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Department for Gender and Sexuality Studies

FEATURED COURSE: WGS 2613, Compulsory Couplehood. Taught by Melanie Adley, Sr. Lecturer and Associate Director WGS. Click for more information.

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WGS 2613: Compulsory Couplehood

Taught by Melanie Adley, Sr. Lecturer and Associate Director WGS.

From the nineteenth century to the present. Legal and societal implications of marriage. Marginalization of the single person. Different gendered stereotypes of the uncoupled adult, including the bachelor and the spinster. Non-normative forms of kinship and relationships. Primarily United States with global perspectives. Scholarly and pop-cultural texts.

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