WGSS 4844 - Youth and Sexualities

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better.
Description
This class takes up the intersections of youth and sexuality. Readings, discussion, and analysis focus on the ways adults seek to govern the sexual subjectivities of young people and the ways young people respond to their surroundings as they create identities and social practices related to sexuality. Focuses of the course include practices of governing others and the self relating to sex education, the creation of “LGBT” and “queer” youth, social scientific “expertise,” and popular culture.