16.7 2nd and 3rd years Sheila Jeffreys. Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year co-ordinator. Second semester Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Upon completion of the subject students should:

• understand the ways in which lesbianism and male homosexuality have been constructed through sexology and legislation;
• understand the ways in which changing social and political contexts have shaped different forms of political organising by lesbians and gay men;
• be able to analyse critically contemporary controversies within lesbian and gay politics concerned with issues such as the gay gene, role-playing, theorising heterosexuality, racist sexual stereotyping, and erotica;
• be familiar with the theoretical and tactical differences between such varieties of lesbian and gay politics as gay liberation, lesbian feminism, queer politics;
• gain an awareness of the ways in which the politics of both heterosexuality and homosexuality affect the politics of personal life as well as wider social and political relations;
• gain the skills to integrate a developed understanding of the significance of sexuality into other subjects in the arts and the social sciences.

The impact of the sexological invention of homosexuality in the early twentieth century, the development of lesbian and gay political organising and theorising in Australia, the US and Britain, through to the impact of HIV/AIDS, the significance of Mardi Gras and queer politics. The theorising of such issues as sexual practice and gender difference that has been created in the new field of lesbian and gay studies and its dynamic relationship with lesbian feminist, queer and gay politics today. Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words. None, but the following is recommended reading: H Abelove et. al. (eds. ) The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. 16.7 Sheila Jeffreys. Second semester. Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week. Upon completion of the subject students should:

• understand the ways in which lesbianism and male homosexuality have been constructed through sexology and legislation;
• understand the ways in which changing social and political contexts have shaped different forms of political organising by lesbians and gay men;
• be able to analyse critically contemporary controversies within lesbian and gay politics concerned with issues such as the gay gene, role-playing, theorising heterosexuality, racist sexual stereotyping, and erotica;
• be familiar with the theoretical and tactical differences between such varieties of lesbian and gay politics as gay liberation, lesbian feminism, queer politics;
• gain an awareness of the ways in which the politics of both heterosexuality and homosexuality affect the politics of personal life as well as wider social and political relations;
• gain the skills to integrate a developed understanding of the significance of sexuality into other subjects in the arts and the social sciences.

The impact of the sexological invention of homosexuality in the early twentieth century, the development of lesbian and gay political organising and theorising in Australia, the US and Britain, through to the impact of HIV/AIDS, the significance of Mardi Gras and queer politics. The theorising of such issues as sexual practice and gender difference that has been created in the new field of lesbian and gay studies and its dynamic relationship with lesbian feminist, queer and gay politics today. Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words. None, but the following is recommended reading: H Abelove et. al. (eds. ) The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.