Required Texts
    **   photocopied volume of selected essays from the syllabus 
    **   Sexuality & Space; edited by Beatriz Colomina, Princeton
         Architectural Press, 1992.
    **   Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance;
         edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and
         Yolanda Retter, Bay Press, 1997.
    **   Nella Larsen, An Intimation of Things Distant: the Collected
         Fiction of Nella Larsen; New York, Anchor Books, 1992.

    The four books listed above are available for purchase at the Utrecht
    Bookstore (2nd floor, Champlain Bldg.), while the following title is
    only available at Prairie Avenue Bookstore, 
    Please ask for a copy reserved under my name: 
    **   Stud: Architectures of Masculinity; edited by Joel Sanders,
         Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.


    Course requirements:
    **   attendance at, and active participation in every class meeting
    **   preparation of materials prior to each class meeting 
    **   one short (5-10pp.) paper due on 1 October 1997
    **   one longer paper (10-15pp.) due on the last day of class (17
         December 1997

    As a small, discussion-based, research-oriented graduate seminar, this
    class will benefit from the intimate scale and conditions under which
    we will be working together.  This will be assured thanks to active
    participation and engagement with the materials and each other. 
    Please note that paper deadlines are non-negotiable, and therefore I
    will not accept papers after the date on which they are due.


    week 1    Introductory conversation
    10 Sept


    week 2    Gender, Architecture, Visibility
    17 Sept
         **   Haraway, Donna J. 1991. "'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary:
              The Sexual Politics of a Word". In Simians, Cyborgs, and
              Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York and London:
              Routledge.
         **   Wigley, Mark. 1992. "Untitled: The Housing of Gender". In
              Sexuality & Space.
         **   Grosz, Elizabeth. 1995. "Women, Chora, Dwelling". In Space,
              Time, and Perversion. New York and London: Routledge.

    week 3
    24 Sept   CLASS IS CANCELLED
         **   Screening: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
         **   Deutsche, Rosalyn. 1996. "Chinatown, Part Four? What Jake
              Forgets About Downtown," In Evictions: Art and Spatial
              Politics. Graham Foundation/MIT Press in Contemporary
              Architecture. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press.
         **   Boyer, M. Christine. 1996. "Crimes in and of the City: The
              Femme Fatale as Urban Allegory". In The Sex of Architecture,
              edited by Diana Argest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes
              Weisman. New York: Harry N. Abrams.


    week 4 
    1 Oct     PAPER DUE: Gender, Architecture, Visibility, or, The Crying
              Game


    week 5    Closets, Bathrooms, Showers
    8  Oct
         **   Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. "Epistemology of the Closet,"
              In Epistemology of the Closet.. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
              University of California Press.
         **   Urbach, Henry. 1996. "Closets, Clothes, disClosure".
              Assemblage 30:62-73.
         **   Edelman, Lee. 1996. "Men's Room". In Stud: Architectures of
              Masculinity.
         **   Thomas, Kendall. 1994. "Shower/Closet". Assemblage 22:80-81.


    week 6    Eligible Bachelors?
    15  Oct
         **   Screening: Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
         **   Miller, D.A. 1991. "Anal Rope". In Inside/Out: Lesbian
              Theories, Gay Theories, edited by Diana Fuss. New York and
              London: Routledge.
         **   Cohan, Steven. 1996. "So functional for its purposes: The
              Bachelor Apartment in Pillow Talk". In Stud: Architectures
              of Masculinity.
         **   Wagner, George. 1996. "The Lair of the Bachelor". In
              Architecture and Feminism, edited by Debra Coleman,
              Elizabeth Danze and Carol Henderson. New York: Princeton
              Architectural Press.

