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Jan 02, 2025
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Goucher College 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 277 - Sex Work: Ethical and Historical Perspectives (3 Cr.) (WS 277 )
Sex work is one of the most controversial areas of feminist inquiry. While so much of the U.S. women’s movement has fought to eliminate the (legal and illegal) trafficking in women’s bodies, an equally amount of feminist work goes toward improving the lives and social and legal status of sex workers. This course studies the history of sex work to examine how race, class and gender provide a basis for ethical debates on prostitution and pornography. Questions of who decides what is moral and not, what is healthy or sick, and what is considered obscene in modern society—and how these questions have been answered through the years. Prerequisites: Any one of the following: PHL 115 , PHL 276 , or PHL 237 ; any one of the following women’s studies courses: WS 100 , 120, WS 225 , or WS 230 ; or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2009-10 and alternate years. Grebowicz.
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