How do large-scale forces (such as economic change, law and social policy, social change, systems of oppression, media, globalization, the development of technology) shape and constrain people’s intimate lives? As you discuss the impact of large-scale forces in the specific cases listed below, also consider to what extent people exercise agency in the face of these forces.*
Address all of these cases:
1) Sex work
2) Forms of marriage: temporary marriage, arranged marriage (think of Embroideries), AND transpacific Vietnamese marriage
3) Sex, love, and/or romance as depicted in The Color Purple
4) Sexual revolutions
Please only use the Sources below (don’t find sources from the internet):
1. Lorena Garcia, Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity (New York: New York University Press, 2012).
2. Don Kulick, Travestí: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
3. Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries (New York: Pantheon Books, 2005).
4. Hung Cam Thai, For Better or for Worse: Vietnames International Marriages in the New Global Economy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008).
5. Film: ‘The color purple’
