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Autumn Quarter 2015
Apr 24, 2024 |
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| GWST 2215 - Selling Sex, Gender and the American Dream: 1950 - Present |
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This introductory course analyzes how commercial culture has evolved into the defining cornerstone of American life over the last sixty years. The first half of the quarter well will examine the key historical movements including the Cold War, the Civil Rights/Women's and Gay Liberation movements and investigate how women, ethnic minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community evolved into important "consumer citizens" in the United States. The second half of the quarter will examine these same social groups from a contemporary perspective, and the degree that globalization, "multiculturalism" and "going green" have emerged as dominant tropes in contemporary culture. By moving from past to present, students will gain an understanding of the complex connections between consumption and U.S. nation-building, as well as the consequences "shopping" and the accumulation of "stuff" has had in both the shaping and reconfiguring understandings of what it means to live the "American Dream." This course counts toward the Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture requirement.
4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Gender and Women's Studies Department Course Attributes: Arts and Humanities Foundation, Analytical Inquiry: Society, Gndr Women & Sexuality Studies Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: Colorado Women's College University College |
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