SOCI 338 - Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD, WADV

Prostitution is a site of easy truths and inevitable conflict because of cultural ambiguities about sexuality, gender, ethnicity and citizenship. We probe these intersecting meanings by reviewing the wide range of empirical meanings attributed to prostitution and the ways modern forces have transformed them, especially the state. Taking cues from Michel Foucault, we analyze why recent legal solutions cannot fulfill expectations and discuss how the social control of prostitution might actually cause it.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. Mattson

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Related intermediate course in these departments. Restrictions: Closed to first year students.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; Law and Society