114年第1學期-2731 Sex & Sexuality: Culture and Ideas 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
In-class	40	Attendance, Discussion, and Participation
Midterm	30	a creative project
Final	30	a creative project (e.g. debates or student create graphic works based on the course materials

教育目標

This course explores body, gender, and sexuality in pre-modern Western and Chinese cultural discourses. We will historicize gender, sexuality, and the body in the following sources: 1) Sex change and same-sex desire from Greco-Roman mythology and Galenic medical traditions; 2) Ambiguous Bodies in the Medieval and Early Modern Religious Iconography: Female saints and feminine Jesus; 3) yin/yang 陰陽 medical cosmology and representation of the feminine (female ghosts and fox women) in Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhi yi 聊齋誌異). We ask how these imaginative ideas of human anatomy and cultural expression of gender and sexuality challenge our understandings of what it means to be men and women today. Critical examination of these representations suggests that sex, gender, and sexuality were largely social and cultural constructions before modern biomedical knowledge about human bodies took hold. Upon completion of this course, students will: 1. Demonstrate a fair understanding of cultural discourses on gender and sexuality. 2. Exhibit a comprehension of the interdisciplinary approaches for analyzing gender, sex, and sexuality. 3. Demonstrate adequate written and oral communication skills within various formal and informal circumstances.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：3-0
上課時間：四/2,3,4[M242]
修課班級：國際學院1-4
修課年級：1年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

Gavin Francis. “Gender: The Two Lives of Tiresias”. In Shapeshifters: a doctor’s notes on medicine and human change. Wellcome: 2019, pp. 143-56.

Veronique Mottier. “Before Sexuality”. In Sexuality: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press: 2008, pp. 3-24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHDKk0rshtM

Gan Bao 干寶. In Search of the Supernatural搜神記: The Written Record. Translated by Kenneth DeWoskin, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. (selected passages)

Pu Songling蒲松齡. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 聊齋誌異. Translated by John Minford. Penguin Books, 2006. (“The Merchant’s Son” 賈兒, pp. 133-40; “Lotus Fragrance” 蓮香, pp. 211-28)

Susan Mann. “The Body in Medicine, Art, and Sport,” in Gender and Sexuality in Modern China. Cambridge University Press: 2011, pp. 83-94.


Viagra Craze: Does Medicine Makes the Man?
Susan Bordo. “Pills and Power Tools”. In Gender Relations in Global Perspective: Essential Readings. Edited by Nancy Cook.

Véronique Mottier. Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). (Chapter 1 Before Sexuality, pp. 3-24; Chapter 2 The Invention of Sexuality, 25-48).