Global Sex: The travel of desires, Identities and Politics in a Globalizing world
-Read all questions carefully before you start writing -Make sure to answer all (sub)questions Do not exceed the maximum number of words (n.b. these are the number of words excluding referencing)—you don’t have to use all words you have got either, but since all questions require that you develop an argument short answers will not do. Do a word count for each answer, add the number of words to each answer. – Read the literatures uploaded and answer the 2 questions written below. -Each question is based on the literature uploaded. -Always refer back to the literature -Reference in APA format (in-text) including the page number. READ: =Anna Clark, ‘The age of exploration. Sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica’ Desire. A History of European Sexuality. London/New York: Routledge, 2008.86-101, 237-240 =Peter N. Stearns, ‘Sex in an age of trade and colonies’ Sexuality in World History.London/New York: Routledge, 2009. 64-76. =Rebecca Overmeyer-Velázquez, ‘Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary’ Bodies in Contact. Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History.Ed. Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2005.67-83 Answer the following question: 1) Intertwined notions of race and sexuality played an important role at the start of the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. What notion of race/sexuality was important in Spanish society on the brink of conquest? Of what set of hierarchical relations was this notion of race/sexuality a part? How does it help explain the sexual history of the conquest? How did the set of hierarchical relations in which this notion of race/sexuality was embedded change in the course of the conquest and the early process of globalization during the ‘age of trade and colonies’ (1450-1750) of which it was a part? [500 words max, 10 points] Read: = Wellings, K., Collumbien, M., Slaymaker, E., Singh, S., Hodges, Z., Patel, D. and Bajos, N., 2006. Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective. The Lancet, 368(9548), pp.1706-1728. = include: Marxist analysis of globalization and sexuality 2) What is the focus of a Marxist analysis of globalization and sexuality? Can the findings of Kaye Wellings et al in ‘Sexual Behaviour in Context: A Global Perspective’ be explained by using a Marxist approach of globalization and sexuality? Explain why this is (not) the case. [500 words max, 10 points
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