16.7 4th year Annamarie Jagose. First semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:

• provide a detailed account of the historical development of the category 'homosexuality' and, by corollary, the category 'heterosexuality';
• negotiate the tenuous, but nevertheless persistent, differences between 'lesbian' and 'gay' without essentialising either category;
• articulate and develop queer perspectives on issues of critical currency; for example, theories of the body, of subject formation, of cinematic representation and spectatorship.

This subject provides an introduction to the expanding field of gay/lesbian theory. It discusses twentieth-century formations of homosexual identity and the challenges to those formations offered by the term 'queer'. It analyses the critical perspectives of the anti-homophobic position, moving between various topics such as the discourse of AIDS and the lesbian/gay interrogation of the sex/gender system; rereadings of canonical literature and the homoerotic address of the fashion industry. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Abelove H Barale M A Halperin D M eds The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader Routledge Fuss D ed Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories Routledge Warner M ed Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory Minnesota U. P. Course reader available from the department 16.7 4th year Annamarie Jagose. First semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:

• provide a detailed account of the historical development of the category 'homosexuality' and, by corollary, the category 'heterosexuality';
• negotiate the tenuous, but nevertheless persistent, differences between 'lesbian' and 'gay' without essentialising either category;
• articulate and develop queer perspectives on issues of critical currency; for example, theories of the body, of subject formation, of cinematic representation and spectatorship.

This subject provides an introduction to the expanding field of gay/lesbian theory. It discusses twentieth-century formations of homosexual identity and the challenges to those formations offered by the term 'queer'. It analyses the critical perspectives of the anti-homophobic position, moving between various topics such as the discourse of AIDS and the lesbian/gay interrogation of the sex/gender system; rereadings of canonical literature and the homoerotic address of the fashion industry. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Abelove H Barale M A Halperin D M eds The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader Routledge Fuss D ed Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories Routledge Warner M ed Fear Of A Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory Minnesota U P. Course reader available from the department