Simmons University

HIST239 - 01 - History of Sexuality and the Family

Credits

4.0

Term

Sep 2 - Dec 13

Open Seats

15 of 25

Schedule

Tue, Thu 3:30 – 4:50pm

Course Type

Lecture

Location

In Person

Section

01

Faculty

Prerequisites

Description

Traces the transformation of a pre-modern family centered system equating sexuality with reproduction into the 20th-century concept of sexuality as a form of identity and self expression. Explores the connections between changes in sexuality and historically specific events and trends. Considers the roles gender, race, and class have played in changing definitions of what constitutes a "family."