Princeton University’s Gender and Sexuality Studies will offer classes on “erotic dance,” “queer spaces,” pornography, and prostitution.
The classes are scheduled to take place during the upcoming Spring semester.
The New York Post reports:
The Ivy League institution will offer five total courses that contain the word “queer” in their course descriptions, according to a Campus Reform report published Tuesday, including “Love: Anthropological Explorations,” “Queer Spaces in the World,” “Power, Profit and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work,” “Disability and the Politics of Life,” and “The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation.”
The university’s course dedicated to sex work appears to focus on the stigmatization and controversies surrounding the topic as well as power dynamics and societal expectations.
The course description reads, “Why does sex work raise some of the most fascinating, controversial and often taboo questions of our time? The course explores the intricate lives and intimate narratives of sex workers from the perspective of sex workers themselves, as they engage in myriad varieties of global sex work: pornography, prostitution, erotic dance, escorting, street work, camming, commercial fetishism, and sex tourism.”
The “Queer Spaces” course will analyze “institutional and historical power dynamics.”
“How do we reconcile seeming absences and actual acts of erasure that stare back at us from the archive? How can feminist, gender, queer and trans* theory help us chart new avenues for writing critical architectural histories that are attentive to discourses of difference but also narratives of equity?”
The description continues, “Which methods, beyond conventional modes of architectural inquiry, can we employ to uncover histories of groups and institutions that have actively resisted dominant regimes of power and their corresponding systems of knowledge?”
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