WMN4180

Sex, power, self: feminist interventions in contemporary discourse

(ART)

Denise Cuthbert and Maryanne Dever

12 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: Contemporary feminist theorisings about the mutually constitutive concepts of /the body0, sexual and gender difference, together with notions of female subjectivity and /self.0 Anxieties concerning comparison, authenticity and identity which permeate debates about embodied consciousness, situated knowledges and /female experience0 through the study of three interconnected arenas - sex, power and self.

Assessment: Seminar participation: 20% + A short applied research task (2500-3000 words): 30% + A long research essay based on a seminar presentation, and on a topic relevant to the student0s research interests (5000 words): 50%