (only Documents 3
& 6) Sexually Transmitted
Diseases
(Gay Liberation (1969 –1970s)
DUE: WATCH: FRONTLINE: The
Age of AIDS: Part 2: Sections
4 to 6)
Extra Credit Suggestion: Student Paper: “A Campaign for
Change: Jamaican Homophobia” See other EC papers too
in packet.
Thursday 5/2
In Class Preview of next Thurs. reading in Class
Reading Packet: “My Mother Liked to Fuck”.
Sexual Politics: 1977-> The Rise of the Christian
Right Wing: Backlash: The Rise, Weakening, &
Evolution of the Christian Right Wing
inc. 21st Century Transformations of Evangelical
Christianity and the Implications for Sexual Politics: A
New Generation
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Thursday 5/2
Read: Peiss Chapter 12:
Essay: by Allyn “Fomenting a
Sexual Revolution”;
Primary Sources: Omit only
Documents # 1 & 2.
OPTIONAL Read: Peiss Ch 14:
Optional Read Almaguer essay
[Construction of Homoerotics
among traditional Mexican
males]
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Sexual Politics: 1980s
The Bisexual Movement blossoms in the 80s - San
Diego’s Fritz Klein is key.
The AIDS Epidemic 1982 to the Present
Discuss reading: “On the Death of . . .”
Discuss Joan Nestle’s Article: “My Mother. . . “
Due: Outside video question
set #4 any time by Friday (see
Syllabus)
All Extra Credit Are Due by
Friday midnight
Read: Class Packet Joan
Nestle: “My Mother Liked To
Fuck”
Read: “On The Death of
Former President Ronald
Reagan” in Class Packet
Thursday 5/9
QUIZ 3
Sex Education as Sexual Politics
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Sexual Politics, 1990s Style: From Clarence Thomas
& Anita Hill to Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, & B.
Clinton -- & -- Republican Role
omitted in Fall 2011: FILM: Monica In Black and White
Read AND Self Study PPT:
Levine Ch 10: “Good Touch” (p.
178-198);
Thursday 5/9
Quiz 3: Tuesday from last quiz,
up to and including today’s
readings
Read: (IMPORTANT) + Self
Study PPT: Levine: Ch 5 “NoSex Education” (pp. 90-116) +
Afterward: (pp.227-239)
B: Age of Consent – Sexual Politics focuses on the Children
21st Century
Lawrence v. Texas: Activist Judges? Or 14th
Amendment Liberty Clause, & Equality Under the
Law?
Marriage Equality? Same Sex Marriage
Discussion: What Does the Future Hold? Pondering
the Future of Sexuality
Read: Class Packet:
[Will be further condensed by
Prof.]:
Lawrence & Garner v. Texas
&
Goodridge & Goodridge V.
Dept of Health (Massachusetts)
Excerpts Same Sex Marriage
Final Exam: or Take home?
Grades posted online: (11:00 p.m. deadline.)
Included here from Syl Part 1 again for your convenience in the Media Center – and
theirs:
3.1.2. List of Videos ( to pick from for Required Outside Videos)
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[If you see more that the
required four, you can put them
in Extra Credit folders.
You do not need to see the videos in any particular order.
You must see both of the following two videos:
1. Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes [Media Center DVD 4405]
2. Margaret Sanger [Media Center DVD 4193]
Try to see this early. If you leave it until the last three weeks, it will cause jams of people trying
to see it. Available at Media Center only. (Do not use any other version, e.g., not from PBS
American Experience series.)
And at least one of these two:
3. The History Channel: Sex in the 20th Century: Part 1—The Century Turns On [in
Media Center. Not on Netflix. Not for sale at HistoryChannel.com]
4. The History Channel: Sex in the 20th Century: Part 2—Passion’s Coming of Age [in Media
Center. Not on Netflix. Not for sale at HistoryChannel.com. This film and the last one relate to
material in week 12 and after. We will see Part 3 in class.]
If you still have one left to see, choose one of these:
5. Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World [Media Center DVD-2052] Also
available on Netflix, and can be watched instantly. Also reported by a student to be online at
http://www.logoonline.com/video/dangerous-living-coming-out-in
-the-developing-world/1591340/playlist.jhtml.
6. Nova: Sex Unknown [Media Center VTC-1780] (to be closed captioned soon.)
7. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin [Online at http://www.logotv.com
/video/brother-outsider-the-life-of-bayard-rustin/1600849/playlist.jhtml. Media
Center DVD-1967, (2003) 83 min. About the gay African American who taught Martin Luther
King Jr. and Ghandi nonviolence, and organized the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.]
8. Nova: 18 Ways to Have a Baby [Media Center VTC-1833] (to be closed captioned soon.)
9. Kinsey [2004 w/ Liam Neeson and not American Experience version. Available in the
Media Center and on Netflix.]
The following would be when to read the OPTIONAL related readings, IF you should
decide to do so. They are not necessary.
Week 7
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapters 2 & 3
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Tuesday Week 8
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 4
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 6
Tuesday Week 9
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 5
Thursday Week 9
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 7
Week 11
D & F: Chapter 10 & D & F: Chapter 11: start p. 242 to end of chapter
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 9
Week 12
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 12
Week 14
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 13
Week 15
D’Emilio & Freedman: Chapter 14, 15, and “Afterward”
[Note for Prof only: Could do same with Coontz]
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