January

26 Introduction

Backgrounds: Heterosexuality and Its Inversions

28 Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

February

2 "Paragraph 175 of the German Imperial Penal Code"; Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, excerpts from  "Araxes" and Critical Arrow; John Addington Symonds, excerpt from A Problem in Modern Ethics; excerpt from the transcript of "The Trial of Oscar Wilde"; Edward Carpenter, excerpt from The Intermediate Sex

Toward a New Identity

4 E.M. Forster, Maurice; A Novel (Part I); Plato, excerpt from the Symposium

9 Maurice continued (Parts II and III)

10 Film Screening, Maurice.  Palamountain 303, 7:30-10:00. 

11 Maurice continued (entire novel, plus "Terminal Note")

16 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (Books I and II, 1-205)

18 Well continued (Book III, 209-73)

23 Well continued (277-end); ; "People V. Friede"; Esther Newton, "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman"

"Monstrous Debauchery and Superfluity of Naughtiness"

25 James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (Part One, 1-96); Baldwin, excerpt from "Preservation of Innocence"; Sigmund Freud, excerpt from "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality."  See the Encyclopedia Britannica on Freud's theories of Sexuality and Development.

March

2 Giovanni's Room continued (Part Two, 99-end)

4 Ann Bannon, Women in the Shadows (through Chapter 6, 1-103)

9 Women continued (104-end); Suzanna Walters, "As Her Hand Crept Slowly Up Her Thigh: Ann Bannon and the Politics of Pulp"; excerpt from United States Senate, "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in the U.S. Government"

Coming of Age/Queering the Self

11 Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (through "Numbers," 1-89)

Spring Break

23 Oranges continued (93-end); Dorothy Allison, "A Question of Class," from Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

25 Rose Tremain, Sacred Country (Part One--through page 89)

30 Sacred Country (through chapter 14, page 237)

April

1 Sacred Country (through the end)

6 Jim Grimsley, Dream Boy (1-123)

8 Dream Boy continued (124-end)

Silence = Death: AIDS, Art, and Activism

13 Allan Gurganus, Plays Well With Others (1-150)

15 Plays Well continued (150-237)

20 Plays Well continued (241-end)

22 Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (entire play).  Film Screening, Angels in the Wings, Palamountain 303, 8:00-9:00. 

27 Millennium continued; Encyclopedia Britannica entry on Mormonism (multi-paged--follow "next" to get the entire entry)

29 Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika (entire play)

May

4 Perestroika continued; last day of class

7 12-page essay due in my box by 4:30 p.m.  [Note that this is a Friday.]

11 FINAL EXAM (6-9)

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