Write a brief description of what class(es) are involved in your chosen topic.

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Week 8 – Heterosexism Assignment

Choose a topic below and discuss how sexuality played a role in the conflict.

• Sacred Band of Thebes/ Spartan military life – the role of the Greek military cultures and sexuality 400-280 BCE
• The Roman mos maiorum and laws on sexuality (Anti-homosexuality in ancient Rome) – 100 BCE – 400 CE
• The Church and sexuality – Middle Ages – 800 CE – 1100CE
• Renaissance and Sexuality – Italy and Germany -1380-1600 CE
• The Bible and homosexuality – 600 BCE – 100 CE
• The Nazis and the homosexual solution – 1933-1945
• The AIDS epidemic and its effects on American perceptions of homosexuality – 1979-1989
• Indigenous Americans and homosexuality (choose a tribe or tribes and demonstrate how their attitudes on sexuality differed greatly from modern ideas) – 100-1800 CE
• Ancient Egyptians and homosexuality – 3000 BCE – 400 BCE
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and homosexuality
• Any of your choosing with the professor’s approval

Instructions

Answer the following questions in number format (#1 – 6). 2-3 pages. APA format for in-text citations and bibliography only. 12 Font Times New Roman only.

All work must be properly cited and unless otherwise noted; do not include pure opinion.

• What made you choose the topic this week? What interested you about that period?
• Write a brief description of what class(es) are involved in your chosen topic.
• What attitudes about sexuality contributed to your conflict?
• How did the cultural ideals, values, and beliefs change or return to tradition during and after the conflict?
• How did the people involved in your conflict perceive sexuality? Has that changed or stayed the same in that culture in modern times?
• In what way did your culture’s ideas/conflict on sexuality influence modern American life and concepts of sex/gender/orientation?