Fall 2024 First-Year Seminar BC1294 section 001

ART, SEX & AMERICAN CULTURE

ART, SEX & AMERICAN CULTU

Call Number 00596
Day & Time
Location
TR 4:10pm-5:25pm
403 Barnard Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Pamela Cobrin
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

Sex is the ultimate forbidden public topic and yet from the New England Puritans' sermons to Bill Clinton's (in)famous affair, sex has often been publicly staged in dramatic, literary, religious, political, legal and social forums. In this seminar, we will explore how issues of sex and sexuality have insinuated themselves into the formation of American identity. We will examine texts from the seventeenth century to the present with a particular emphasis on the arts, politics and sex. Texts include Puritan sermons, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, literature from Margaret Sanger's birth control movement, and theoretical works by Michel Foucault, Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
Enrollment 16 students (16 max) as of 9:06AM Saturday, December 14, 2024
Subject First-Year Seminar
Number BC1294
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Note Barnard 1st Year Students Only
Section key 20243FYSB1294X001