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WGST 322 helps students understand and analyze issues through the new field of sexual studies. This course presents the historical and theoretical underpinnings of Western colonial sexualities in Canada and the United States. 

Overview

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Unit 1: The Power and Meanings of Sex and Sexualities

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Wilson, A. (2008). N’tacimowin inna nah’: Our coming in stories. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3–4), 193–199.
Finley, C. (2011). Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native bull-dyke): Bringing “sexy back” and out of Native studies’ closet. In Q-L Driskill, C. Finley, B. J. Gilley, & S. L. Morgensen (Eds.), Queer Indigenous studies: Critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature, (pp. 31­–42). University of Arizona.
Pascoe, C. J. (2005). “Dude, you’re a fag”: Adolescent masculinity and the fag discourse. Sexualities, 8(3), 329–346. 
CBC Digital Archives. (1959, October 16). Homosexuality: A psychiatric “problem” in 1959 [Video file]. In Consensus. 
Wilson, N. (Producer). (2018, July 6). Episode 94: The chase [Audio podcast]. In Criminal. 

Unit 2: Sex Wars Redux: Theories of Sexuality

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Fahs, B. (2010). Daddy’s little girls: On the perils of chastity clubs, purity balls, and ritualized abstinence. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 31(3), 116–142. 
Rogers, R., & Liebler, C. (2017). Jubblies, mammaries and boobs: Discourses of breast physics in video games. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 9(3), 257–278. 
Cohen, C. (1997). Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: The radical potential of queer politics? GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 3(4), 437–465. 
Readings for Assignment 2
Davies, J. M. (2015). The criminalization of sexual commerce in Canada: Context and concepts for critical analysis. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 24(2), 78–91.
Laidlaw, L. (2018). Challenging dominant portrayals of the trans sex worker: On gender, violence, and protection. Manitoba Law Journal, 41(3), 351–372.
Chude-Sokei, L., Cruz, A., Musser, A. J., Nash, J. C., Stallings, L. H., & Wachter-Grene, K. (2016). Race, pornography, and desire: A TBS roundtable. Black Scholar, 46(4), 49–64.
Lipton, S. (2012). Trouble ahead: Pleasure, possibility and the future of queer porn. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 10(2/3), 197–207.

Unit 3: Governing Sex and Sexuality, and the LGBTQ2S Social Movement

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Readings for Assignment 3
Dazed. (2016, October 4). Mykki Blanco recites “I want a dyke for president”—a film by Adinah Dancyger [Video file].
Thompson, D. (2009). Racial ideas and gendered intimacies: The regulation of interracial relationships in North America. Social & Legal Studies, 18(3), 353–371. 
Campbell, T. K. (2018, December 27). Making love under Indian Acts. briarpatch. 
Moss, E. L., Stam, H. J., & Kattevilder, D. (2013). From suffrage to sterilization: Eugenics and the women’s movement in 20th century Alberta. Canadian Psychology, 54(2), 105–114. 
Moran, P. (Writer). (2018, November 13). Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer. In I. Sturino & W. Smith (Producers), The current. CBC Radio.
Queering the Map. (n.d.)
Hooper, T., Kinsman, G., & Pearlston, K. (2019, February 14). Anti-69 FAQ. Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform. 
Xtra. (2011, February 7). Track two—enough is enough [Video file].
Nash, C. J., & Bain, A. L. (2007). “Reclaiming raunch”? Spatializing queer identities at Toronto women’s bathhouse events. Social & Cultural Geography, 8(1), 47–62. 
Ramirez, J. L., Gonzalez, K. A., & Galupo, M. P. (2018). “Invisible during my own crisis”: Responses of LGBT people of color to the Orlando shooting. Journal of Homosexuality, 65(5), 579–599. 
We Demand. (1971). We demand manifesto. The Body Politic, 1(1), 4–7. 
Trudeau, J. (2017, November 28). Remarks by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to apologize to LGBTQ2 Canadians. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. 
Kinsman, G. (2017, December 14). How Canada’s historic apology to LGBT people falls short. Xtra News.
Smith, M. (2008). Identity and opportunity: The lesbian and gay rights movement. In M. Smith (Ed.), Group politics and social movements in Canada (pp. 182–202). University of Toronto Press. 
Lenon, S. (2011). “Why is our love an issue?”: Same-sex marriage and the racial politics of the ordinary. Social Identities, 17(3), 351–372. 
Duggan, L. (2012). Beyond marriage: Democracy, equality, and kinship for a new century. A New Queer Agenda, 10(1–2).
Gaucher, M., & DeGagne, A. (2016). Guilty until proven prosecuted: The Canadian state’s assessment of sexual minority refugee claimants and the invisibility of the non-western sexual non-citizen. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 23(3), 459–481.