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| | Literature and Sexualities - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Through readings, class discussion and written assignments, students consider how literary representations of sexual identities are constructed and affected by cultural, historical, and social values. |
 | | Students critically examine what it means to acquire and develop a sexual identity (or to have one constructed for you), what it means to have an "accepted" sexuality, a "contested" or invisible one, and how other factors like class, ethnicity, race, and gender affect and contribute to representations of sexual identity in literature. |
 | | Writing the Sexual." It emphasizes the multiple ways in which writing and sexuality converge throughout history and in contemporary everyday life, how writing and the interpretation of writing is envisioned as sexual, and how sex is envisioned as a text that can (actually, must) be read into everyday and extraordinary cultural practices. |
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