Sexuality: Midterm Outline

University:
University of Wyoming
Course:
HIST 4990 | History of Sexuality
Academic year:

2023
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Pages:

3
Author:

Allison B.

In a 5-7-page paper, please respond to one of the following essay prompts. Your response should be well-organized, thesis-driven, and draw on specific pieces of evidence from various assigned readings and class discussions. Your essay must engage with at least 5 authors we have discussed so far this semester. What roles did capitalism and the growth of the economy play in this early history of sexuality? In this essay, I argue capitalism and economic ambitions impacts the early history of sexuality in three ways. First, how inhereatenhce and patriarchal passing down impacted the sexuality race of slaves and blacks in XXXXX. Secondly, how capitalism necessesitated family units to have a man in the family. And thirdly, how shifts outside of these norms in turn bring down the wrath of the captialistic establishment. d’emilio First define capiatlaism and how it relates to sexuality -1 - Spear, Morgan, Brown 2 - Manion, 3 - Tone, Piley SOURCES John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds., Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York, 1983), 100– 113. Jennifer Spear, “Colonial Intimacies: Legislating Sex in French Louisiana,” William and Mary Quarterly, 60 no. 1 (January 2003): 75-98. Jennifer L. Morgan, “‘The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers’: Gender and Evolving Practices of Slave Ownership in the English American Colonies,” in Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004): 69-106. Kathleen M. Brown, “From ‘Foul Crimes’ to ‘Spurious Issue’: Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race,” in Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996): 187-211. Jan Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Jessica Pliley, “Vice Queens and White Slaves: The FBI’s Crackdown on Elite Brothel Madams in 1930s New York City,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 25 no. 1 (January 2016): 137-167 Andrea Tone, “Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s,” Journal of Social History 29 no. 3 (Spring 1996): 485-506.