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166-032 Sexual Politics | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-239/339. Students who have completed 166-239/339 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Sheila Jeffreys |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year Politics. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the second/third year coordinator. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | Usually two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. Issues analysed in the subject include: transexualism, reproduction, eating disorders, pornography, sexual violence and sexual orientation. 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. |
Assessment | Two essays of 2000 words each. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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