Building first on the era's not-so-simple gender conventions, the course then follows how such identities dictate desires and relations and asks "What do men and women really want?" before tracing sexuality from the tame to the profane.
The heavy reading load won't surprise most English concentrators, and thought some of the more sexy standards have slipped in--Austen, Pope and Wollstonecraft--the rest is a spicy hodge-podge of theory, romance and out-and-out smut. Students can curl up with Onania one night and the next, with Pamela, a novel "suffused with palpitating breasts," according to Festa.
Medical texts and conduct books for men and women will showcase some of the more ridiculous takes on sex and gender at the time.
The class requires three five-page papers, a midterm and final, and of course, a frank disposition and the ability to appreciate dirty mouth.
--Matthew F. Quirk
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