    week 7    Body Building
    22  Oct
         **   Colomina, Beatriz. 1994. "Mies Not". In The Presence of
              Mies, edited by Detlef Mertins. New York: Princeton
              Architectural Press.
         **   Robbins, Mark. 1997. "Mies and Me". American Academy in
              Rome, Installation/Performance.
         **   Ian, Marcia. 1996. "When is a Body Not a Body?  When It's a
              Building". In Stud: Architectures of Masculinity.

    week 8    Lesbian Haunts
    29  Oct   Screening: The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
         **   White, Patricia. 1992. "Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter:
              The Haunting". In Sexuality & Space.
         **   de Lauretis, Teresa. 1991. "Film and the Visible". In How Do
              I Look? Queer Film and Video, edited by Bad Object-Choices.
              Seattle: Bay   Press.
         **   Castle, Terry. 1993. The Apparitional Lesbian. New York:
              Columbia University Press.

    week 9    Dykes, Bars, Beaches, and Backrooms
    5  Nov
         **   Nestle, Joan. 1997. "Restriction and Reclamation: Lesbian
              Bars and  Beaches of the 1950s". In Queers in Space:
              Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance.
         **   Wolfe, Maxine. 1997. "Invisible Women in Invisible Places:
              The Production of Social Space in Lesbian Bars". In Queers
              in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance.
         **   Minkowitz, Donna. 1992. "See What the Girls in the Backroom
              Will Have". Village Voice, 30 June 1992, 34, 38.


    week 10   Shopping in the Streets
    12 Nov
         **   Friedberg, Anne. 1993. selections from:Window Shopping:
              Cinema and the Postmodern. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
              University of California Press.
         **   Nesbit, Molly. 1992. "In the absence of the parisienne...".
              In Sexuality & Space.
         **   Polchin, James. 1997. "Having Something to Wear: The
              Landscape of Identity on Christopher Street". In Queers in
              Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance.

    week 11   Cruising in the Streets
    19 Nov
         **   Chauncey, George. 1996. "Privacy Could Only Be Had in
              Public: Gay Uses of the Streets". In Stud: Architectures of
              Masculinity.
         **   Schulman, Sarah. 1997. "People and Their Streets, Places. In
              Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of
              Resistance.
         **   Patton, Cindy. 1996. "Conclusion: From Visibility to
              Insurrection, A Manifesto," In Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex
              Education Went Wrong. Durham and London: Duke University
              Press.
         **   Goldstein, Richard. 1997. "The Crackdown on Cruising".
              Village Voice, 1 July 1997, 36-38.


    week 12   Racism in the Streets
    TBA
         **   hooks, bell. 1992. "Representations of Whiteness in the
              Black Imagination". In Black Looks: race and representation.
              Boston:   South End Press.
         **   Alexander, Elizabeth. 1994. "'Can You Be BLACK and Look at
              This?': Reading the Rodney King Video(s)". Public Culture 7
              (1):77-94.


    26 Nov    CLASS IS CANCELLED-HAPPY THANKSGIVING

    week 13   CLASS IS CANCELLED-HAPPY CRITIQUE WEEK
    3  Dec

    week 14   Passing in the Streets
    10 Dec
         **   Larsen, Nella. 1992. Passing. In An Intimation of Things
              Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen. New York:
              Anchor Books.
         **   Butler, Judith. 1993. "Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's
              Psychoanalytic Challenge," In Bodies That Matter: on the
              discursive limits of "sex". New York and London: Routledge.
         **   Robinson, Amy. 1994. "It Takes One to Know One: Passing and
              Communities of Common Interest". Critical Inquiry 20 (Summer
              1994):715-736.


    week 15   Acting up in the Streets
    17 Dec
         **   Ingram, Gordon Brent, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda
              Retter. 1997. "Making Room: Queerscape Architectures and the
              Spaces of Activism". In Queers in Space: Communities, Public
              Places, Sites of Resistance.
         **   Sommella, Laraine. 1997. "This is about People Dying: The
              Tactics of Early ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers in New York
              City. In Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites
              of Resistance.

         FINAL PAPER DUE