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WGST 4153
Virginity: Power, Politics, and Pleasure
Examines female virginity from an interdisciplinary perspective - all challenging and re-theorizing our modern conceptions of virginity. Course texts and discussion explore the history, myths, biology, politics, and personal definitions of female virginity and first-time sex across identities of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, and more. A key question considered by the course: why is the initiation into female heterosexuality defined as a loss and what has been the consequence?
Units: 3.0