Hum 310 - An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender

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Washington University in St Louis

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When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the "history of sexuality and gender." Our aims are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts, and to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of "primary" texts on sexuality and gender. Some of the texts we read include: Aristophanic comedy; Plato's Symposium; the poetry of Sappho, Catullus and Propertius; the Satyricon of Petronius; the Letters of Abelard and Heloise; the Roman de la Rose; Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women; the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Lacan; Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; the Kinsey Reports; and Foucault's History of Sexuality.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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