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106-436 "Que(e)ries: Lesbian and Gay Theory" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p60) : Next:106-445 | Prev:106-433
Year 4 English.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Annamarie Jagose.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p60) : Next:106-445 | Prev:106-433
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p49) : Next:106-447 | Prev:106-431
Year 4 Cultural Studies.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Annamarie Jagose.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p49) : Next:106-447 | Prev:106-431
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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