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The authors describe their experiences teaching Sustainable Cities in North America, a course on both urban sociology and urban sustainability. This course brought students to Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, and then compared those cities with Minneapolis, Minnesota, on various dimensions of urban sustainability. After connecting this course to existing sociological scholarship on teaching urban sociology and travel–study abroad, the authors describe their course "in action": what they did, why it was (and was not) "green," and an assessment of the course, including postcourse actions and institutional changes that the course inspired. The authors conclude with a call for more "green" sociology courses and travel–study abroad courses as innovative and exciting ways to teach sociology and to further the discipline's commitment to ethical environmental actions.

A revised version of SA 28:1/80S11775/SWSA/1980/1363.

"Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions. It features perspectives that are intersectional, transnational, sex-positive, and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality including gender, race, class, ability, body size, religious identity, age, and, of course, sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions including medicine, religion, the state, and education shape sexual desires, behaviors, and identities. Sources of, and empirical research on, oppression are discussed, along with modes of resistance, activism, policy change, and sex positivity. The fourth edition also adds new user-friendly features for students and instructors. Keywords are highlighted and defined, and each chapter concludes with review questions to help students ascertain their comprehension of key points. There is also an online annotated table of contents to help readers identify key ideas and concepts at a glance for each chapter"--

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