HISTORY 776 / History of Sexualities in the Western World, 1750 to the present

3 unit(s)

This course is intended as a historiographical introduction to the most recent advances in the study of the history of sexualities in the Western world during the modern era. Through weekly seminars, its intention is to explore the interplay between the definition and regulation of sexualities by religious bodies, governments, and medical and scientific experts, and the changing ways in which ordinary men and women have expressed sexual desire, and have articulated their sexual subjectivities.