New Course Approved: Sexual Identities in American Culture
July 14, 2011
American Studies
Aaron Lecklider’s new course will be taught for the first time Spring 2012. Sexual Identities in American
Culture (AMST 325L/WOST 325L) studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United
States with a particular emphasis upon LGBT studies by analyzing cultural texts such as novels, songs,
films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United
States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and
men in federal employment during the cold war, and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s.
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