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Dec 11, 2024
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Goucher College 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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HIS 124 - Sex Work: A Global History (4 Cr.)
This course examines the global history of sex work from nineteenth-century attempts to regulate and abolish prostitution, to the emergence of sex worker activism in the present. We will use the history of sex work as a lens to consider how notions of desire, morality, gender and sexuality are subject to historical change. Topics include: criminalization and legalization, sexual labor under slavery, colonialism and in times of war and occupation, same-sex eroticism, and globalization and sex tourism. First offered 2016. Schields.
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