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At the eve of the French Revolution, debates concerning sex and gender, identity and equality erupt and announce the stakes of the democracy to come. This course will ask how representations of femininity and masculinity are established in literature, politics and aesthetic discourses from the Enlightenment to today. Inversely, what are the strategies of resistance and transgression through which individuals can, in turn, define themselves? Topics will include writing the self, pleasure, gender as heuristic tool, and the intersection of sex, race and class, in texts ranging from travel narratives to memoirs, as well as in contemporary film.