Schedule

Week 1 (Aug. 25, 27, 29)

Introduction and overview

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 1

Haviland, W., H. E. L. Prins et al. Anthropology: The Human Challenge. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2005.

Week 2 (Sept. 3, 5)

Sex and Human Evolution

No class Sept. 1, Labor Day

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 2

de WaalFrans B. M. “Bonobo Sex and Society,” Scientific American 272.3 (1995): 82-88.

Diamond, Jared. Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Basic Books, 1997.

Week 3 (Sept. 8, 10, 12)

Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 3

Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Second ed., Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.

Week 4 (Sept. 15, 17, 19)

Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

Reaction paper 1 due Sept. 19

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 4

Lock, Margaret. “Menopause: Lessons From Anthropology,” Psychosomatic Medicine 60.4 (1998): 410-19.

Week 5 (Sept. 22, 24, 26)

Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 5

Darby, Robert. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Why Can’t We Stop Circumcising Boys?,” Contexts 4.2 (2005): 34-39.

Week 6 (Sept. 29, Oct. 1, 3)

Sexual Expression

Exam 1, Oct. 3

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 10

Christina, Greta. “Are We Having Sex Now Or What?” The Erotic Impulse. Ed. David Steinberg. New York: Jeffrey P. Tarcher/Penguin, 1992. 24-29.

Week 7 (Oct. 6, 8, 10)

Varieties and Challenges of Sexual Expression

Reaction paper 2 due Oct. 10

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapters 14, 16

Tiefer, Leonore. “Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance,” PLoS Medicine 3.4 (2006): e178.

Week 8 (Oct. 13, 15, 17)

Love and Marriage

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapters 7, 9

Week 9 (Oct. 20, 22, 24)

Sexual Orientation

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 11

Sanders, “A Down Low Dirty Shame: The New Assault on Black Male Sexuality,” Bitch 28.Spring (2005): 33-35, 91.

Week 10 (Oct. 27, 29, 31)

Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth

First submission of research paper due in section

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 12

David, Richard J., and James W. Collins, Jr. “Bad Outcomes in Black Babies: Race Or Racism?,” Ethnicity and Disease 1.3 (1991): 236-44.

Week 11 (Nov. 3, 5, 7)

Contraception and Abortion

Peer review due in discussion section

Exam 2, Nov. 7

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 13

Shorto, “Contra-Contraception.” New York Times Magazine May 7 2006, 48-55, 68, 83.

Week 12 (Nov. 10, 12, 14)

Childhood and Adolescent Sexuality

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 8

Rose, “Going Too Far? Sex, Sin and Social Policy,” Social Forces 84.2 (2005): 1207-32.

Week 13 (Nov. 17, 19, 21)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 15

Week 14 (Nov. 24, 26)

HIV/AIDS and Global Health

Final, revised research paper due Nov. 24

No class Nov. 28, Thanksgiving

Topics
Required reading

Parker, Richard. “The Global Hiv/Aids Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the Politics of International Health,” American Journal of Public Health 92.3 (2002): 343-47.

Week 15 (Dec. 1, 3, 5)

Power, Coercion, and Sexual Violence

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 17

Abramovitz, Melissa. “The Knockout Punch of Date Rape Drugs,” Current Health 2 27.7 (2001): 18-23.

Week 16 (Dec. 8, 10)

Selling Sex

No class Dec. 12

Topics
Required reading

Carroll, Chapter 18

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Final Exam, December 18