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December 1, 11-12:30, 139 Memorial Hall E. 
Student writing workshop. Come prepared to make comments, asks questions, and suggest possibilties for revision.

December 8, 11-12:30, 139 Memorial Hall East.  
"Lets talk about . . . " Sasha Baron Cohen's film Bruno

 

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Lessie Jo FrazierDr. Marlon M. Bailey
frazierl@indiana.edu

Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor in History, Anthropology,
and Cultural Studies

 

 

 

Courses

Professor Frazier's teaching includes courses on transnational feminisms; gender, race and the erotics of imperialism; gender and sexuality in Latin America; theories of gender and sexuality; feminist perspectives on warfare and militarism; methodology; and gender and human rights.

 

G101 - Gender, Culture & Society
G300 – Gender Studies: Core Concepts & Key Debates
G410 – International Feminist Debates
G718 - Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of Globalization


 

Research

Professor Lessie Jo Frazier's work focuses on political culture in the AmCover Art for Gender and Sexuality in 1968ericas. She is particularly interested in the intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy. She has published on gender, nation-state formation, human rights, mental health policies, memory, poetics, activism, and feminist ethnography. She is currently writing a book on gender, sexuality, and political culture in Chile; a co-edited volume on gender and sexuality in a global 1968; as well as articles on Cold War POWs and masculinity (using film and oral history), and amnesia as a paradoxical form of agency (using queer theory). Professor Frazier's teaching includes courses on transnational feminisms; gender, race and the erotics of imperialism; gender and sexuality in Latin America; theories of gender and sexuality; feminist perspectives on warfare and militarism; methodology; and gender and human rights.

 

 

Salt in the Sand by Dr. Lessie Jo FrazierShe is the author of Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence and the Nation-State, in Chile, 1890-Present (Duke 2007) and co-editor of Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America Gender's Place by Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier (Ed.)(Palgrave 2002) and Love-In, Love-Out: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in 1968 (forthcoming 2010 with Palgrave).

 

Her research on political cultures of the Americas has focused on Chile and Mexico. On Chile, she is currently writing Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture. On Mexico, her collaborative research with Dr. Deborah Cohen has resulted in "Defining the space of the movement: "Defining the Space of Mexico 1968: Heroic masculinity in the prison, and women's participation on the campus and street"  (Hispanic American Historical Review 2003) and a book project extending that work on 1968 and its legacies in Mexican political culture.

 

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