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1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-240 | Prev:166-238
Note: Any student who has previously taken 166-106 Sexual Politics in 1995 is excluded from taking this subject.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year Coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the ways in which issues connected with the body and sexuality are socially and politically constructed
- understand the ways in which the construction of masculinity and femininity affects the learning and regulation of such areas of experience;
- apply a variety of feminist approaches to the analysis of these issues.
Content:
This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body and sexuality. The social construction of gender; analysis of transsexualism, reproduction and women's bodies through motherhood, reproductive technology, eating disorders. The social and political construction of sexuality; issues of sexual orientation, pornography, rape and sexual violence. Feminist perspectives including radical, psychoanalytic, post-modern feminism.
Assessment:
Essay work totalling 5,000 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-240 | Prev:166-238
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-240 | Prev:166-238
Note: Any student who has previously taken 166-106 is excluded from taking this subject.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the ways in which issues connected with the body and sexuality are socially and politically constructed
- understand the ways in which the construction of masculinity and femininity affects the learning and regulation of such areas of experience;
- apply a variety of feminist approaches to the analysis of these issues.
Content:
This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body and sexuality. The social construction of gender; analysis of transsexualism, reproduction and women's bodies through motherhood, reproductive technology, eating disorders. The social and political construction of sexuality; issues of sexual orientation, pornography, rape and sexual violence. Feminist perspectives including radical, psychoanalytic, post-modern feminism.
Assessment:
Essay work totalling 5,000 words.
* Note that CONTACT, NOTE, POINTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-240 | Prev:166-238
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p166) : Next:166-244 | Prev:166-220
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the ways in which issues connected with the body and sexuality are socially and politically constructed;
- understand the ways in which the construction of masculinity and femininity affects the learning and regulation of such areas of experience;
- apply a variety of feminist approaches to the analysis of these issues;
- develop the skills of argument and essay writing structure which will be a basis for further work in the social sciences.
Content:
Introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body and sexuality. The social construction of gender; analysis of transsexualism, reproduction and womens bodies through motherhood, reproductive technology, eating disorders. The social and political construction of sexuality; issues of sexual orientation, pornography, rape and sexual violence. Feminist perspectives including radical, psychoanalytic, post-modern feminism.
Assessment:
Two essays of 2,500 words each
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, PREREQUISITES differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p166) : Next:166-244 | Prev:166-220
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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