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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-239/339 Sexual Politics

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 year

Coordinator:

Sheila Jeffreys

Prerequisite/s:

Normally 25 points of first year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year Coordinator.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

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 5000 words.
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