166-032 Sexual Politics

Formerly available as 166-239/339. Students who have completed 166-239 or 166-339 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually 25 points of first-year politics or first-year gender studies, see Prerequisites.

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 transsexualism, 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; and apply a variety of feminist approaches to the analysis of these issues.