his humanities-based literature, theory and film course explores the importance of regional orientation to sexual orientation in the U.S.: not just the “what you do” of sexuality but also the “where you do it.” This course grates against the assumption that the city is where “anything goes,” while rural spaces are merely places of intense sexual repression. Students interrogate themes such as sex work, migration, homonationalism, metronormativity, trans lives and histories, how the gender binary developed as a tool of colonial oppression, what a disabled sexual culture might look like, and rural and suburban responses to the metropole. In turn, we will also have opportunities to explore gender and sexuality in Madison.
Gen&WS 340: Topics in LGBTQ+ Sexuality: Queer Locations: Space, Place and Desire
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