SCY2031

Sexuality, gender and social relations

(ART)

Kirsten McLean

8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Second semester + Caulfield + Prerequisites: First-year SCY sequence or equivalent + Prohibition: COS2031

Synopsis: Theoretical positions that address sexuality and its linkages with gender, including social constructionist approaches, feminist positions, Foucauldian and postmodernist accounts and psychoanalytic views. These theoretical positions will be used to explore the social construction and regulation of sexualities and women0s and men0s gendered bodies; sexual diversity, sexual transgression and political contestation; the commodification and commercialisation of sexualised bodies; sexuality, domination and the eroticisation of violence in contemporary society.

Assessment: Essay (3000 words): 40% + Seminar presentation and summary (1000 words): 20% + One test (2 hours): 40%