GSS 212: Gender, War and Peace. Online and asynchronous, Fall 2024 with Dr. Elizabeth Bachner.
Fulfills CAS students' Social Perspectives and Global Perspectives requirements.
GSS 212: Gender, War and Peace. Online and asynchronous, Fall 2024 with Dr. Elizabeth Bachner.
Through readings in literature, history, political science, philosophy, and psychology, this course will explore critically the myths linking feminine gender with pacifism and masculine gender with aggression. Various perspectives on peace and war, the history of peace movements, and women’s as well as men’s participation in war will be considered
ENG 375: Literature and Sexuality
Section D1, MWF 11:30-12:30
This course examines the role of sexuality in recent fiction, memoir, poetry, and plays. We’ll look at a diverse range of texts written by and about LGBTQ people, looking at the way sexuality intersects with gender, race, class, religion, nationality, and ethnicity. This course counts toward the English major/minor and the Gender and Sexuality Studies minor and certificate.
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Fall 2024 HIS 319 Gender and Sexuality in American History
Dr. Erica Ryan T/Th 9:45-11:15am
Course description: What makes a man, exactly, and what makes a woman? What
kinds of sex are normal, and what kinds are abnormal? Who decides? The answers to
these questions are not fixed. Throughout American history, popular understandings
of gender and sexual norms evolved in close relationship with the political, economic,
racial, and social dictates of the time. This course will trace the evolution of ideas on
sex and gender from the 18th cent. to the present using historical sources, including
fiction and film. Particular attention will be given to analyzing dominant models of
proper behavior and the complex relationships of power enmeshed within them. A
sample of topics include gender and the frontier, the invention of heterosexuality and
homosexuality, debating reproductive rights, the Harlem Renaissance, sexual
revolutions, the politics of family life, and the AIDS epidemic. Note: the course is
cross listed with GSS 319 and counts for the GSS minor/certificate.
Pride Book Display
National Coming Out Day, 2019
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual (Article @ The Conversation)
A marcher waves a flag during the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 8, 2019. Nicole S. Glass/Shutterstock.com
Selected Reading List and Book Display (2019) . Links to 2022 Online Display!
"Progress A PRIDE Flag Reboot." A reboot of the LGBTQ Pride flag with an emphasis on inclusion and progression. By Daniel Quasar. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielquasar/progress-a-pride-flag-reboot
“Progress” Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The pride flag flies in front of Moore Library on National Coming Out Day, October 11, 2018.
Image adapted from:http://www.flickr.com/photos/elmada/4714782414/ (Creative Commons License) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBT_movement)
London Eye Rainbow by Bert van Ingan (Creative Commons License)
Empire State Building and Madison Square Garden in Rainbow Colors for Gay Pride 2015 by Anthony Quintano (Creative Commons)
Queer: a Graphic History by 
Black womyn (DVD): conversations with lesbians of African descent
Understanding and Teaching U. S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by 
You're in the Wrong Bathroom! And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People by
Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie ("the pregnant man") and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding-yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical, social, psychological, and political aspects of being trans in the United States today, "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"- And 20 Other Myths About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about transgender and gender-nonconforming people. Authors Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, a psychiatrist, and Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R, a psychotherapist, address a range of fallacies- Trans People Are "Trapped in the Wrong Body" You're Not Really Trans If You Haven't Had "the Surgery" Trans People Are a Danger to Others, Especially Children Trans People Are Mentally Ill and Therapy Can Change Them Trans People and Feminists Don't Get Along
The Glass Closet by 
The Invisibles by 
An Archive of Hope : Harvey Milk's speeches and writings by 
Outlaw marriages : the hidden histories of fifteen extraordinary same-sex couples by 
What's Wrong with Homosexuality? by 
A Positive View of LGBTQ
When Brooklyn Was Queer by
The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** "A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." --Kirkus Reviews, starred "[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful." --The New York Times Book Review Hugh Ryan'sWhen Brooklyn Was Queeris a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history--a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn's queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic.
