Gender and Sexuality Part 3: Sexuality

Questions of gender identity and sexual self-expression have recently come to the forefront of discourse in popular culture. But gender and sexuality have always been crucial to culture–and vice versa. Both have biological components, but cultures imbricate them into larger systems of meaning. So, while our genders or sexualities can feel natural, even instinctual, they have been significantly shaped by the cultures in which we have been raised–and have implications far beyond the bathroom or the bedroom.

Part One: Gender will address cultural variations in gender performance, gendered labor, gender fluidity and gender beyond the binary.

Part Two: Gender Fluidity will address the way different cultures allow for shifts in gender identity and are changing their own constructions of gender.

Part Three: Sexuality will explore sexual liberation, gendered sexual violence, and sexual subcultures.

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Resources:

Sexuality by Richard G. Parker, Laura R. Murray

The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture By Timothy L. L. Taylor

Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Anthropology by LibreText libraries

The Body Weaponized: War, sexual violence and the uncanny by Paul Kirby

Films:

Sex and Sexuality by Crash Course Sociology #31 by CrashCourse

The Evolution of Human Mating: David Puts at TedxPSU by Tedx Talks