Race and sexual politics
L Healey
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: First-year sequence in anthropology or women's studies or permission of head
The subject provides an analysis of the construction of the racial and sexualised `other' within contemporary and colonial cultures and problems arising from conceptions of race and sexual difference. It encourages students to look for the connections between race and sexual categories of difference and those of gender, class, ethnicity and nationality. Topics include the construction of racial and sexual stereotypes in science, art, colonial discourses; prostitution; AIDS; the nature of racial and sexual violence.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 65% * Examination (2 hours): 35%
Recommended texts
Frankenberg R White women, race matters: The social construction of whiteness 1993
Hooks B Yearning: Race, gender and cultural politics 1990
Pettman J Living in the margins: Racism, sexism and feminism in Australia 1992
Ramazanoglu C Feminism and the contradictions of oppression 1989