HSY2410

History of sexuality: 1800 to the present

(ART)

Bain Attwood

8 points + 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: The changing nature of sexuality in Australia, Britain and North America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The main topics will be the construction of masculinity and femininity, courtship and marriage, family and kinship networks, birth control, regulation in the private and public spheres, heterosexuality and homosexuality, the theorisation of sex, sexual reformers and the emergence of liberation movements.

Assessment: Document exercise (1500 words): 20% + Essay (2500 words): 40% + Examination (2 hours): 30% + Class participation: 10%