Schedule

Week 1 (Aug. 24, 26, 28)

Introduction and Overview

Topics
Required reading

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

Tiefer, Leonore. “The Kiss.” Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004. 77-84.

Week 2 (Aug. 31, Sept. 2, 4)

Approaches to Human Sexuality

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 1

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

Week 3 (Sept. 9, 11)

Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

No class Sept. 7, Labor Day

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 2 (p. 36-50)

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

Week 4 (Sept. 14, 16, 18)

Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

Reaction paper 1 due Sept. 18

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 2 (p. 50-71)

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

Week 5 (Sept. 21, 23, 25)

Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 10

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

Week 6 (Sept. 28, 30, Oct. 2)

Sexual Orientation

Exam 1, Oct. 2

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 11

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

Week 7 (Oct. 5, 7, 9)

Sexuality over the Life Course

Reaction paper 2 due Oct. 9

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapters 12

Delamater, John, and Amelia Karraker. “Sexual Functioning in Older Adults.” Current Psychiatry Reports 11.1 (2009): 6-11.

Week 8 (Oct. 12, 14)

Sexual Arousal, Problems, and Solutions

No class Oct. 16, Homecoming

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapters 3, 7

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

Week 9 (Oct. 19, 21, 23)

Experiencing Sexual Pleasure

First submission of research paper due on Oct. 19

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapters 6, 14

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 10 (Oct. 26, 28, 30)

Love, Intimacy, and Marriage

Peer review due in section

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 4

Gourevitch, Philip. “A Husband for Dil.” The New Yorker 75.1 (1999): 78-88.

Week 11 (Nov. 2, 4, 6)

Pregnancy and Birth

Exam 2, Nov. 6

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 9

Shorto, Russell. “No Babies?” New York Times Magazine 2008, sec MM: 34.

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 12 (Nov. 9, 13)

Contraception and Culture

No class Nov. 11, Veterans Day

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 5

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

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

Week 13 (Nov. 16, 18, 20)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Final, revised research paper due Nov. 20

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 8

Week 14 (Nov. 24, 26)

HIV/AIDS and Global Health

No class Nov. 25 and Nov. 27, 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 (Nov. 30, Dec. 2, 4)

Power, Coercion, and Sexual Violence

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 13

Ryan, Kathryn, and Jeanne Kanjorski. “The Enjoyment of Sexist Humor, Rape Attitudes, and Relationship Aggression in College Students.” Sex Roles 38.9/10 (1998): 743-56.

Week 16 (Dec. 7, 9)

Selling Sex

No class Dec. 11

Topics
Required reading

Hock, Chapter 15

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 17