GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Sex and Enchantment

4 credits (Fall)

Following Foucault, scholars have overwhelmingly aligned modern sexuality with secularization. But the association of sexuality with the magical, paranormal, and otherworldly remains prominent across a range of supposedly “modern” locations. This class revisits sexuality’s supposed secularization narrative, surveying a range of secularism’s sexual “others,” ranging from 19th Century Spiritualism to contemporary feminist witchcraft. We’ll focus on enchantment in U.S. sexual politics, but emphasis will also be placed on postcolonial and indigenous studies.

Prerequisite: GWS 111 and GWS 249.
Instructor: Lewis

Print this Page