| How do we use categories of identity and difference? How does culture determine
how we perceive and perform gender and ethnic identity? Male/female, gay/straight,
East/West, black/white. We will look at constructions of gender and sexual
identity in various cultures and consider how they intersect with national
and ethnic identity. Literature and film will be our primary focus. We will
read Euripides' Bacchae, Forster's Passage to India and view
films like Boys Don't Cry and Europa Europa that problematize
sexual and gender identity. LIT SOC OTH |