Another Syllabus
January 5th, 2012 § 4 Comments
It is, perhaps, a symptom of teacheriness that I organize knowledge acquisition into syllabuses. “Knowledge acquisition” is not quite right. The syllabus is something more along the lines of “what would happen if”? I’ve been thinking about a class on sex, at once a survey (thus historical) and a dive into the libidinally and affectively difficult. Maybe an upper-level seminar. Let me know what other works you’d recommend, especially from Asia and Africa. (I know there are some great film selections, but I want to stick to books.)
Writing Sex
Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Anonymous, My Secret Life (abridged)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis
Georges Batailles, Story of the Eye
Anaïs Nin, Little Birds
Pauline Reage, Story of O
Samuel Delaney, Hogg
Kitty Tsui, Breathless: Erotica
Patrick Califia, Macho Sluts
Zane, Addicted
John Preston, Mr. Benson
Dorothy Allison – Skin
Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer
Sylvia Tamale – African Sexualities
Minal Hajratwala – Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Chapter 8: Body)
Monique Wittig – The Lesbian Body
Leslie Feinberg – Stone Butch Blues
Early David Maillu? Maybe some Meja Mwangi? I need to update my reading selections.