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1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p98) : Next:131-208 | Prev:131-206
2. Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p23) : Next:131-220 | Prev:121-336
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr S. Swain, Associate Professor C Sowerwine.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year History.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Tutorial participation (10%) and written work totalling not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p98) : Next:131-208 | Prev:131-206
2. Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p23) : Next:131-220 | Prev:121-336
3. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p125) : Next:131-208 | Prev:131-206
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr S. Swain, Associate Professor C Sowerwine.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Tutorial participation (10 per cent); written work totalling not more than 5,000 words (10 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p125) : Next:131-208 | Prev:131-206
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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