16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr S. Swain, Associate Professor C Sowerwine. Normally, 25 points of first-year History. Second semester Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial. On completion of this subject students should be able to: analyse the ways in which the body has been read differently in the past and the present; understand the construction of the bourgeois body, the modern gendering of the body, and the homosexual body; analyse the ways in which modern society represents the body and how this affects our bodies today. The human body is a social construction which has its own history. Beauty, desire, and even sex have been read into the body in different ways in the past. The subject explores the ways in which the body was read in earlier societies and how those readings changed. In particular, we examine the development of the bourgeois body, the nineteenth century's inscription of new, stricter genderings onto the body, and the concomitant development of the homosexual body. We explore the different readings of the body in recent and contemporary society, seeking to understand the slender body, the gay and lesbian body, and the gendered body of the late twentieth century. Tutorial participation (10%) and written work totalling not more than 5,000 words. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction. Tr. Robert Hurley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990 16.7 Dr S. Swain, Associate Professor C Sowerwine. Second semester. Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week. On completion of this subject students should be able to: analyse the ways in which the body has been read differently in the past and the present; understand the construction of the bourgeois body, the modern gendering of the body, and the homosexual body; analyse the ways in which modern society represents the body and how this affects our bodies today. The human body is a social construction which has its own history. Beauty, desire, and even sex have been read into the body in different ways in the past. The subject explores the ways in which the body was read in earlier societies and how those readings changed. In particular, we examine the development of the bourgeois body, the nineteenth century's inscription of new, stricter genderings onto the body, and the concomitant development of the homosexual body. We explore the different readings of the body in recent and contemporary society, seeking to understand the slender body, the gay and lesbian body, and the gendered body of the late twentieth century. Tutorial participation (10 per cent); written work totalling not more than 5,000 words (10 per cent). Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction. Tr. Robert Hurley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990