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166-054 The Body and the State: New Approaches in Political and Legal Theory | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-434. Students who have completed 166-434 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Sheila Jeffreys |
Prerequisites | Admission to fourth year Honours in Political Science. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject looks at feminist and lesbian and gay political and legal theory on the body, sexuality and state regulation. It will consider issues at the cutting edge of change in the law and in feminist, queer and postmodern theory. These include cloning and genetic technology, the lesbian and gay family, bisexuality, paedophilia, cosmetic surgery and body modification. The seminar will use insights of theorists such as Shane Phelan, Carl Stychin, Ruthann Robson, Carol Pateman, Catharine MacKinnon, Judith Butler, Davina Cooper. It will consider the usefulness of the ideas of gender, choice and transgression, whether the body is real, and what constitutes sexual violence. Students who complete this subject should: be able to analyse critically different perspectives within political and legal theory on the body and sexuality; be able to critically assess the ways in which such issues as genetic technology, lesbian and gay rights are currently approached within legal theory and practice; be able to suggest change in these areas which will advance the human rights of women, lesbians and gay men. |
Assessment | A research essay of 5000 words. |
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