Sex, Gender, and Sexuality I

Harvard HDS

The course will explore the theoretical articulation of sex, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century theory, particularly in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. Readings may include texts by Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Hortense Spillers, Judith Butler, and others. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1572.