Gender studies/love
Write a 5 page essay, on your choice of topic on any of the following pieces of literature or movie
Optional topics include: divine love, familial love, sapphic love
- Edrich’s Love Medicine
- Plato, Symposium
- Solomon’s Song of Songs
- The Love Songs of Sappho
- “Brother Sun, Sister Moon”
- Dead Man Walking
- Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
- Simone Weil,
- Waiting for God
- (“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies,”
- “The Love of God and Affliction,” And “Forms of the Implicit Love of God”
- Joseph Marshall, “Love” and “Compassion” from The Lokota Way
- “ Wings of Desire”
- “Beginnings,” “Strips,” and “Endings,” from Outside Lies Magic
- “Fried Green Tomatoes”
- Book I of Montaigne’s Essays
- Dante, La Vita Nuova
- Love in the Western World
- Oscar Wilde, “The Nightingale and the Rose”
