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. What titles would you recommend to someone, and why? What would you put on your imagined syllabus?

PS I'll ask about movies sometime soon -- but given the number of movies based on books, consider something a "book" if you've read it, a "movie" if you've only watched it.