AN 222 (312) Kinship and Society                                                                9:00-12:00 F
Dr. Konstantatos

A survey of the broad range of possibilities in kinship forms in various parts of the world and in subcultures of American society.  

EN 348 Southern Women Writers                                                           6:00-9:00 T
Dr. Peter Sharpe

This course explores the work of important American writers from the South, including Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Kaye Gibbons, Doris Betts, Ellen Gilchrist, Carson McCullers, Elizabeth Spencer, Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker.  Their regional perspectives—on love and loyalty, independence and work, race and family—underpin a unique sense of place and a rootedness in tradition that permeates their work.

SO 213 Sexualities and the Social (D) (H)                                                   6:20-9:20 M
Dr. Jean Halley                         

Ranging from pre-colonial Nigerian to contemporary United States culture, “Sexualities and the Social” will examine the diverse ways human beings think about and experience sexuality, sex and gender roles, intimacy and love, marriage and other forms of intimate human relationship, parenting, and domestic and sexual labor. The course will explore how both the experience and ideological meanings of human sexuality have changed in different social and historical contexts, and how sexuality permeates the social division of labor. It will investigate how the ways humans think about and organize sexuality are related to the material realities of the political economy and people’s everyday lives and work. Special attention is given to differences and similarities in the experience of sexual relationships across lines of gender, sex, class, race, and sexual orientation. “Sexualities and the Social” makes use of sociological, anthropological and literary sources on sexuality, sex and gender roles including for example the following: Igbo society before and during British colonization; an early nineteenth-century British novelist’s exposé on sex and love; an American sex researcher’s exploration of human sexuality in the 1940s; second-wave feminist and conservative thinking on marriage and divorce; a late twentieth-century gay man’s autobiographical story about his partner’s death; and contemporary sociological research on domestic and sexual labor.