sexuality

A couple of years ago, I started a new blog dedicated to my research on sex and sexuality called ThinkNaughty.com. Unfortunately, ThinkNaughty.com was swallowed whole when LeafyHost, my former webhost, collapsed last year. I still haven't been able to get the domain name unlocked or access to the files there.

Fortunately, I had a fairly recent backup when LeafyHost went under. Since it doesn't look like I'll be able to get control of my domain name back, I've decided to import the posts here. That means there's some slightly risque material on the site now, but nothing prurient or gratuitous, I promise -- this is research, folks, not porn.

This is where I, the blogger, ask you, the reader, for your input. I'd like to put together a booklist of works relating to sex and gender. Not non-fiction -- that'll come later -- but works of fiction that deal with these issues in interesting and useful ways, the kind of stuff you might assign a class on "Sex and Gender in Literature". For instance, Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God explores the the way blackness and womanhood shape the lives of both men and women in the rural South, as well as offering at least one avenue towards empowerment (as I recall -- it's been over 15 years since I read it). Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises deals with a particular kind of (Hemingwayian) emasculated masculinuty.